Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be speaking about how some of the financial strains in Europe have eased.

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And speaking at a meeting of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted the central bank's efforts to halt foreclosures.

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Tuesday's announcement came ahead of a speech by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who will be speaking to economists in the early afternoon in Washington on the U.S. economy and markets.

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Ben Bernanke is more than just the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, intellectually speaking, he is a student of the Great Depression, as every investor knows.

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Speaking to the House Budget Committee, Baghdad Ben not only claimed that there is no evidence of overall inflation in the U.S., but that even food and energy prices are rising less than 1% annually.

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Most daringly, there is a performance by another tenor giant, Ben Webster, which is strictly speaking not a vocal at all, but a recording of Webster rehearsing a big band in one of his own compositions.

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On Feb. 29, the metal fell when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke did not offer any hints for a third round of quantitative easing (QE3) when speaking before Congress.

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