But I think he should have seen it coming,". In congressional testimony, Bernanke has placed much of the blame for the 2008 financial meltdown on lax governmental regulation of banks and other entities as authorized by Congress, rather than the monetary policy he oversaw.

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The Federal Open Market Committee meets about every six weeks or so and they decide on monetary policy.

联邦公开市场委员会,没六周左右开会一次,并且制定货币政策。

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So he has been working on trying to find other tools of monetary policy.

所以，他一直在寻求找到,货币政策的其他工具。

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The other but more commonly used monetary policy is to change the rate is to effectively alter the rate of interest on deposits.

另一种形式，更广泛地被运用着,是货币政策是用来改变比率,有效地调整存款的利率水平。

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