Grayson Grilling Bernanke On Half A Trillion In Foreign Liquidity Swaps And The Constitutional Basis For Such

Grayson asks Bernanke about the $550B (as of 12/31/08) in liquidity swaps with foreign central banks. Who got the money? How did the Fed lend this much money without the consent of Congress? Did these loans push up the value of the dollar?

• At minute 1:30, Bernanke can’t say which financial institutions got the money.
  
• At minute 3:19, Bernanke says that the 30% rise in the dollar which took place at the same time as the Federal Reserve lent out $500B to foreign central banks was just a coincidence.
  
• At minute 3:45, Bernanke and Grayson discuss the Constitutional basis for the Federal Reserve lending a half a trillion dollars to foreigners.
  

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