{"id":6913,"date":"2009-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/q-and-a-sen-merkley-on-bernanke-confirmation-vote\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:30","slug":"q-and-a-sen-merkley-on-bernanke-confirmation-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/q-and-a-sen-merkley-on-bernanke-confirmation-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Preguntas y respuestas: Senador Merkley sobre el voto de confirmaci\u00f3n de Bernanke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El senador Jeff Merkley de Oreg\u00f3n se convirti\u00f3 hoy en el primer dem\u00f3crata del Senado en anunciar un voto en contra de la nominaci\u00f3n del presidente de la Reserva Federal, Ben Bernanke, para un segundo mandato. Habl\u00f3 con nosotros sobre su decisi\u00f3n antes de la votaci\u00f3n del jueves del Comit\u00e9 Bancario del Senado sobre la confirmaci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p>Bernanke es el candidato del presidente Obama para presidente de la Fed. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 votas en su contra?<\/p>\n<p>Realmente se remonta a la participaci\u00f3n del Dr. Bernanke en el curso del desarrollo de la burbuja econ\u00f3mica y realmente en sus funciones en el Consejo de Asesores Econ\u00f3micos y su funci\u00f3n como miembro de la junta de la Fed y luego como presidente. Me apoy\u00f3 mucho mientras se desarrollaban muchas cosas que allanaron el camino a este colapso econ\u00f3mico. Esencialmente, esa era una filosof\u00eda que miraba a la salud de Wall Street como clave para una econom\u00eda exitosa en lugar de mirar a la salud de las finanzas familiares estadounidenses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfNo cree que el Congreso y muchos otros legisladores tambi\u00e9n merecen algo de culpa por lo que llev\u00f3 a esto, en lugar de echarlo sobre los hombros de Bernanke?<\/p>\n<p>No creo en nada de lo que he dicho o escrito, que le dar\u00eda toda la responsabilidad. Pero creo que es importante tener en cuenta que fue durante el tiempo en que se desempe\u00f1\u00f3 en estas funciones, que los derivados tuvieron un crecimiento exponencial, que se desarroll\u00f3 la pr\u00e1ctica de sobornos a los corredores hipotecarios para que les pagaran para atrapar a las personas en pr\u00e9stamos de alto riesgo. Fue durante este per\u00edodo que el comercio por cuenta propia se expandi\u00f3 significativamente. Fue durante este per\u00edodo que la titulizaci\u00f3n y la retitulizaci\u00f3n de paquetes hipotecarios que involucraban pr\u00e9stamos que no hab\u00edan sido documentados y no fueron encontrados procedieron a crear b\u00e1sicamente una profunda debilidad en las instituciones financieras en todo el mundo. Fue en este per\u00edodo que se elevaron los \u00edndices de apalancamiento en los cinco bancos m\u00e1s grandes de Estados Unidos. Todas estas cosas fueron factores que esencialmente Bernanke apoy\u00f3 o no defendi\u00f3 ni expres\u00f3 preocupaciones. Realmente ten\u00eda un asiento de primera fila sobre los factores que llevaron a esta burbuja. Hay mucha responsabilidad que asignar a otros lugares, pero no se nomina a otros partidos. Esta es la nominaci\u00f3n de Bernanke.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Javascript:openWin('http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2009\/12\/16\/qa-sen-merkley-on-bernanke-confirmation-vote\/');\"><strong>Leer m\u00e1s-&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon today became the first Senate Democrat to announce a vote against Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke&rsquo;s nomination for a second term. He talked with us about his decision ahead of Thursday&rsquo;s Senate Banking Committee vote on confirmation: Bernanke is President Obama&rsquo;s nominee for Fed chairman. 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