Ben Bernanke Turned Down for Mortgage Refinancing

You know it’s bad when a former chairman of the Federal Reserve can’t even get a loan. Ben Bernanke revealed yesterday that he was turned down for a refinance loan. From Bloomberg:

The former Federal Reserve chairman, speaking at a conference in Chicago yesterday, told moderator Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics Inc. — “just between the two of us” — that “I recently tried to refinance my mortgage and I was unsuccessful in doing so.”

When the audience laughed, Bernanke said, “I’m not making that up.”

“I think it’s entirely possible” that lenders “may have gone a little bit too far on mortgage credit conditions,” he said.

Maybe perhaps he will also notice that food prices have gone up now that he is no longer Chairman.

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