Is Ben Bernanke practicing ‘trickle-down monetary policy’?

Published September 20, 2013 12:00am ET



Stock markets rallied when the Federal Reserve made it clear it wouldn’t stop its practice of buying bonds with brand-new money. Stock markets have done well for the past few years, but employment, wages and new business formation haven’t.

Stanley Druckenmiller, a very successful investor and major Republican donor, said on CNBC that Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s love of quantitative easing is driving that dynamic.

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