At big-ticket dinners, a blunt Bernanke sounds theme of low rates

[Fragile Bill]

"At least one guest left a New York restaurant with the impression Bernanke, 60, does not expect the federal funds rate, the Fed's main benchmark interest rate, to rise back to its long-term average of around 4 percent in Bernanke's lifetime, one source who had spoken to the guest said."

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