Reagan debate's biggest loser: Ben Bernanke

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich agree on at least one thing: Ben Bernanke has got to go.

Both Republican presidential candidates said at the POLITICO/NBC debate that they wouldn’t reappoint the Fed chair – whose policies Rick Perry also described as “almost treasonous.”

“I’d be looking for somebody new,” Romney said, explaining that the Fed’s quantitative easing policy “did not work, it did not get Americans back to work, it did not get the economy going again.”

Gingrich, who spoke first, was more emphatic, saying of Bernanke: “I’d fire him tomorrow.”

“I think the Fed should be audited,” he said. “I think his policies have deepened the depression, lengthened the problem.”

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