Federal Reserve ChairrnBen Bernanke appeared in an unprecedented interview on CBS' 60 Minutes last month, predicting that the recession will "probably" come to an end this year, "in the sense that this decline will begin to moderate and we'll begin to see leveling off."rnGovernment intervention likely averted what could have fast turned into another Great Depression, Bernanke said, and stabi- lization in financial markets will slow the pace of decline and eventually "set the basis for a recovery."
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