If Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke were to decide to go on a bender before his news conference, at the conclusion of the central bank’s latest two-day policy meeting, here’s what The Washington Post would expect to hear:
Seriously, though, when are you going to taper?
[Smacks head]
When the time is right.
And when do you expect that to be?
Eh, the next few meetings. Maybe September. Maybe December. Maybe early next year. We’ll see.