Ben S. Bernanke may need to arrange a lot more meet-and-greet opportunities with the public: The Federal Reserve comes in dead last in a new poll of Americans’ perceptions of how good a job nine government agencies are doing.
The Gallup Poll found that just 30% of respondents rated the Fed’s performance either “good” or “excellent.” Thirty-five percent rated the central bank’s performance “only fair” and 22% gave the Fed a “poor” rating. (The rest, 13%, were honest enough to say they had no opinion.)
The eight other U.S. agencies tracked by the poll all received higher combined good/excellent ratings than the Fed. No. 1 on the list: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which 61% of respondents said was doing a good or excellent job.
The Fed even was outranked by Homeland Security, which got a 46% good/excellent rating, and by the IRS, at 40%.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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