Ben Bernanke: QE will be difficult for the ECB

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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke predicted that the European Central Bank (ECB) would have a rough time implementing U.S-style monetary easing.

Speaking Wednesday at the Schwab IMPACT conference, the ex-central bank chief said the ECB faces political barriers to enacting such an aggressive program.

"The barriers to doing it are not really economic," he said. "The legal and political barriers being thrown up are going to make it very difficult to do that."

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