If 9 percent of Ben Bernanke’s friends were unemployed, I bet his hair would be on fire. If 9 percent of Richard Fischer’s friends were unemployed, he wouldn’t be criticizing Bernanke from the right. But they’re not.
Key decision-makers throughout the economy are oddly insulated from the misery afflicting young people and huge swathes of the working class.
http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=pre_occupied