Fed Chairman Bernanke says the Federal Reserve is not printing money.

Test: before 5 April 2011, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke publicly stated that the Federal Reserve was not printing money, or used equivalent wording such as 'not printing money' or 'not monetizing'. Whether that statement was correct is not being judged. - True: a transcript or recording shows Bernanke making such a statement in the relevant period (about 2010 to early 2011), for example in an interview, testimony or speech. - Mostly true: he made the statement with qualifications (e.g., 'not in the sense people think'). - Mixed: his public statements in that period were contradictory. - Mostly false: he only made remarks that could loosely be read as denying money printing. - False: records of his statements from that period show he instead described the Fed's actions as printing money and never denied it.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Ben Bernanke speaks to two audiences on "60 Minutes" Marketplace (American Public Media) · 6 December 2010

   “We’re not printing money. The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.”

2. E2 Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's Take On The Economy CBS News · 3 December 2010

   “One myth that's out there is that what we're doing is printing money. We're not printing money.”

3. E3 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE U.S. Congress (Congressional Record)

   “It’s much more akin to printing money”

CBS News (E2, dated 3 December 2010) quotes Bernanke: "One myth that's out there is that what we're doing is printing money. We're not printing money." That is a direct public denial within the relevant period and before 5 April 2011. E3, a 2009 Congressional Record line saying the Fed's action was "much more akin to printing money," is undated in the evidence, does not name Bernanke as the speaker in the quote, and falls outside the 2010–early 2011 window, so it does not make his statements in that period contradictory.