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Chairman Benjamin Bernanke of the Federal Reserve Board was the newsmaker who inspired NBC and CBS to lead with the economy. He testified on Capitol Hill that he was hopeful "the we shall see positive growth by the end of the year." Bernanke ticked off a similar list to the one ABC's Betsy Stark covered Monday: an improving housing market, a selloff of business inventory, a revival of consumer spending. CNBC's Trish Regan suggested one potential problem on NBC, "a lack of jobs." On CBS, Chip Reid pointed to Bernanke's warning that "the stakes are so high on stabilizing the banks that failure to do so could stall this economic recovery." CNBC's Regan countered that legislators were criticizing Bernanke for working too hard to protect banks, delaying new consumer-protection rules against abusive credit card lending until July of 2010.
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