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The key event in central banking, and certainly the mind of the markets, for this week will be Ben Bernanke's "Jackson Hole speech" scheduled to take place Friday the 26th of August at 10am ET. The regular event is where US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, in 2010 introduced the idea of a second round of quantitative easing (aka QE2). Naturally this has driven a lot of speculation about what he may say this time