Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and multibillionaire Warren Buffett spoke to CNN Money about the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Bernanke, who cites the high rate of unemployment and exceedingly slow economic growth, said the protesters “blame with some justification the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess.”

Buffett said that though he believes a lot of the protesters are uninformed, “the feeling is real.” –BF

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