Ok, Bernanke, and your point is???

Did today’s speech by the Fed Chairman fall on deaf ears, or is it just too little too late? Although he didn’t come right out with it, he hinted heavily at a possible rate cut, mentioning the ever dwindling consumer spending (well, what the hell, who has money to shop these days…we don’t even know if we’ll have jobs tomorrow for Christ’s sake) as well as the fact that “that the outlook for economic growth has worsened and that the downside risks to growth have increased” (duh) We all know the bleak outlook of the market when it closed today, so was the subtle undertone of the rate cut disregarded, or is there such pandamonium at this point that nobody notices or cares?