GOLD!
Bernanke simply can not stop raising rates UNTIL the Gold Market has stabilized... And THAT could take a while because of high debts, deficits, administation incompetence, ill advised tax cuts, hyper liquidity globally including at the Bank of Japan, and last but not least the Wars...
Gold is really a proxy for all of the 'bad stuff' above...and right now, the 'bad stuff' is winning.
If Bernanke quits now it would be 1979 all over again...