macroeconomic advisers' antulio bomfim says the best word to describe the market's reading of bernanke's testimony-- "sobering." >> it reinforces, to a degree, the sense of worry about the economy. so, not a whole lot of... if you are a market participant, you don't come out of this with a very strong feeling. >> reporter: bomfim says bernanke's testimony was filled with reason after reason for worry about the economy. topping the list was sluggish job growth. then, there's the possibility of financial contagion following a collapse in europe. even so, the fed chairman did not signal another rou of bond buying -- what markets call "qe-3"-- would be coming soon. >> we never take anything off the table, because we don't know where the economy's going to go, we can't forecast what might happen in the future. but we have no immediate plans to do anything like that. >> reporter: why not? because the fed has already gone much further than former fed officials like bomfim thought it would ever have to go. >> so they are taking very aggressive action. >> reporter: the fed has already pledged to