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- Audit Would Hurt Economic Prospects: Bernanke
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday congressional proposals to audit the Fed and strip it of regulatory powers as part of post-crisis reforms could damage prospects for economic and financial health in the future."These measures are very much out of step with the...
- News items 2009-11-27
- Jobs Data Eyed, But Dubai is the Wild Card
- By Leah SchnurrNEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai, jobs data, Black Friday results and a chance for Congress to throw fireballs at Fed chief Ben Bernanke: The U.S. stock market's path to glory is fraught with peril next week.If Dubai's debt woes intensify and prompt a retreat from riskier assets, Friday's...
- News items 2009-11-27
- The Future of Investing
- Want to pick a date for the stock market to get back to its 2007 high? You may need a calendar that goes to 2017. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Bernanke Well Deserved Reappointment to the Fed
- It was really dismaying to read the stream of vitriol that followed President Obama's decision to reappoint Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve. I think history will show that Bernanke was a true hero whose out-of-the-box thinking saved the global economy from collapse. The criticism...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Update: Should Ben Bernanke Serve A Second Term? Economists Say Yes
- This post was updated August 12, 2009 Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Benjamin Bernanke reaches the end of his four-year term in January. The position is appointed by the president, rather than elected, but Bernanke nonetheless has started a 2010 campaign, of sorts, with a town-hall meeting in...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Upbeat News in Profit Reports
- Stocks jump on earnings surprises from an industrial equipment manufacturer and a big toymaker. Plus: Ben Bernanke sounds a warning about deep U.S. debt.
- Videos 2009-10-19
- Ben Bernanke: What Caused the Financial Crisis?
- In a rare interview with a sitting Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke tells 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley what went wrong with America's financial system and how it caused the current economic crisis.
- Videos 2009-06-07
- Asia Stocks Retreat, Dollar Pressured
- By Yoo ChoonsikSINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian stocks surrendered early gains on Tuesday as investors took profits from recent gains, while the dollar was pinned near 15-month lows after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeated the central bank was likely to keep interest rates at very low levels for some time.Gold...
- News items 2009-11-16
- Audit Would Hurt Economy - Bernanke
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday congressional proposals to audit the Fed and strip it of regulatory powers as part of post-crisis reforms could damage prospects for economic and financial health in the future."These measures are very much out of step...
- News items 2009-11-28
- 60 Minutes: Ben Bernanke's Greatest Challenge - Part 2
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke candidly speaks to Scott Pelley about his personal life, as both visit his old high school and how the current financial crisis is affecting Main Street America.
- Videos 2009-03-18
- Ram Charan Grades the President
- The influential management guru gives President Obama and his team high marks for their management of the economic crisis and discusses what the auto industry must do to right itself. Think of the Obama administration...
- Articles 2009-04-23
- Bernanke, Federal Reserve Wrong for the Job
- Desperation in job seekers isn't a pretty sight. The nervous laughter, the excessive eagerness to please. Why, you can almost see Ben Bernanke's eyes darting around as he spoke this morning at a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston event. You see, the Fed chairman is rather eager...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- 60 Minutes: Ben Bernanke's Greatest Challenge - Part 1
- If you think your job is tough, consider Ben Bernanke's. As Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the task of reviving the U.S. economy falls largely on his shoulders. Scott Pelley has the interview.
- Videos 2009-03-18
Additional Resources
- Bernanke & Paulson Need to Create a Mortgage Specialist Fund
- Jason Schwarz submits: Mortgage securities have grown into a $14 trillion asset class. We have painfully learned how dependent our stock market is upon these illiquid debt obligations. Many, including myself, have voiced the solution to temporarily eliminate mark-to-market accounting requirements in order to give these securities time to recover...
- External links 2008-09-25
- Regulatory agencies' revolving door drives imminent change.(Ben Bernanke joined Federal Reserve Board)(William McDonough leaves Public Company Accounting Oversight Board)(William Donaldson, Donald Nicolaisen and Alan Beller left Securities and Exchange Co
- Last year (2005) was one of tremendous change in the regulatory world--and not just for those in financial accounting and reporting rule-making. Beyond Sarbanes-Oxley year two, focus on the small business issuer and rating agency, tax and pension ref Last year (2005) was one of tremendous...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Financial Roundup: New Credit Card Rules, Private Equity Eyes Banks, Bernanke Uses Same Old Ratings Agencies, Small Banks Up Tech Buys, and More
- Credit card rules approved -- The Federal Reserve Board has approved a host of new credit card rules that, effective July 1, 2010, would protect consumers from unexpected interest charges, forbid "two-cycle" billing schemes and allow customers a reasonable amount of time to pay their bills. While consumer advocates criticized...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- Legislators Debate "Fair Value" Again -- But Don't Expect a Suspension of the Accounting Rule
- There's yet another hearing on "fair value" accounting today, this time in the House subcommittee on capital markets. But don't expect a suspension of the rule that requires to mark-to-market valuation of financial instruments held by financial institutions. Earlier this week, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Six Ways to Fix the Fed
- Benign Brodwicz submits: The Benign Brodwicz program, as of July 19, 2009 short of dismantling the Fed and starting over again: No more too big to fail. The Economist published a survey of banking a few years ago that cited research showing that size over about...
- External links 2009-07-21
- Will There be an SEC Next Year?
- An era has ended at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. No longer will the regulatory agency rely upon "voluntary" self-policing at financial institutions. SEC Chair, Christopher Cox, now under intense fire for the SEC's role in the Wall Street meltdown, has ended the so-called Consolidated Supervised...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Stock Index Futures Signal Dip After Rally
- (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a slightly lower opening on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.27 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.18 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.25 percent. Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc TWX said on Monday it will...
- News items 2009-11-17
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