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- BNET Daily Dispatch: Blackstone, Toyota, Russia, and the Fed
- The Blackstone Group is in a deal to acquire Alliance Data Systems, a leading provider of transaction, credit, and marketing services, for $6.76 billion. This deal marks the second business services company buyout this week -- private equity firms are attracted to the sector because the companies tend...
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Bernanke to Defend Fed Role
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday will push back at efforts to curb the Fed's power as he goes before lawmakers considering his nomination to a second term at the central bank's helm.President Barack Obama nominated the former Princeton University economics professor to...
- News items 2009-12-02
- 5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
- The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
- Articles 2009-07-08
- Higher Mortgage Rates Could Snuff a Nascent Housing Recovery
- Housing finally had some good news this week. According to the National Association of Realtors, pending home sales rose 6.7 percent compared to March, the third consecutive increase and the largest jump since October 2001. The indicator was also 3.2 percent higher than in April 2008. Pending...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Fed Chairman Comes to Banks' Defense on New Credit-Card Rules
- A major power play is underway in Congress that will determine how soon you will get relief from abusive credit-card practices. The roundabout tussle pits U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, against Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Bernanke...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- The Real Price of Life in Bailout Nation
- Author and popular blogger Barry Ritholtz blasts Uncle Sam's massive economic intervention and warns that the cure for recession could be worse than the disease. What is the most common misconception about the crisis? That this was a perfect storm of...
- Articles 2009-05-29
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Bernanke on Financial Innovation vs. Regulation
- Ryan Avent submits: Ben Bernanke gave a speech today on the need to be careful in crafting financial regulations. An appropriate balance must be struck, he said, between consumer protections and the freedom to innovate. I don't think anyone wants to go back to the 1970s. Financial innovation has...
- External links 2009-04-18
- Financial Reform Effort in Danger of Splintering
- Sure was entertaining to see the nation's top financial regulators clashing over turf on Friday like hyenas scrapping over a bone. More seriously, it shows the cracks appearing in the Obama administration's campaign for financial reform. Testifying Friday before the House Financial Services Committee, Treasury Secretary Tim...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Bernanke says Fed acted in face of 'market stress'
- WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Reserve acted to cut rates and add liquidity to the financial system in recent weeks in the face of "significant market stress," chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday. Bernanke, in remarks prepared for delivery to Congress, said the economy and markets reacted to surpisingly large...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Bernanke: Rate cut to 'get out ahead' of credit crisis
- WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that the central bank is trying to "get out ahead" of financial markets with its larger-than-expected half-point interest rate cut this week. In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, Bernanke said a freeze-up in credit markets...
- Research articles 2007-09-21
- Bernanke to be in spotlight in first appearance as Fed chief
- WASHINGTON AFP — New Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will receive a likely baptism of fire in his first appearance before Congress this week amid conflicting views on the central bank's interest-rate policy. Just two weeks after replacing Alan Greenspan at the helm of the powerful US central bank,...
- Research articles 2006-02-14
- Bernanke makes first economic report as Fed chairman
- The U.S. economy performed impressively in 2005 and there are positive signs for both consumers and businesses in 2006, said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in testimony mid-February before the House Financial Services Committee. Bernanke, sworn in as the new Federal Reserve Board chairman on Feb. 6, predicted there will...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Bernanke spars with Demo
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, in his first clash with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, signaled the central bank will need to raise interest rates if inflation accelerates. Bernanke sparred with House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who said it was "troubling" the Fed...
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- Fed Chairman Bernanke offers Congress assurances on mortgage crisis
- WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday that the credit crisis has created "significant market stress" and offered fresh assurances that regulators would take steps to curb fallout related to the mortgage mess. Bernanke made the statement in testimony prepared for a hearing Thursday before...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Bernanke pledges to cut rates to shore up economy
- WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is ready to lower interest rates again to brace the wobbly economy even as zooming oil prices spread inflation, chairman Ben Bernanke signaled to Congress on Wednesday. He is fighting to keep the economy afloat after mighty blows from the housing and credit...
- Research articles 2008-02-28
- Insurers Shouldn't Play Blame Game With Taxpayers and AIG
- In the wake of the American International Group AIG disaster, insurers are not winning any congeniality contests. And it doesn't help when they start whining and blaming, of all people, the American taxpayers for their problems. But that's exactly what's happening in Washington. According to the Wall...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
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