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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Christopher Cox Comes Out Swinging; Slams Bernanke And Paulson
- Wow, guess Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke won't be spending Christmas at Christopher Cox's party tonight? The outgoing SEC chief, whose agency was under extreme fire since well before the Bernie Madoff affair, used an interview with the Washington Post to defend his reputation and lay some blame on the...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Markets, financial analysts, economists, pundits, and really, just about everybody, reacted favorably to President Bush's appointment of Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed
- Markets, financial analysts, economists, pundits, and really, just about everybody, reacted favorably to President Bush's appointment of Ben Bernanke to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed. Liberals exulted that Bush had not picked a supply-side crazy, their evidence being that some supply-siders had criticized Bernanke. But supply-siders disagree among themselves...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- Ben Bernanke's Outlook for the Economy
- A few quick reactions to Ben Bernanke's speech today where he talks about something of concern recently--namely, how the Fed will view changes in the value of the dollar. If the dollar begins to fall, that will increase the price of imported goods and materials used in...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Bernanke and Obama Start to Relax, so It’s Time to Get Nervous
- One of the best contrarian plays is to buy stocks when the economy is recognized by the Establishment to be in a recession. By the time that the government and media acknowledge the dire truth, investors are well aware of it and have gotten their selling out of the way....
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- The Authoritative Work on the Great Depression by Fed Chair Ben Bernanke
- PRINCETON, N.J. -- "The financial crisis has made Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's book ESSAYS ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION a hot seller...Bernanke, a former Princeton University economist, is considered the pre-eminent living scholar of the Great Depression. He is practicing today what he preached in his book: Flood the system...
- Research articles 2008-10-22
- Tough Love from Ben Bernanke
- Tim Iacono submits: Well, it seems as though Fed Chief Ben Bernanke has "grown a pair" over the last six months, today's FOMC meeting having come and gone with nary a hint of coddling for financial markets - that is, financial markets that many feel are in the middle...
- External links 2008-09-16
- New fed guys - Off The News - Donald Kohn - Ben Bernanke - Brief Article
- With the appointment of two economists--former Federal Reserve staffer Donald Kohn and former Princeton professor Ben Bernanke--to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, financial markets have begun fixating on the new appointees' effect on the decision making dynamic of the institution. The inside thinking is that it is...
- Research articles 2002-09-22
- Commentary: Bernanke's master plan doesn't help tame inflation
- We hear a good deal about Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve, but what exactly is the Fed's job, and why should entrepreneurs and investors care? As Fed chairman, Bernanke obviously is an economic big shot. After all, global markets and the financial press hang on his every...
- Research articles 2008-05-16
- 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
- Warren Buffett: The Financial Panic is Over
- By Jonathan Stempel and Clare BaldwinNEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett, perhaps the world's most admired investor, said on Thursday the financial panic that gripped the globe last year is a thing of the past, even as the U.S. economy's struggles persist."The financial panic is behind us," the world's second-richest...
- News items 2009-11-12
- The Financial Panic is Over - Warren Buffett
- By Jonathan Stempel and Clare BaldwinNEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Warren Buffett, perhaps the world's most admired investor, said on Thursday the financial panic that gripped the globe last year is a thing of the past, even as the U.S. economy's struggles persist."The financial panic is behind us," the world's...
- News items 2009-11-12
- The Financial Panic is Over - Warren Buffett
- By Jonathan Stempel and Clare Baldwin NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - Warren Buffett, perhaps the world's most admired investor, said on Thursday the financial panic that gripped the globe last year is a thing of the past, even as the U.S. economy's struggles persist. "The financial panic is behind us,"...
- News items 2009-11-12
- 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
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