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BEN BERNANKE

A long-time economics professor at Princeton, Ben S. Bernanke became the nation's chief banker as chairman of Federal Reserve System in February of 2006. Critics say he was slow to react to the market meltdown, but Bernanke has led some of the most interventionist and controversial Fed actions in its history.

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Bernanke Says Crisis Highlights Need for Financial Literacymore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the recent economic crisis highlights the importance of financial...

Jackson Hole May Disappoint Investors Primed for Stimulusmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke -- returning this week to the scene of a 2010 speech that foreshadowed a...

Ben Bernanke says high unemployment means that the Fed can do moremore

 JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. -- Chairman Ben Bernanke made clear Friday that the Federal Reserve will do more...

The Fed's Stimulus Starts To Work—Three Years Latermore

Call it slow-release stimulus: More than three years after the Federal Reserve first began "quantitative...

At Jackson Hole, Ben Bernanke hints, but offers no certainty of action...more

In Jackson Hole, Wyo., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that the central bank intends to act forcefully to...

Yellen’s Focus on Unemployment Adopted by Fed After Crisismore

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen has fought for more than a decade to put attacking unemployment and boosting...

Bernanke to Push QE While Citing Jobs to Defend Easingmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will probably take two lessons from better-than- forecast job growth: his...

Bernanke Says Interest on Reserves Would Be Main Tightening Toolmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the Fed will raise the interest rate on excess reserves as its primary...

Jackson Hole Paper: True Cause of High Unemployment Is Basic Economic ...more

A paper presented at the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference argued that the current high unemployment stems from a shortage...

Bernanke Wields New Tools to Reduce Unemployment Ratemore

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke moved the Federal Reserve further into uncharted policy territory in combating joblessness by...

Yellen’s Focus on Unemployment Adopted by Fedmore

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen has fought for more than a decade to put attacking unemployment and boosting...

Bernanke Defends Asset Buying as Benefits Outweigh Risksmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended the central bank’s unprecedented asset purchases, saying they are...

Bernanke-Draghi: Jackson Hole vs. Leen’s Lodgemore

Five years into the financial crisis, the exit for central banks from their stimulus efforts is nowhere in sight and...

Fed Undertakes QE3 With $40 Billion Monthly MBS Purchasesmore

The Federal Reserve said it will expand its holdings of long-term securities with open-ended purchases of $40 billion...

Bernanke Says Housing Market Is Recovering After Hitting Bottommore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. housing market is on the road to recovery.

Bernanke Seen Pressing On With Stimulus Amid Debate on QEmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his fellow policy makers will probably forge ahead with their...

Bernanke Says Nationals Offer a Lesson for Washingtonmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said America’s capital city should take a leadership lesson from the...

Fischer Channels Fed in Changing Bank of Israel Focus to Growthmore

During his two decades at MIT, Stanley Fischer helped educate both the future heads of the Federal Reserve and the...

Bernanke: Fed will be ‘forceful’ in supporting rec...more

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Friday in Jackson Hole that the central bank plans to respond forcefully...

Bernanke Says Fed to Be Flexible on QE as Assets Risemore

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve would alter its monthly bond buying in response to gains in the job...

Bernanke tackles critics of Fed's growth pushmore

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday delivered a broad defense of the U.S. central bank's controversial...

Bernanke to Reiterate Fed Minutes at Jackson Hole, El-Erian Saysmore

Ben S. Bernanke probably won’t provide specific plans for further monetary action at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas...

FRB: Speech--Bernanke, Early Childhood Education--July 24, 2012more

Thank you very much for the opportunity to address you today. I'm especially pleased as an economist and policymaker to...

Fed Chief Bernanke's Father Diesmore

WASHINGTON--Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's father, a retired pharmacist, died Wednesday. Philip Richard...

Economist's View: The Problem is Lack of Demandmore

The chair of Bush's Council of Economic Advisors, Ed Lazear, says that the unemployment problem is not structural, it's...

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