Bernanke made a speech this morning to other central bankers, economists and journalists at an annual forum in Jackson Hole. There were a number of key phrases Fed watchers were expecting to hear and, ...
Brad DeLong seems to have dug up what Dr. Bernanke thought about fiscal deficits before he discovered the global savings glut ... namely, structural fiscal deficits tend to raise real interest rates.
Most Americans, understandably, know Ben Bernanke as the person who was head of the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 (aka the Great Recession), and who took extraordinary ...
Having an individual, a company or a central bank willing to lend to banks is crucial in responding to financial panics,Former chairman of the Federal Reserve and former economics department chair of ...
Susan Walsh/APBen Bernanke on Friday as he left the Federal Reserve for the last time as chairman. After eight years in office, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has left the building. Over the ...
Ben Bernanke’s comments about the recession and his reasons for believing that the economy has hit bottom could have been a mimeograph of a dozen other speeches made by Fed chairmen testifying before ...
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been praised for averting another Great Depression and accused of acting too late to prevent the financial crisis. But most agree that many of ...