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, ...

President Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term. Mr. Obama made calls from the ...

Commentary: Managing money policy with public finances on an unsustainable path will put Kevin Warsh in an unenviable ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be nominated to a second term by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, according to media reports. {mosads}The nomination comes after the Federal Reserve under ...

The review was launched last summer to assess the Bank's struggles to accurately project the huge global spike in inflation following Russia's full-fledged invasion of Ukraine. Economists believe ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, yet again, publicly called for spending (ADDING: deficit spending, I ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke came unusually close to guaranteeing interest rate cuts Thursday. In a speech about the housing market, he said the Fed stands ready to act to support economic ...

Stephen Spruiell is a staff writer for National Review, where he covers politics, policy and economics. Unlike most of the fights in Washington these days, the unexpected trouble over Fed Chairman Ben ...