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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a term in chess called zugzwang, which describes the point in a game when it’s your turn to move but every move you could make would worsen your situation. That’s pretty much what the ...

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 ...

Even if you credit Ben Bernanke with working miracles in 2008, his later actions messed the nation up for decades. AP Ouch: The Nobel Prize in Economics for former Fed chief Ben Bernanke may be one of ...

(D-Ill.), who afterwards said he had some concerns but repeated his support. “During the darkest days of this economic recession, when this country was teetering on the brink of a depression, this man ...

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 ...

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 ...