In his appearance Thursday before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke covered ground familiar to anyone who's paid attention to his past testimony about why ...

Explore Ben Bernanke's thoughts on the gold standard and its implications for price stability in everyday life. Discover the difference between gold price stability and living costs, and learn about ...

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 ...

Building on Ben Bernanke’s widely used recession probability model, we invented a better model using exactly the same ...

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faced mounting Senate opposition for another four-year term Friday, even as the White House described President Barack Obama as confident about his ...

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and two other U.S. academics whose work helped governments and central bankers navigate the global ...

Thanks for saving the world from a second Great Depression, Ben Bernanke! Now, what have you done for us lately? It’s actually a reasonable question. Bernanke was TIME’s Person of the Year 2009, and ...

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 ...

The three men who helped shepherd the U.S. through the 2008 Great Recession are worried that the country and Congress have not learned the right lessons from the last financial crisis — and may not ...

The indispensable Greg Ip, in today’s W$J, tries to explain what makes the Bernanke approach different from the Greenspan one: The Fed historically has had two ...

Former Fed chairs and U.S. Treasury secretaries also backed Ms. Cook’s retention, for now, warning of erosion in public confidence in the central bank’s independence. By Ann E. Marimow He was the No.

The filing, also signed by six former Treasury secretaries, said that letting President Trump fire Lisa Cook would deal a blow to the credibility of the nation’s monetary policy. By Adam Liptak Former ...