Ben Bernanke is a former Federal Reserve chair, serving from 2006 to 2014. As Fed chair, Bernanke oversaw the central bank's response to the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.

Ben Bernanke on COVID-19 downturn: “With help from the Federal Reserve and from the Treasury, I’m not really expecting a major financial crisis.” ...

Former Federal Reserve Chairs Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, along with several other academics, market participants and ...

Q&A: Ben Bernanke 08:17. Whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates is a question former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is glad HE no longer has to answer.

Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in 2012, when he was still chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press) By Michael Hiltzik. Business Columnist Follow.

As the headline accompanying this piece makes plain, Ben Bernanke is worried. That the former Fed Chairman is worried explains why readers shouldn t be. Up front, dismissal of what s keeping ...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, who steered the central bank during the Great Recession, argued in a newly released paper that the Fed still has more work to do to bring inflation down.

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 ...

Come on, Ben Bernanke. You know better than this. It’s not surprising that the Wall Street and megabank types responsible for America’s financial meltdown should have been, but were not ...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke detailed two shortcomings of the central bank’s communication strategy and proposed that the Fed release a relatively brief ‘Economic Review’ once ...

Ben Bernanke is proving again this morning that he's the market's Johnny Cash.This man knows how to walk a line. The Federal Reserve chairman has certainly helped Wall Street rake in plenty of ...

Bernanke’s Contribution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Ben Bernanke analyzed the Great Depression of the 1930s, the worst economic crisis in modern history.“Among other things, he ...