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.” ...

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.

Ben Bernanke presided over his first meeting as Federal Reserve chairman in March 2006 believing the nation's economy could pull off a "soft landing" from falling home prices. Three months later ...

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.

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 ...

Without Ben Bernanke, Time’s 2009 Person of the Year, it would have been a lot worse,” Stengel writes. “Bernanke didn’t just learn from history; he wrote it himself and was damned if he ...

Bernanke said he's sleeping better but it's "far too early to declare victory." March 27, 2012 — -- The U.S. economy is "stronger and more stable" than it was a year ago and the financial ...

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 ...

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 ...