It seems likely the mortgage-backed securities will be on the Fed’s balance sheet until they finally mature. In the meantime, ...

Mr. Bernanke has agreed to speak with a Middle Eastern bank, private equity firms and trade associations, as well as at investment bank get-togethers, charging his hosts fees that range from ...

(JTA) — Ben Bernanke, the Jewish former chairman of the federal reserve, shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with two other scholars for their work in examining how banks function in economic ...

This one seemed particularly important, since it seems pretty devastating to the claim that there is much potential for any upside once these securities have been purchased: Chairman Bernanke is ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said a failure to reduce the federal budget deficit may push up interest rates over time and impair economic growth, putting the recovery at risk.

Ben S. Bernanke is a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. From February 2006 through January 2014, he was Chairman of the Board of ...

Mervyn King and former chairman of Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke reflect on world financial crisisMervyn King and former chairman of Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke ...

This suggests that what Bernanke said after the FOMC meeting is much more important than subsequent speeches or the FOMC minutes. There seems to be no doubt that Chairman Bernanke is in the driving ...

In a speech to the National Economists Club that echoed dovish comments by his nominated successor, Janet Yellen, Bernanke also said that while the economy had made significant progress ...

It has been nearly 14 years since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that the Fed’s emergency quantitative-easing policy, of which the most radical part was buying mortgage ...