Bernanke cautions on raising GSE loan limit
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress on Thursday that increasing the size of loans mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy could be problematic and would help only if done swiftly.
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Regulators need not lift investment caps on Fannie Mae  and Freddie Mac  in order to rescue troubled subprime borrowers, but new loan products could help some avoid foreclosure, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter released on Wednesday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that risks from inflation or a worse-than-expected housing slump could further complicate things for an economy that already is in slowdown mode.
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Chinese policy-makers risk losing control of their economy unless they let the yuan rise in value and strengthen their financial system, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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The Federal Reserve will  take the necessary steps to shelter the economy from turmoil in  financial markets but will not bail out investors who made  mistakes, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday.
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Rising oil prices will weigh on economic growth, but the increases so far will not derail the expansion and need not fuel troubling inflation, Federal Reserve Board Governor Ben Bernanke said yesterday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke, in a letter to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New  York, said he did not think caps on investment limits for  Fannie Mae  and Freddie Mac  needed to be lifted.
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Rising oil prices will weigh on U.S.  economic growth but the increases seen so far will not derail  the expansion, Federal Reserve Board Governor Ben Bernanke said  on Monday.
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The economy is set to grow at a  sluggish pace in coming months but there are risks that  elevated levels of inflation excluding food and energy may not  recede, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke said on Thursday that subprime mortgage losses could  hit $100 billion and threaten consumer spending, but he sought  to reassure lawmakers that the central bank was working quickly  to strengthen lending regulations.
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Ben S. Bernanke expressed concern Tuesday over trade imbalances between emerging and industrial nations.
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The Federal Reserve's move to slash interest rates by a half-percentage point signals that Chairman Ben Bernanke, fearing broad damage from recent market turmoil, preferred to risk doing too much rather than too little, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday the U.S. economy will grow  gradually this year and gain steam in 2008, but warned there  are many risks to the outlook and stressed the U.S. central  bank is on guard against inflation.
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Investors banking on more  interest-rate cuts may get some clues about what comes next  from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who testifies  before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on Thursday.
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Fed Chairman Bernanke struck a familiar chord Wednesday but with some concern about subprime problems spilling into the broader economy.
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OMAHA, Nebraska  - Policy-makers should seek to expand worker skills but refrain from restricting trade or labor flows in efforts to narrow income disparity, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Ben S. Bernanke said he expected âmoderateâ growth, but that problems in housing had tempered the forecast.