Economix: Bernankeâs Midterm Tests
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Sometime before Feb. 1, 2010, the next president will have to decide whether Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should get a second term.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday threw his support behind efforts to craft a fiscal stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.
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Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve was âprepared to act as neededâ to prevent market woes from spreading while the Dow closed up nearly 250 points as investors went bargain-hunting.
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Ben S. Bernanke said he expected âmoderateâ growth, but that problems in the housing market had tempered the forecast.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today that lawmakers should enact a fiscal stimulus package to help beleaguered consumers as recession fears grow. Economists and politicians are increasingly worried about fallout from the subprime mortgage meltdown.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts  - Swings in volatile energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as long as expectations of future price gains are held steady, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Ben S. Bernanke told Congress that he expected âmoderateâ growth for the rest of this year, but said problems in the housing market had tempered the forecast.
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The U.S. economy is poised to expand  at a moderate rate and "uncomfortably high" core inflation  should slow, but inflation risks are "primarily to the upside,"  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank painted contrasting pictures of the US and European economies on Thursday, with Ben Bernanke, Fed chairman, depicting a US economy that could continue to grow rapidly without generating inflation, while the ECB hinted that further interest rate rises were needed to stem inflationary pressure in the eurozone.
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Unearthing values in the post-bubble wreckage.
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Stocks bounced back on Wednesday as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reassured investors that the economy was set to grow moderately, a day after the Dow industrials' worst slide since the September 11, 2001, attacks.
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Wall Street sent Washington a message: the recession that Ben S. Bernanke said can be averted is already here.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke on Thursday threw his support behind efforts to craft  a fiscal stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central  bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.
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Swings in volatile  energy and food prices will have minimal impact on inflation as  long as inflation expectations are held steady, Federal Reserve  Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke will testify on July 19 and 20 on the Fed&#039;s semiannual  monetary policy report, congressional committees said on  Monday.
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Bernanke signals that recession--not inflation--worries him for now. Open the floodgates.
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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.