Bernanke Testimony

Ben Bernanke: Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Altering Job Market For The Worse

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.07.2012

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that record levels of long-term unemployment will alter the U.S. job market for the worse for the f...

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Bernanke Tells FCIC: 'Too Big To Fail' Problem Must Be Solved

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shutter the ...

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Bernanke to Testify Before Financial Crisis Panel

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will testify this week about his role in the bank bailouts that sent billions of taxpayer dol...

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Bernanke: Sizable Deficits Are 'Unavoidable' Now But Pose Long-Term Risk

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that he has confidence the unfolding economic recovery will have stay...

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Bernanke Likely To Strike Hopeful Note On Recovery

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The European debt crisis is likely to have only a "modest" impact on the U.S. economic recovery as long as Wall Street stabilizes, ...

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Bernanke Predicts Continued Recovery, Not Double-Dip Recession, 'But It Won't Feel Terrific'

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday he is hopeful the economy will gain traction and not fall back into a "double dip...

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Bernanke Stimulus Testimony: Interest Rates Will Remain At Record Lows For An "Extended Period"

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Prepare for the end of record-low interest rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says. Just not yet. Higher rates on credit...

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Moving the Senate Banking Committee to "No" on Bernanke

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thanks to a bipartisan effort to stop the reappointment of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, there's a slim -- but distinct -- possibility that his reappointment can actually be successfully thwarted.

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Bernanke Testimony: Says He Didn't Pressure Bank of America To Buy Merrill

AP | Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday he didn't pressure Bank of America into acquiring Merrill Lynch in a d...

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Bernanke's Real Message About Budget Deficits

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

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Has Ben Bernanke suddenly become a deficit hawk? In remarks to the House Budget Committee he sounded like one -- calling on Congress to come up with a plan to restore fiscal balance.

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Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Original Caption: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill May 5, 2009 in Washington, ...

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Bernanke, Geithner Testify On Bank Plan, AIG (LIVE VIDEO)

The Huffington Post/MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, appe...

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Bernanke Asks For Nationalization "Framework," Graham Pushes Point

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are signs that the Obama administration and Congress are looking at taking their role in propping up the banking industry one step closer to nat...

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Bernanke Citibank Nationalization: "We Don't Plan Anything Like That"

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday again spurned speculation that the government may nationalize Citigroup or other...

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Bernanke: Recession Should End in 2009, 2010 "Will Be A Year Of Recovery"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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From The Wall Street Journal... scroll down for live video from the hearing: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that the recessi...

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Bernanke Appears Before Senate Banking Committee (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faces questions from the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday. His testimony comes a day after the government mo...

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Rush Transcript of the Senate Banking Committee Hearing with Paulson and Bernanke

Lauren Kirchner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bernanke Doesn't See Return of '70s Woes

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday that the nation isn't "anywhere near" the dangerous stagflation situat...

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Stocks Finish Mixed in Choppy Session

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mixed in another seesaw session Wednesday after regulators allowed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to buy more mortga...

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Bernanke Testimony Drives Stocks Down

AP | Leslie Wines | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stocks gave up mild gains and turned lower Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the risks of an economic downturn are more pronou...

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