Senate Banking Committee Holds Hearing on Bernanke Confirmation: One Hot Committee Room
A fight's a'brewin in room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building... This is the committee room of the Senate Banking Committee...
A fight's a'brewin in room 538 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building... This is the committee room of the Senate Banking Committee...
David Sirota | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics
Bernanke has been called "the definition of moral hazard" because if he is confirmed, it will send a message to all other federal regulators that they can fall down on the job and still get promoted.
David Sirota | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
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.
Dean Baker | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business
It is striking how the media view blaming Mr. Bernanke for the Great Recession as being out of bounds. Bernanke bears much of the blame for this economic collapse.
Lakshman Achuthan | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business
The "great moderation" of business cycles once extolled by many economists, Ben Bernanke, is history. The trend rate of growth is shriveling. In other words, business cycles are back with a vengeance.
David Segal | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
In its new regulations, the Fed did Americans a huge disservice, doing away with consumers' potential right of recovery of overdraft charges -- which will total nearly $37.5 billion in 2009 alone.
Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Will Ben Bernanke have a second term chairing the Federal Reserve? Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), a chairman on the banking committee holding the hearing...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
What I am seeing and hearing on the news -- the reappointment of Bernanke -- is too hard for me to bear. I cannot believe that we, in the 21st century, can accept living in such a society.
AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The chairman of the Federal Reserve is concerned that congressional efforts at financial reform could weaken the central bank's abili...
washingtonpost.com | Ben Bernanke | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business
For many Americans, the financial crisis, and the recession it spawned, have been devastating -- jobs, homes, savings lost. Understandably, many peopl...
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business
Will the Senate vote another term for Ben Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve? Should it?
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
A senior administration official said on Sunday that after extensive consultations with Treasury Department officials, Representative Barney Frank, th...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sent a fresh signal Thursday that he's in no rush to reverse course and start boosting intere...
Pat Choate | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
As the sheer volume of the Fed financing makes clear, the bailout of the financial sector involves more than the $700 billion approved by Congress in late 2008.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday the worst recession since the 1930s is probably over, although he cautioned that...
Paul A. London | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
History-blind conservatives scare the country by saying that creating more money is a slippery slope to runaway inflation. This is not so. The real danger is the opposite.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke...ecce homo! The man is so hugely qualified that it was essential for Obama to break off his vacation on i...
Duncan Quirk | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy

washingtonpost.com | Neil Irwin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke rendered his most positive assessment of the economy yet in a speech Friday and gave credit in part to his ow...
Wall Street Journal | Phil Izzo | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
Economists are nearly unanimous that Ben Bernanke should be reappointed to another term as Federal Reserve chairman, and they said there is a 71% chan...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 08.24.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke staked out opposing sides Friday in a turf war over w...
Robert Reich | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
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.
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
Massive monetary decisions that are risky in the extreme, and will likely have intergenerational consequences, become mere "tools." The consequential becomes the ubiquitous.
Henry Blodget | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
Ben Bernanke assured us that the Fed's money-printing won't eventually lead to inflation because when the economy begins to recover, the Fed will stop printing money. Ben is unlikely to keep this promise.
Michael Pento | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business
It's not only the size of the fed's balance sheet that is so daunting; it's the makeup that's becoming truly scary.
Cate Long | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics