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The Motley Fool August 25, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty. |
BusinessWeek December 1, 2010 Rich Miller |
Bernanke and Geithner Fight Back How the Federal Reserve chairman and Treasury Secretary are battling to defend the Fed's latest moves -- and preserve its independence. |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Should Ben Bernanke Get Another Term? He became chairman of the Federal Reserve right as we hurtled into financial meltdown. Does Bernanke deserve to keep the job? |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Doesn't Budge Bernanke holds rates steady. Here's why that was a good idea. |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system. |
Registered Rep. October 24, 2005 Halah Touryalai |
Bernanke Nomination Applauded by Brokerage Industry With the nomination of Ben Bernanke to chairman of the Federal Reserve Board -- likely the most powerful banking job in the world -- President Bush hit the nail on the head, say brokerage industry officials, as well as brokers. |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Peter Coy |
The Bernanke Agenda The Fed chairman feels the pain of subprime borrowers and the Street, but he's got his priorities. |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Rich Miller |
What Now, Chairman Bernanke? Some economists and former Fed officials think Bernanke should rethink the central bank's wait-and-see policy as growth slows. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Bernanke's the Man (of the Year)? Would you name the Fed Chief 2009's Person of the Year? |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Peter Coy |
Credit and the Bernanke Code The Fed's new foray into bond purchases has to lower long-term rates to succeed. The $600 billion is less than it has already spent. |
BusinessWeek July 30, 2009 Michael Mandel |
Behind Bernanke's Charm Offensive The Fed's New Worry: Popularity. For a central bank dependent on Congress for bailout funds, approval ratings matter. And they're not good |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Banking news: Raising capital is getting tougher for banks... Countrywide faces a shareholder lawsuit... Paul Volcker warned that the Federal Reserve Bank's political independence could be compromised... etc. |
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Christopher Farrell |
How Alan Helped Ben Greenspan just made Bernanke's job a bit easier. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
The Motley Fool October 24, 2005 Tim Beyers |
Goodbye, Greenspan New Fed chief Ben Bernanke faces a tough job and some big shoes to fill. Here are several of the unfriendly forces that threaten the U.S. economy. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Bails Out Bear Has Bernanke saved the financial system, or has he guaranteed that we pay for Wall Street's mistakes? |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Will Take Your Shares to Zero Ben Bernanke speaks out about the "moral hazard" dilemma of giving firms the perception of being "too big to fail." |
The Motley Fool April 12, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Stop Listening to the Fed Trying to understand the Federal Reserve will just get you confused. If you have a solid long-term investment plan, you shouldn't use news about the Fed to guide your trading decisions. If the noise will distract you, it's best just to tune it out. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Caplinger & Bylund |
Who's More to Blame: Ben Bernanke or Credit Derivatives? March Madness series: The derivatives that are behind this debacle have been around a lot longer than the three years that Bernanke has headed the Fed. Are they to blame? Or should Ben Bernanke have been more direct in calling for changes to be made? |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Bernanke's Complete and Utter Failure If the Fed's rate cut six months ago had been the extent of its command-and-control meddling, we might've been out of the woods by now. Sadly, it wasn't, and we're not. |
InternetNews March 27, 2006 Paul Shread |
Techs Edge Higher Ahead of Fed Tech stocks edged higher Monday ahead of the first Federal Reserve meeting under new chairman Ben Bernanke... Blue chips spent the day under water... Foundry Networks gained on an upgrade... etc. |
The Motley Fool February 24, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Bernanke Calls a Bottom Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke reveals the results of his peek into his economic crystal ball, declaring that our economy could be on the road to recovery in 2010. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner: Champs or Chumps? It's been a year since the financial markets went splat. Have government officials succeeded in combating the collapse? |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer |
Bumbling Bernanke? I Don't Think So A lot of people seem to think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has no idea what he's doing. Does he or not? |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Bernanke's Bid to Rule Zimbabwe If the Fed chairman and Treasury secretary have their way, we're gonna need $1 billion Zimbabwean notes. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Said What? If inflation continues to take a bite out of consumer spending, it might not be enough to dump the economy. But it could be more than enough to put an end to the peak earnings we're seeing these days. |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2006 Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy: Gentle Ben? The Federal Reserve's incoming chairman confronts a choice: Suffer now or later? |
U.S. Banker November 2005 |
Finding the Country's Next Alan Greenspan The former Fed chairman's stewardship of the economy has taken on an almost biblical meaning. Succeeding, never mind outperforming, him will be anything but easy. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
The Riskiest, Most Profitable Bank of All While the Fed won't suffer the same fate as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers or Northern Rock, a run on the dollar (or even just an orderly decline) could turn out to be the direct equivalent of a run on the (central) bank. |
BusinessWeek December 3, 2009 Peter Coy |
An Embattled Fed Fights Back Bernanke is unapologetic and warns that moves to weaken the central bank would jeopardize economic stability |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2008 Morgan Housel |
This Week's Big Economic Stories More job woes... Greenspan speaks... The next great bond boom... GDP hanging in... Quick economic numbers... |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke's Best One-Liners of 2010 Central banking isn't all grim and sober. Here are some one-liners for 2010 from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
BusinessWeek April 8, 2010 |
Book Excerpt: Roger Lowenstein's "The End of Wall Street" The Street isn't dead - but a certain laissez-faire idea of it is. So argues Lowenstein in his new book. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Bernanke May Need To Dig Deeper Into His Toolbox It could take a broad rate cut to stabilize the markets and the economy. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2008 David A. Geracioti |
It's All Greenspan's Fault A conversation with William Fleckenstein, whose book, Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance At The Federal Reserve, was recently published by McGraw-Hill. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Hair-Trigger Ben and the Pointless Rate Cut Ben Bernanke and the Fed cut rates by half a point last month when the jobs report showed a loss of 4,000 jobs for August. However, the Labor Department's latest figures add up to an 89,000-job gain for that time. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 Peter Coy |
A Friend Of Ben With A Bold Idea Frederic Mishkin thinks the Fed should cut rates quickly if home prices tumble. |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Morgan Housel |
You Failed Us, Uncle Sam An interview with Stanford economist John Taylor about government intervention in our economy. |
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 Scott Lanman |
John Taylor: The Republicans' Shadow Fed Chairman The Stanford University economist's blistering policy critiques have inspired GOP leaders |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2008 |
The 10 Biggest Stories of 2008 What Bear Stearns' fallout means for investors... The people responsible for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... Why you should care that Lehman went bust... Black Sunday on Wall Street... AIG's failure is so much bigger than Enron's... etc. |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Peter Coy |
Is the Fed Creating New Bubbles? Its easy-money policy has Asia worried. But Bernanke says fears of a speculative surge are overblown |
Reason January 2006 Jeff A. Taylor |
The Gentle Persuader The Fed should be moving to a neutral stance on rates just as Greenspan leaves, which buys Bernanke time. But sooner or later the business cycle pendulum will swing back; it will be time to ease. |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 James C. Cooper |
The Fed Won't Give The Markets A Break Amid inflation pressures, Bernanke isn't ready for a preemptive rate cut. |