Brad DeLong seems to have dug up what Dr. Bernanke thought about fiscal deficits before he discovered the global savings glut ... namely, structural fiscal deficits tend to raise real interest rates.

Bernanke made a speech this morning to other central bankers, economists and journalists at an annual forum in Jackson Hole. There were a number of key phrases Fed watchers were expecting to hear and, ...

Ben Bernanke, who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2016, published an op-ed in the New York Times Tuesday arguing that the United States is "almost certainly not" in danger of ...

Most Americans, understandably, know Ben Bernanke as the person who was head of the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 (aka the Great Recession), and who took extraordinary ...

Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday that despite current high inflation, the U.S. is likely not in danger of repeating the experiences of the 1960s ...

On Monday, former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In 2009, Bernanke told 60 Minutes, "The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained ...

The decision to award the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke was widely panned on social media as critics blamed the then-central bank chief for contributing to the ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be nominated to a second term by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, according to media reports. {mosads}The nomination comes after the Federal Reserve under ...

According to data from the St. Louis Fed, Warsh is the first Fed Chair since Ben Bernanke to be sworn in with 10-year yields as elevated as they are now. ・Unlike Bernanke, Yellen, and Powell, who took ...

Stephen Spruiell is a staff writer for National Review, where he covers politics, policy and economics. Unlike most of the fights in Washington these days, the unexpected trouble over Fed Chairman Ben ...

One thing Fed Chairman-nominee Ben Bernanke does not lack for is a paper trail — an accomplished academic economist and former Dean of Economics at Princeton, Bernanke has published several scholarly ...

Mr. Bernanke was chair of the Federal Reserve during the global financial crisis, which brought the world’s economy to its knees. By Jeanna Smialek Ben S. Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal ...