Having an individual, a company or a central bank willing to lend to banks is crucial in responding to financial panics,Former chairman of the Federal Reserve and former economics department chair of ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that U.S. government intervention during the financial crisis prevented a “total meltdown” in the U.S. economy that could have rivaled the Great ...

The Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank is inviting the public to view and discuss a series of lectures Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will teach in late March. Bernanke will deliver his lectures ...

Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and former chair of the economics department, was presented with The American Whig-Cliosophic Society's 2014 James Madison Award for Distinguished ...

In this edited collection of lectures (originally delivered at the George Washington University in March 2012), Bernanke (Essays on the Great Depression) portrays the U.S. Federal Reserve’s actions ...

We wondered Tuesday morning why Ben Bernanke was offering a live-streamed lecture series to college students on the history of the Federal Reserve, and now we have at least one answer: He's reaching ...

Chairman Bernanke’s decision to use the first of his four lectures at George Washington University to attack the gold standard certainly puts the hay down where us mules can get to it. “Ben Bernanke’s ...

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke leaves after he testified at a hearing before the Joint Economic Committee May 22, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Bernanke ...

As a still-undecided sophomore, Ben S. Bernanke ’75 did what hundreds of Harvard students have done for decades: enroll in Economics 10, the school’s introductory economics course sequence. “I didn’t ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday that he thinks the U.S. economy will return to its long-term growth of around 3 percent a year despite the weaknesses it still ...