U.S. dollar (DXY) and S&P 500 (SP500) performance is usually muted or lower three months after a Federal Reserve chair ...

Today the S&P 500 Stock Index and the NASDAQ Composite index hit new historical highs. The Federal Reserve continues to ...

Ben Bernanke is a former Federal Reserve chair, serving from 2006 to 2014. As Fed chair, Bernanke oversaw the central bank's response to the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.

Easing tensions in the Middle East, particularly between Israel and Iran, have led to a drop in oil prices, potentially ...

Ben Bernanke on COVID-19 downturn: “With help from the Federal Reserve and from the Treasury, I’m not really expecting a major financial crisis.” ...

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was more tantalizing than illuminating when he recently said, regarding the nation’s ...

WASHINGTON — This season, Ben Bernanke was able to sit through an entire Nationals game. During the financial meltdown in 2008, the then-chairman of the Federal Reserve would buy a lemonade and ...

Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, who steered the central bank during the Great Recession, argued in a newly released paper that the Fed still has more work to do to bring inflation down.

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 Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers remarks after receiving the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, during a ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in 2017. He ...

Who Is Ben Bernanke? Ben Bernanke, 14th Chairman of the Federal Reserve, was hailed for his leadership through the 2007–2008 Financial Crisis. Although the ...

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.