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Ben Bernanke, the head of the US central bank, and US President Barack Obama top a list of the foremost 100 global thinkers for 2009 that was published Tuesday by the magazine Foreign Policy.
Conservative inconsistency on TARP.
The debate about the Federal Reserve hides an issue of leadership and management that needs to be tackled. With the approval of Sen. Ron...
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A pair of Republican members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee said Tuesday they would support Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term at the helm of the central bank.
Charles Plosser, president of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, becomes the first insider to explicitly call for higher interest rates.
Daniel Cobble is a legal and literal brick thrower — a practice that has landed him on the cusp of going to federal prison.
The euro rose against the dollar Tuesday as investors weighed the Bank of Japan's decision to provide markets with more liquidity and looked forward to other central bank events later in the week.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is fine-tuning a strategy to reel in some of the unprecedented amount of money that's been pumped into the economy during the financial crisis.
Obama Leading Us Right To Great Depression 2
NEW YORK — The dollar slid against most major currencies Tuesday on promising U.S. economic reports and the Bank of Japan's decision to provide markets with more liquidity.
Please listen closely to Jeremy Grantham's 14-point analysis of the rampant irrationality at the highest level of American government today, because what he is also predicting is another catastrophic meltdown dead ahead.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s impassioned appeal for Fed independence may be the most concise and compelling case the administration has made for its regulatory reform plan so far, writes David Weidner.
WASHINGTON — The road from recession to recovery is rarely smooth, straight or short. It comes with detours, forks and even dead ends. And sometimes surprises.
U.S. stock index futures fell on Monday as investors assessed whether a possible debt default by two of Dubai's flagship firms could threaten a global economic recovery.
Some of the parallels between 1937 and today are striking.
By all means, we should let Congress audit our central bank.
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