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Fed chief sees long road back to economic health
The nation faces a long road to get back to good economic health, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday, August 2 . . . read more Read More
Fed chief to Congress: Don’t end stimulus spending
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday, July 22, that the fragile economy needs government stimulus spending to strengthen the recovery and help reduce unemployment.
Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, Bernanke urged lawmakers to come up with a credible plan . . . read more Read More
Bernanke says recovery on track despite headwinds
The European debt crisis is likely to have only a “modest” impact on the U.S. economic recovery as long as Wall Street stabilizes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday, June 9.
Testifying before the House Budget Committee, Bernanke struck a more confident tone that the recovery will remain intact despite problems in Europe as well stubbornly high unemployment and a fragile housing market here at home.
“The economy … appears to be on track to continue to expand through this year and next,” Bernanke said.
However, the pace of the expansion — 3.5 percent this year by the Fed’s estimate — won’t be strong enough to quickly bring relief to the 15 million Americans who are unemployed. . . . read more Read More
Bernanke confident on recovery; warns on deficit
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that he has confidence the unfolding economic recovery will have staying power, although it won’t be strong enough to bring quick relief to high unemployment.
Bernanke, testifying before Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, also once again called on lawmakers and the White House to come up with a plan to whittle down record-high budget deficits.
Even though sizable deficits right now are “unavoidable” given the damage wrought by the recession . . . read more Read More
Time magazine names Bernanke ‘Person of the Year’
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2009.
Last year’s winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama. The 2007 winner was Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Other previous winners have included Bono, President George W. Bush, and Amazon.com CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. Read More
Fed Extension
President Obama made a solid choice this week to reappoint current Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term. His initial four-year appointment by then-President Bush expires on January 31, 2010. Read More
Coming Issues for the Fed
The President of the United States is typically viewed as the most powerful person on the planet. Surprisingly, the Chair of the Federal Reserve is typically viewed by many as the second most powerful.
Indeed, I would make the case that the Fed Chair, through his or her influence upon short-term interest rates has perhaps more influence on our day-to-day lives than does the President. Read More
Job Erasure
One more month…one more exceedingly painful U.S. employment report
We have now had seven consecutive terrible job reports since the American consumer was told “the sky was falling” last September 18 by Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson. It was on that day that this dynamic duo emotionally and very publicly asked the U.S. Congress for $700,000,000,000 to fix financial markets.
That request, and the up-and-down discussion within the U.S. Congress during the following week, simply scared the American consumer to death. The consumer stopped spending…companies of all sizes adopted a “shoot first, ask questions later” approach to layoffs…and the economy dropped quickly. The rest, as they say, is history. Read More
