WATCH: Ben Bernanke Says More execs should have gone to jail for causing Great Recession
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Ben Bernanke wanted more Wall Street bankers in jail in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Bernanke advocated for Wall Street’s bailout in 2008 during the financial crisis when More...
Al-Qaeda Magazine that Targeted French Satirist Puts Ben Bernanke, Bill Gates in Crosshairs
Stephane Charbonnier, who was among the 12 people killed in a terrorist attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, had been targeted by al-Qaeda since 2013, a report said. The “most wanted” More...
Ben Bernanke Thinks Quantitative Easing Is too Rough for Europe
Rising to standing ovations at the Schwab IMPACT conference for his account of how Quantitative Easing rescued the American economy when it seemed on the verge of collapse, Former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke More...
Alan Greenspan Says Fed Policy Change May Lead to Turmoil
With Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen scheduled to deliver an announcement on Wednesday, Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan says “easy does it” when it comes to tapering off bond buying. With More...
Former Fed Chief Ben Bernanke: QE Worked in Practice, But Not in Theory
When Ben Bernanke departed as Chairman of the Federal Reserve last year, he was asked if Quantitative Easing really worked. He quipped, “The problem with QE is that it works in practice, but it doesn’t More...
Former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia Stephen Roach: The Fed Trap
– As the US Federal Reserve attempts to exit from its unconventional monetary policy, it is grappling with the disparity between the policy’s success in preventing economic disaster and its failure More...
Was the Government AIG Bailout Legal?
Insurer AIG became a poster child for the “too big to fail” imperative that led the government to bail out banks and auto companies during the recession. While this annoyed many taxpayers, ousted More...
Ideas and idols
– Seven years ago, as the ‘limited’, ‘contained’ subprime crash of 2006/07 morphed into the much larger and infinitely more dangerous global financial crisis of 2007/08, a whole generation More...
Steve Forbes Says Bad Monetary Policy Undermining US Dollar
– Steve Forbes, Chairman of Forbes, Inc. and one of the most prominent figures in American publishing, sees gold as a clear, viable solution to the disastrous economic conditions created by More...
QE2 to End Soon, Tapering Back to Begin Later this Year
– Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve/ Getty – / By David Frank / Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve is testifying before Congress today and admitted that the Fed will begin More...