critics interpreted Bernanke’s words as his way of authorizing indiscriminate money printing, and the moniker “Helicopter Ben” took hold. Bernanke would go on to chair the Federal Reserve ...

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Ben Bernanke was at Jacksonville University this past Friday discussing the Federal Reserve with college students. It’s actually a very good discussion. He goes through the banking crisis step ...

Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has recommended that the Bank of England makes a series of changes to how it makes economic forecasts. Here we explore why this review was called ...

During those eight years Bernanke’s salary was about 200,000 dollars a year. Now he makes that in just a few hours speaking to bankers, hedge fund billionaires and leaders of industry.

Bloomberg reported earlier on Thursday that former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke ... said that helicopter money was not mentioned with Bernanke on Tuesday, and the central bank did not announce what ...

Ben S. Bernanke is a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. From February 2006 through January 2014, he was Chairman of the Board of ...