Brad DeLong seems to have dug up what Dr. Bernanke thought about fiscal deficits before he discovered the global savings glut ... namely, structural fiscal deficits tend to raise real interest rates.

Bernanke made a speech this morning to other central bankers, economists and journalists at an annual forum in Jackson Hole. There were a number of key phrases Fed watchers were expecting to hear and, ...

Ben Bernanke, who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2016, published an op-ed in the New York Times Tuesday arguing that the United States is "almost certainly not" in danger of ...

Former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday that despite current high inflation, the U.S. is likely not in danger of repeating the experiences of the 1960s ...

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 ...

The U.S. economy is facing the worst inflation spike in a generation, but former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday the price spike is not "anywhere near" what Americans experienced in ...

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank made a “mistake” by responding too slowly to surging inflation. In a Monday interview with CNBC, Bernanke said the Fed should have ...

Stephen Spruiell is a staff writer for National Review, where he covers politics, policy and economics. Unlike most of the fights in Washington these days, the unexpected trouble over Fed Chairman Ben ...

One thing Fed Chairman-nominee Ben Bernanke does not lack for is a paper trail — an accomplished academic economist and former Dean of Economics at Princeton, Bernanke has published several scholarly ...

Ben Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal Reserve, won a Nobel Prize Monday for work on financial crises. Bernanke will share the prize with American economists and academics Douglas Diamond and ...