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 ...

The decision to award the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics to former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke was widely panned on social media as critics blamed the then-central bank chief for contributing to the ...

Yesterday, Ben Bernanke departed from the silent, opaque tradition of the Federal Reserve and held a press conference. The event attracted considerable attention, for its novelty as much as for its ...

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 ...

Even if you credit Ben Bernanke with working miracles in 2008, his later actions messed the nation up for decades. AP Ouch: The Nobel Prize in Economics for former Fed chief Ben Bernanke may be one of ...

On Monday, former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. In 2009, Bernanke told 60 Minutes, "The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Bernanke was chair of the Federal Reserve during the global financial crisis, which brought the world’s economy to its knees. By Jeanna Smialek Ben S. Bernanke, the former chair of the Federal ...

Ben Bernanke’s Fed pulled off a miracle during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. What might Kevin Warsh be forced to pull out of his hat as the central bank’s new boss? On one level, those ...