Ben S. Bernanke
http://www.federalreserve.gov/Ben S. Bernanke is the current Federal Reserve Chairman. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in October 2005 to succeed Alan Greenspan. He was sworn in as chairman on February 1, 2006.
Bernanke was born in Georgia and grew up in South Carolina. He graduated from Harvard in 1975 with a BA in economics and received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1979. He taught at the Stanford Graduate Scholl of Business from 1979 to 1985 and became a tenured professor at Princeton University.
Before becoming Federal Reserve Chairman, he was the Director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research and editor of the American Economic Review. In addition, he was chairman of the US President's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA).
Bernanke has been an advocate of a more transparent and democratic Federal Reserve, a different approach than Alan Greenspan. However, Bernanke's first months as FED Chairman were rocky. He took over in the midst of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the housing bubble. Also, he was criticized by some as being too "academic" and out of touch with the markets.
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Daily State of the Markets 8/10: Cloudy With a Chance of Disappointment
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Stocks Sharply Lower Ahead of FOMC Meeting
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No Increase Seen in Personal Income and Spending
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Bernanke Speech "Challenges for the Economy and State Governments"
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Fed Chairman Bernanke says consumer spending may 'pick up' on wage gains
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Top 10 News Items: Euro Stress Tests Completed, Apple Reports Blow-Out Results, Financial Earnings Look Mostly Inline
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Notable ETF Movers of the Day 07/22: SPY, XLF, USO Higher; VXX, UUP Lower
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Rochdale's Dick Bove Raises Wells Fargo (WFC) to Buy
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Bernanke's "Unusually Uncertain" Description of the Economic Outlook Sends Stocks Into a Nosedive
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Gold Falls Following Bernanke Testimony; Down $6
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Stocks Fall Sharply as Bernanke's Testimony to Banking Committee Spooks Traders
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Bernanke's Testimony to Senate Banking Committee on Semiannual Monetary Policy Report
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Bernanke to Senate Banking Committee: 'Economic Outlook Remains Unusually Uncertain', Fed Prepared to Take More Policy Actions 'As Needed'
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Notable ETF Movers of the Day 07/21: VXX, UUP, XLF Higher; EWJ, KRE, USO Lower
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Daily State of the Markets 7/21: Any Meaning?
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Bernanke Issues Statement After Senate Approves FinReg: New Rules to Help Prevent 'Replay' of Crisis
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FOMC Minutes from June 22-23 Meeting
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Bernanke Says Aid to Small Businesses is 'Crucial' to Economic Recovery
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Stocks Mostly Unchanged as Fed Keeps Rates Pat
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Fed's Vice Chairman Donald Kohn Will Stay On At Request of Bernanke
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Fed's Kohn delays departure til September 1 at Ben Bernanke's request
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Bernanke Testimony: Economic and financial conditions and the federal budget
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FOMC Minutes from April 27-28 2010 Meeting
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Daily State of the Markets 4/29: Help IS on the Way
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FOMC: Leaves Rates Unchanged; Keeps "Extended Period" Language
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Ben Bernanke 4/20 Testimony: Lessons from the failure of Lehman Brothers
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Bernanke's Testimony on Economic Outlook Before Joint Economic Committee
