Ben Bernanke

Speaking to Quartz, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that Bitcoin "has some serious problems." Bitcoin's value peaked at $1,147.25 on December 4 and crashed to a low of $177.28 just a few months later. Bernanke suggested that Bitcoin has yet to establish itself as a...

Last Sunday, Ben Bernanke, economist and former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, was a guest on Wall Street Week. The scholar went into several subjects, including his background, his ascent to politics, the Fed and low interest rates. His comments regarding banks and insurers, and his...

Ben Bernanke, the former Fed Chairman, told CNBC that slow productivity growth is weighing on the U.S. economy. Bernanke added that additional capital investment is needed to spur further growth. Shares of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) remained higher by 0.6 percent following...

The Chinese Communist Party has taken aggressive measures to combat its decline in the nation's stock market, which had shed about a third of its value in less than a month. First, the country's government attempted to stem capital flight by freezing the holdings of any shareholder with over a 5...

Economist and former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke has started writing an official blog on Brookings to relay his views on various economic and financial issues. For his first discussion, Bernanke asks, "Why are interest rates so low?" In today's world where...

Anyone that entered the investing business in 1980 knows that it is very odd to see the central bankers of the world now focused on trying to increase inflation. Back in the day, inflation was the enemy. An enemy Paul Volcker was locked in battle with for years as runaway inflation threatened...

David Einhorn, speaking on Bloomberg TV Tuesday, gave his opinion on the Federal Reserve. Einhorn had the opportunity to dine with Ben Bernanke last month. "I'd been critical for a very long time," said Einhorn regarding Bernanke. One of Einhorn’s concerns is that interest rates have been at...

A funny thing happens when a person makes a prediction. Those who get it wrong are usually forgiven; because who can predict the future right?  At the same time,those who are right often are given undue credit. When it comes to stock market prediction machine Peter Schiff, publisher of the...

In his latest book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis contends the stock market is "rigged" in favor of institutional investors who buy and sell securities rapidly with computer programs, booking loads of tiny profits. This is at the expense of the individual investor, Lewis claims. Actually, it is the...

In case you missed it, Friday marked the five-year anniversary of the intraday low of the Credit Crisis bear market. However, the closing low was set on March 9, 2009 at S&P 500 676.53. Thus, through Friday's close, the current bull market has gained 177.6 percent. Not bad for a period...

Janet Yellen made her first congressional appearance as Chair of the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, testifying on economic policy issues before the House Financial Services Committee. And she appeared to make a strongly positive first impression. Her cordial approach, along with her signaling of...

As testimony continued in a manner one blogger described as a "remarkably slow cadence," incoming Federal Reserve Chairwoman, Janet Yellen, told Congress Tuesday that the central bank remains optimistic on the economy and was determined to retreat from its stimulus program slowly. In prepared...

When Ben Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in February 2006, the economy seemed to growing smoothly. Unemployment was under 5 percent. Little did the former Princeton economics professor know what was to befall him. Within 18 months, it became clear a...

The euro lost some ground on Thursday morning after weak data from the eurozone added to evidence that the European Central Bank would be forced to intervene in order to prevent deflation. The common currency traded at $1.3616 at 7:30 GMT as speculation that the Mario Draghi and his peers would...