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The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke's Out of Bullets Ben Bernanke has spent the past year and a half firing as many bullets as possible to prop up the economy. After lowering the target on the Fed funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25%, he's finally out of ammunition. |
BusinessWeek August 6, 2009 Roben Farzad |
Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, by David Wessel, is an engrossing look at the central bank's swift reaction to the crisis, and how it is wielding its power. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Merrill Wants Its Bubble Back, Too The investing bigwig longs for the return of astronomical housing prices. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer |
Bumbling Bernanke? I Don't Think So A lot of people seem to think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has no idea what he's doing. Does he or not? |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Should Ben Bernanke Get Another Term? He became chairman of the Federal Reserve right as we hurtled into financial meltdown. Does Bernanke deserve to keep the job? |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
The Motley Fool April 30, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Bernanke's Done, Finally Stocks and the economy shouldn't expect any more help from the Fed. |
The Motley Fool June 11, 2008 Kristin Graham |
Can Bernanke Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk? Ben Bernanke is getting down to business to combat inflation. |
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Kristin Graham |
Just Stop, Ben Bernanke The Fed chairman needs to put away his Superman cape. |
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Hair-Trigger Ben and the Pointless Rate Cut Ben Bernanke and the Fed cut rates by half a point last month when the jobs report showed a loss of 4,000 jobs for August. However, the Labor Department's latest figures add up to an 89,000-job gain for that time. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
How the Federal Reserve Lost Its War Every battle is won or lost before it is fought. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2008 Bill Mann & Tim Hanson |
We've Got Your Back, Bernanke There are several irresponsible assumptions in the recent criticism of Fed chief Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Said What? If inflation continues to take a bite out of consumer spending, it might not be enough to dump the economy. But it could be more than enough to put an end to the peak earnings we're seeing these days. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Tom Keene |
Tom Keene's Econo Chat A conversation with Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, on the slow economic recovery. |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system. |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
How Lehman Played Musical Chairs With Its Loans Lehman Brothers sheds light on new Fed lending facilities. Will it work? |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
BusinessWeek September 17, 2007 Peter Coy |
A Friend Of Ben With A Bold Idea Frederic Mishkin thinks the Fed should cut rates quickly if home prices tumble. |
InternetNews March 27, 2006 Paul Shread |
Techs Edge Higher Ahead of Fed Tech stocks edged higher Monday ahead of the first Federal Reserve meeting under new chairman Ben Bernanke... Blue chips spent the day under water... Foundry Networks gained on an upgrade... etc. |
The Motley Fool June 6, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Banking news: It was a roller-coaster in subprime land this past week. |
The Motley Fool February 26, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke's Quiet Bailout By using the term auction facility, Ben Bernanke was able prevent panic and simultaneously keep the banking system sound. Did he do the right thing? |
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Christopher Farrell |
How Alan Helped Ben Greenspan just made Bernanke's job a bit easier. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2008 Rich Duprey |
Is the Fed or Market More Panicked? An emergency interest rate cut ahead of the regular meeting shows just how jittery economic planners are. |
The Motley Fool December 16, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Bernanke's the Man (of the Year)? Would you name the Fed Chief 2009's Person of the Year? |
The Motley Fool July 17, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Bernanke's Complete and Utter Failure If the Fed's rate cut six months ago had been the extent of its command-and-control meddling, we might've been out of the woods by now. Sadly, it wasn't, and we're not. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2008 Morgan Housel |
One World, One Rate Cut Central bankers hold hands and unite in a global display of panic. |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Fall of AIG Why did the Fed ultimately decide to bail out AIG? |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Back-Rub Ben and the Feel-Good Fed The latest Federal Reserve minutes imply the motivation for the interest rate cut was to soothe jittery markets. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2008 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Sorting Out the Market Madness Lehman goes belly-up. Merrill Lynch gets hitched. AIG gets bailed out. And Mr. Market goes on a wild ride. So what does it all mean for investors? |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Why Bernanke Is Ignoring You Rate cuts aren't finding their way to cash-strapped consumers. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Fed to Market: We're Scared, Too Investors aren't alone in their panic. |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Daily Walk of Shame: The Fed The real economy versus the Federal Reserve. |
The Motley Fool December 6, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Slow Jobs Market? Blame Housing The key to getting the economy back on track is deleveraging -- paying off debt accumulated during the bubble years. For households, the vast majority of that debt is in the form of mortgages. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Calls a Bottom -- Again Haven't we played this game before? |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke's Best One-Liners of 2010 Central banking isn't all grim and sober. Here are some one-liners for 2010 from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Clock's Ticking for AIG, WaMu Without any firm news coming out of these two companies, investors are bound to assume nothing but the worst. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Swarms In I just worry he won't be able to swarm out as quickly. |
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Lehman Brothers Holds Tough Despite a wretched week, Lehman battles back liquidity rumors. |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Bear and the Housing Carcass Investors, do you think Ben Bernanke's half-point rate cut can save housing, like the folks at the National Association of Realtors claim? Then take just the briefest peak at the earnings release from Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation. |
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Michael Mandel |
Bernanke's Dilemma The markets are clamoring for rate cuts, but weak U.S. productivity gains and strong global growth may limit the Fed's options. |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2007 Seth Jayson |
No Ambiguity in New Housing Numbers An explanation of the latest housing numbers. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Caplinger & Bylund |
Who's More to Blame: Ben Bernanke or Credit Derivatives? March Madness series: The derivatives that are behind this debacle have been around a lot longer than the three years that Bernanke has headed the Fed. Are they to blame? Or should Ben Bernanke have been more direct in calling for changes to be made? |
The Motley Fool November 22, 2010 Sean Williams |
Quantitative Easing: Knowing When to Say When Ben Bernanke's QE2 has all the makings of a long-term disaster. |
InternetNews August 30, 2007 Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Waiting on the Fed Much depends on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday. |
Registered Rep. October 24, 2005 Halah Touryalai |
Bernanke Nomination Applauded by Brokerage Industry With the nomination of Ben Bernanke to chairman of the Federal Reserve Board -- likely the most powerful banking job in the world -- President Bush hit the nail on the head, say brokerage industry officials, as well as brokers. |