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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.   |
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
June 5, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation. |
BusinessWeek
July 29, 2010
Kopecki & Campbell |
Low Rates are Squeezing Bank Profits What started as a blessing for big lenders is becoming a burden as profit margins shrink. |
BusinessWeek
June 23, 2011
Rich Miller |
What Now, Chairman Bernanke? Some economists and former Fed officials think Bernanke should rethink the central bank's wait-and-see policy as growth slows. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009
Michael Mandel |
Behind Bernanke's Charm Offensive The Fed's New Worry: Popularity. For a central bank dependent on Congress for bailout funds, approval ratings matter. And they're not good |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
The $800 Billion Pick-Me-Up for Consumer Credit The central bank announces an $800 billion support package aimed at spurring mortgage lending and consumer credit, including car, credit card, and small business loans. |
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
July 9, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Tomorrow's Market Decline Doesn't Matter Investors counting on Ben Bernanke will be disappointed. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
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
August 27, 2010
Jared Cummans |
Friday's ETF to Watch: Inflation Protected Bond (TIP) The iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund offers exposure to inflation protected Treasuries, one of the most popular options for protecting against inflation. |
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
November 30, 2006 |
Mortgage-Rate Mojo Ever wonder what causes mortgage rates to rise and fall? Well, know that they fluctuate along with other interest rates. |
BusinessWeek
August 27, 2009
James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Credit Growth Remains Slow Banks are still skittish about offering credit, and households and companies remain reluctant to borrow, creating drags on the recovery. |
The Motley Fool
March 24, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
BusinessWeek
September 3, 2007
James Mehring |
Inflation Takes A Backseat--For Now The Federal Reserve has put its inflation concerns on the back burner as it focuses on the financial markets and the potential risks they pose to economic growth. |
The Motley Fool
March 18, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
Did the Fed Go Too Low Too Long? Did the Fed blunder the first time through? Is there any hope of avoiding it this time? |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Wells Fargo Looks Attractive Cheaper and better-run is an attractive combination. |
The Motley Fool
April 12, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Stop Listening to the Fed Trying to understand the Federal Reserve will just get you confused. If you have a solid long-term investment plan, you shouldn't use news about the Fed to guide your trading decisions. If the noise will distract you, it's best just to tune it out. |
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. |
Bank Director
2nd Quarter 2009
L. William Seidman |
Will the Fed's Medicine Work? Fed activity is unprecedented -- a new activism never seen before in the history of the United States. |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene Talks to James Bianco The Bianco Research bond market specialist sees Fed policy sparking inflation. |
The Motley Fool
September 23, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let Bernanke Sink Your Portfolio Here's how to defend yourself from the Fed. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2006 |
Explaining Stock Market Gyrations Learn how the folks at the Fed influence the stock market. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2009
Peter Coy |
An Embattled Fed Fights Back Bernanke is unapologetic and warns that moves to weaken the central bank would jeopardize economic stability |
BusinessWeek
August 20, 2007
James C. Cooper |
The Fed Won't Give The Markets A Break Amid inflation pressures, Bernanke isn't ready for a preemptive rate cut. |
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
August 31, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
Another Frankenstein Bank? Fed hearings and more public comment may prove the Capital One-ING Direct deal's undoing. |
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? |
BusinessWeek
August 27, 2009
Peter Coy |
The Fed: Low Rates as Far as Bernanke Can See Why the Federal Reserve's policy of keeping short-term interest at historic lows has such broad support. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate. |
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
August 1, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Bernanke's Bid to Rule Zimbabwe If the Fed chairman and Treasury secretary have their way, we're gonna need $1 billion Zimbabwean notes. |
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? |
BusinessWeek
November 4, 2010
Peter Coy |
Credit and the Bernanke Code The Fed's new foray into bond purchases has to lower long-term rates to succeed. The $600 billion is less than it has already spent. |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
Parsing the Fed's Statement: Experts Weigh In The Fed released some words; that means experts must analyze them. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2008
Shannon Zimmerman |
The Government's Latest Freakout The government is clearly freaked out, and rightly so. Sinking further into recession will have a ripple effect, with higher unemployment leading to shrinking tax revenues and, consequently, to greater levels of deficit-spending. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
May 21, 2009
James Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Fed Should Be in No Rush to Raise Rates Trading in the futures market already shows investors are betting the Fed will begin to lift its target interest rate within the coming year. But time is on Bernanke's side, and he won't want to jump the gun. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Eric Dutram |
Wednesday's ETF to Watch: PowerShares US Dollar Index Fund Today's Federal Reserve meeting in Washington, DC, but this ETF in focus. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bernanke, Paulson, and Geithner: Champs or Chumps? It's been a year since the financial markets went splat. Have government officials succeeded in combating the collapse? |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Fed: A Whole New Playbook for Tightening Now that growth is picking up, it'll soon be time to sop up excess funds. But given the unconventional easing of the past year, the old methods no longer apply. |
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
December 12, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Is the Fed Smart, Dumb, or Both? One day, the market thinks the Federal Reserve chairman is the dumbest guy on Earth. The next morning, he's the master of the universe. The reality is somewhere in between -- but try telling that to traders who get whipsawed repeatedly. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2006
Mike Norman |
Deja Vu for Fed? Despite yesterday's announcement by the Fed, history says economy may wobble for a while. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Doesn't Budge Bernanke holds rates steady. Here's why that was a good idea. |
