For decades, the central bank believed talking openly made its policy work better. Its new chairman believes the opposite.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. economy is facing the worst inflation spike in a generation, but former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday the price spike is not "anywhere near" what Americans experienced in ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke steps to the lectern Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyo., he’ll have the weight of a struggling economy on his shoulders. With financial markets sliding and the ...

Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during the Financial Markets Conference in Stone Mountain, Georgia, U.S., on April 4, 2011. Bernanke said he expects an increase in ...