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Ben Bernanke

April 2024

  • Bank of England in City of London.

    Bank of England forecasts undermined by out-of-date methods, report finds

  • Ben Bernanke

    Do better: Bernanke gets strict with Bank of England over handling of inflation crisis

July 2023

  • Ben Bernanke

    Ben Bernanke to lead review into Bank of England forecasting errors

    Former Fed chair appointed as Bank faces pressure to explain why economic forecasts have been so wide of mark

October 2022

  • Ben Bernanke wins Nobel economics prize 2022 for work on banks – video

  • Ben Bernanke

    Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke wins Nobel economics prize 2022

May 2019

  • Lehman Brothers, New York, 2008

    Project Syndicate economists
    Bernanke, Paulson and Geithner: revisiting the 2008 financial crisis

    Howard Davies
    Three of the key players co-author a book about lessons of the past and make proposals for the future

September 2018

  • Lehman Brothers: Artwork and Ephemera sale

    Ten years on, the Fed’s failings on Lehman Brothers are all too clear

    Laurence M Ball
    The key policymakers have always maintained they had no choice but to let Lehman collapse. That’s simply not true, says author Laurence M Ball

March 2017

  • Janet Yellen, chair of the US Federal Reserve

    Q&A: What will happen if the Federal Reserve raises US interest rates?

    Janet Yellen, the Fed chair who has been criticised by Donald Trump, is set to raise rates for third time since financial crash

November 2016

  • Bernake testifies on federal bailout plan on Capitol Hill<br>US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appears at a Joint Economic Committee hearing on the federal economic bailout plan, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA on 24 September 2008. The Bush administration is pushing the Congress to pass a 700 billion dollar government bailout plan to rescue financial institutions.  EPA/SHAWN THEW

    The Audio Long Read
    The cult of the expert and how it collapsed - podcast

    Led by a class of omnipotent central bankers, experts have gained extraordinary political power. Will a populist backlash shatter their technocratic dream?

January 2016

  • Chinese foodsellers wait for customers at a Beijing market. The country’s economy grew at its slowest rate in 25 years last year.

    No global economic crisis yet, but the ingredients are there

    The days when one country’s economic woes could be insulated from the wider world have long gone. China’s problems could have a fearsome domino effect

December 2015

  • Gordon Brown

    Gordon Brown to join investment firm Pimco's global advisory board

    Former prime minister joins ex-chairman of US Federal Reserve and an ex-president of European Central Bank on five-strong panel

October 2015

  • Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Federal Reserve

    Ben Bernanke says Wall Street executives should have gone to jail

    Former Federal Reserve chairman says individuals, in addition to firms, should have been held accountable for the financial crash

June 2015

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

    Ben Bernanke is 'appalled' – leave $10 bill alone and put woman on a $20 bill

    The former head of the US Fed argues against Alexander Hamilton losing his spot but says dump Andrew Jackson and make room for a woman

April 2015

  • Ben Bernanke

    Pimco recruits ex-Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke

    Bernanke joins bond giant as senior adviser – a move that could renew concerns over his relationship with Pimco during Fed reign

December 2014

  • Bernanke Yellen

    US money blog
    The Economist leaves Janet Yellen off its list of most influential economists

  • Lord King says the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008 meant the banking crisis became an actual rather than theoretical problem.

    Mervyn King: reacting to financial crash was ‘exciting’

October 2014

  • Janet Yellen

    Economics blog
    Quantitative easing: giving cash to the public would have been more effective

    The impact of quantitative easing was blunted by unconventional monetary policies and conservative fiscal policies
  • US Money Ben Bernanke

    US money blog
    The biggest sales job in the US: Obama and Ben Bernanke try to convince America the economy is good

    ‘There is a lot of revisionism out there,’ the former Fed chair said Wednesday. But as he and others protect their legacy, are they trying to make the economy look better than it is?
  • US Money ben Bernanke

    US money blog
    Ben Bernanke ran the Federal Reserve and can't get a new mortgage. Can you?

    More Americans should be as eager to refinance their mortgage as the former Federal Reserve chairman

February 2014

  • US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gives her first testimony to Congress.

    Fed transcripts from 2008 reveal inner workings as US teetered on the brink

    Janet Yellen’s jokes pepper Federal Reserve members’ struggle to describe severity of financial crisis as it developed
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