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The Republican presidential campaign is breathing new life into the Founding Fathers. In recent months, Republican candidates have invoked these original American statesmen to provide powerful political precedents on issues as diverse as the Me Generatio
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A panel of three noted economists who advise the president of the United States on macroeconomic matters. The council consists of a chairman and two other members, all of whom are appointed by the president and approved by the Senate. Its primary goals a
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The phrases “Federal Reserve Bank” and “Valentine’s Day” haven’t appeared in too many sentences together. But this is the social-media age, and so it was perhaps inevitable that someone in the Twitterverse started a thread for people to send valentines t
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Meet the new underclass -- the four million Americans who have been unemployed for more than a year. With every additional week out of work, their chances of finding a job dwindle. It turns out that many employers don't want to hire the currently unemplo
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The Republican presidential campaign is breathing new life into the Founding Fathers. In recent months, Republican candidates have invoked these original American statesmen to provide powerful political precedents on issues as diverse as the “Me Generati
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(For more columns, click on NI RISKLESS .) Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Israel, under threat of war from its neighbors since being founded in 1948, produced better risk- adjusted returns than all other developed stock markets in the past decade as the technolo
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I have not been kind to Ron Paul and his participation in the Republican primary campaigns and it has taken me a while to understand why he is doing this. It is clear that he wants to be around to influence the Republican platform and the issue about whi
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I've highlighted those bullet-point PROPOSALS where I believe there are real opportunities for improving government within the next four years and dimmed those that I think are merely symbolic or horse-before-the-cart points. Those that need more conside
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HCM Custom Charts Expect some volatility in the Euro this week should there be any questions raised over the Greek Bailout. The resignation of the German President Mr. Wulff failed to deliver any volatility to the markets with EUR/USD hovering around 1,3
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Dear John: I just got notification that NYS businesses are losing a portion of a Federal Unemployment Tax Credit (FUTA) because Albany and 20 other states have had outstanding federal loans for two years. I think it is an outrage that businesses are payi
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Back in the Gilded Age, venality was the rule in Congress. Bribes were as common as tobacco pipes. Lawmakers fattened their bank accounts through insider deals, with the needs of ordinary people an afterthought. Nelson Aldrich, a powerful Republican who
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Some members of Congress have been accused of insider trading, so they wrote a new law to halt the practice. Is a law necessary to force Congress to do the right thing? Probably not, but the recent scrutiny given to the cozy relationships between members
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Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The market for U.S. Treasuries is embracing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s view that signs of improving growth mask threats to the nation’s economy, keeping inflation in check. Traders are betting that government debt y
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The room seemed barely big enough for 15 or 20 people, but it easily took in more than twice. Downstairs, a very harassed Lisa Neuder raced around helping visitors find parking slots where none existed. Upstairs, Matt Niesenoff led guests into impossibly
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Ironically, as central bankers turned to inflation targeting, with short-term interest rates as their primary tool, the forces of globalisation were relentlessly striking at the roots of both: the entry of large economies into the global market for labou
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Editor's Note : Jeffrey Frankel is Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University. For more from Frankel, visit Project Syndicate or follow it on Facebook and Twitter. By Jeffrey Frankel , Project Syndicate With November’s election in t
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U.N. Development and Humanitarian chiefs Helen Clark and Valerie Amos called Saturday for greater humanitarian r
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Bottom Line: Compared to last summer for the three and six month periods ending in July 2011, inflationary pressures fell significantly towards the end of last year and in the first month of 2012 for the three and six month periods ending in January. Inf
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On Matt Yglesias' reading of "Ben Bernanke and the Zero Bound," Laurence Ball is saying that Bernanke needed to be more of a jerk: Former Treasury Secretary and former National Economic Council director Lawrence Summers has always suffered in the eyes of
About Ben Bernanke
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Ben Shalom Bernanke (pronounced \ber-NAN-kee\, \bər-'nan-kē\ or \bɚ.ˈnæn.ki\) (born December 13, 1953) is the incumbent Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan on February 1, 2006. He is ranked 4th most powerful person in the world in an annual ranking by Newsweek. Full Article
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks about housing markets in transition at the International Builders' Show organized by the National Association of Homebuilders in Orlando, Florida February 10, 2012.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke takes his seat as he arrives for a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee February 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The hearing was to examine 'The Outlook for U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy.'
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 02: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies during a House Budget Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. Bernanke stressed the importance of enacting policies that would boost the economy in addition to cutting...
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US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies at the congressional hearing on 'The State of the US Economy' at the Canon House Office Building on the Capitol Hill on February 2, 2012. Bernanke told Congress Thursday that achieving a sustainable budget and debt balance should...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, before the House Budget Committee.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Budget Committee is visible on television screens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Bernanke is urging lawmakers to balance their desire to cut deficits with policies that could help...
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ORLANDO, FL- FEBRUARY 10: Incoming Chairman of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Barry Rutenberg (L) shakes hands with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke at the International Builder's show February 10, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. The Chairman spoke on the...
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U.S Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) points to a chart showing U.S. employment change per quarter over the past several years, as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (not pictured) testifies before a Senate Budget Committee hearing on the outlook for the U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy...
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives for a press conference announcing that the Fed will take no action on interest rates at the Federal Reserve Bank on January 25, 2012 in Washington, DC. Following the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting...
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke takes part in a news conference at the William McChesney Martin Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, following the January Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R- Wis. , presides over the committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified.
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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 14: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (C) arrives for a meeting with Republican senators in the U.S. Capitol December 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Bernanke briefed Republican senators on the potential fallout from Europe's debt crisis.
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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 14: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (L) walks with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) (C) in the U.S. Capitol December 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Bernanke briefed Republican senators on the potential fallout from Europe's debt crisis.
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ORLANDO, FL- FEBRUARY 10: A sign for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is displayed outside the International Builder's show February 10, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke spoke on the state of the economy and banking at the show.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke during a town hall meeting for soldiers and their families at Fort Bliss, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in El Paso, Texas. Bernanke on Thursday tried to reassure U.S. soldiers, a group hit hard by high unemployment, that the Fed is working to...
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