Bernanke faces grilling on fiscal stimulus stance
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Ben Bernanke has tried hard not to follow his predecessor Alan Greenspan into the political arena by commenting on fiscal policy, but the Federal Reserve chief will find it difficult to stay above the fray this week.
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WASHINGTON  - US Federal Reserve policymakers met, poised to raise key interest rates to remove some of the cheap-money stimulus washing through the economy.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke will testify on July 19 and 20 on the Fed&#039;s semiannual  monetary policy report, congressional committees said on  Monday.
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Fed Chairman Bernanke struck a familiar chord Wednesday but with some concern about subprime problems spilling into the broader economy.
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Ben S. Bernanke said he favored quick passage of an economic stimulus package in combination with the Fedâs own measures to support economic growth.
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Republican White House hopeful Fred Thompson made light of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's call for a quick economic stimulus Thursday and said it might be best to leave the economy alone for now.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday the U.S. economy's prospects were worsening because of a weak housing sector and credit market turmoil and said the central bank was ready to act aggressively to bolster it.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke looks set to tell Congress this week that the U.S.  economy is sound, but that the central bank is still concerned  that inflation, while moderating, may not fully come to heel.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, criticized last year for being too tentative in cutting interest rates, has shown he can act boldly. But the Fed's two aggressive rate cuts in the past eight days have left investors demanding still more.
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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says a fiscal stimulus programme could lift the US economy.
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernanke is suggesting that policy makers look for ways to encourage a wider range of mortgages geared for low-income and other borrowers who have been hard hit by the housing slump and credit crunch.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday said the U.S. central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter a deep housing slump and credit market strains that were putting economic growth at risk.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday threw his support behind efforts to craft an economic stimulus package and repeated that the U.S. central bank was ready to act aggressively to counter recession risks.
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Bernanke signals that recession--not inflation--worries him for now. Open the floodgates.
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The U.S. economy is poised to expand  at a moderate rate and "uncomfortably high" core inflation  should slow, but inflation risks are "primarily to the upside,"  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday warned lawmakers that as the country's baby boomer generation ages, funding shortfalls to government programs such as Medicare and Social Security will create an unsustainable fiscal situation.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today that lawmakers should enact a fiscal stimulus package to help beleaguered consumers as recession fears grow. Economists and politicians are increasingly worried about fallout from the subprime mortgage meltdown.