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  • COLUMN-Bernanke's dangerous optimism: James Saft Tuesday, 21 May 2013 | 2:59 PM ET

    May 21- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an optimist about economic growth in the coming decades, rejecting "depressing" views about a slowdown to put his faith in collaborative innovation driven by a jackpot culture for inventors. Bernanke, speaking last weekend to graduates at Bard College at Simon's Rock, in Massachusetts, was having nothing of it.

  • Central Banks Are Repeating Greenspan’s Mistake Wednesday, 15 May 2013 | 12:00 AM ET
    Alan Greenspan

    Central banks around the world are repeating the mistakes of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan by flooding markets with cheap money, according to Brunel University's Moorad Choudhry.

  • Slow Growth Emboldens Fed to Stay the Course Thursday, 9 May 2013 | 1:47 PM ET

    The slowing growth in prices has further emboldened the Fed to maintain its bond buying.

  • TORONTO, May 2- It's looking like an unsettling spring in Canadian housing, a market that has proven far more even-keeled and less scary for investors in recent years than in the United States.

  • TORONTO, May 2- It's looking like an unsettling spring in Canadian housing, a market that has proven far more even-keeled and less scary for investors in recent years than in the United States.

  • Bernanke Watch: Is He Eyeing the Exit? Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 7:03 PM ET
    Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Federal Reserve

    As the Fed meets this week, all eyes are on Bernanke as Wall Street is buzzing that he will be leaving soon. Who will take his seat? Here's the one name that keeps coming up.

  • This Possible Fed Successor Has Admirers...And Foes Thursday, 25 Apr 2013 | 6:40 AM ET

    Janet Yellen is seen as a logical candidate to succeed the Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, but critics remain wary of her stance on inflation.

  • Bernanke to Skip This Year's Jackson Hole Meeting Sunday, 21 Apr 2013 | 3:56 AM ET
    Ben Bernanke

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will miss the annual Jackson Hole monetary policy symposium this year due to a scheduling conflict, skipping the prestigious event for the first time since taking the helm of the central bank in 2006.

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will miss the annual Jackson Hole monetary policy symposium this year due to a scheduling conflict, skipping the prestigious event for the first time since taking the helm of the central bank in 2006..

  • TOKYO/ FRANKFURT, April 18- It is your first day as the new U.S. But playing it could make Ben Bernanke and his global counterparts long for simpler times. "There was a time, not too long ago, when central banking was considered to be a rather boring and unexciting occupation," European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said this week.

  • Wall Street Soars as Rest of Economy Limps Along Monday, 15 Apr 2013 | 11:20 AM ET

    The economy seems split in two, with the profits of the nation's largest companies and the stock market soaring as the rest of the economy continues to struggle.

  • U.S. insider stock sales send up red flag for investors Thursday, 11 Apr 2013 | 10:40 AM ET

    NEW YORK, April 11- With the Dow hitting so many fresh highs of late, some investors may be dusting off the 1999 bestseller "Dow 36,000," a book that briefly made "irrational exuberance" seem quite rational.

  • The stock market is significantly undervalued by historical calculation, said Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. "The reason why the stock market has not been significantly higher is there are other factors compressing it lower. But irrational exuberance is the last term I would use to characterize what is going on at the moment."

  • Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, explains why he believes the markets are "significantly undervalued," and provides his outlook on the economy.

  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 12- With the U.S. jobs market showing signs of healing, economists think they know what's next for monetary policy: the Federal Reserve will at some point taper its monthly bond purchases, and soon after, end them altogether.

  • The GOP rejected the Democrats $110 billion sequester avoidance plan, reports CNBC's Eamon Javers; and what the impact might be on the economy if the sequester goes into effect, with Alan Greenspan, Former Federal Reserve Chairman.

  • COLUMN-The speculator republic: James Saft Wednesday, 2 Jan 2013 | 4:31 PM ET

    Jan 2- Short term movements in the stock market don't tell you much, and one of the main things they don't tell you is how to make public policy. The idea that a given policy can be justified by its impact on the stock market, or that movements on the stock market in and of themselves call for public policy is one of the great fallacies of our time.

  • NEW YORK, Dec 20- A subtle shift in monetary policymaking is afoot with a new generation of central bankers, striving to secure global economic recovery, prepared to challenge the old doctrine of inflation-fighting at all costs.

  • Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan discusses why there is no painless solution to the "fiscal cliff," and whether a deal can get done by the end of the year.