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Report says lack of ‘intellectual diversity’ at senior level and too wide a range of priorities led to errors and fall in public confidence

The Bank of England (BoE) has been strongly criticised for failing to predict the surge in inflation. Had it done so, it could have reacted more quickly and prevented inflation from rising as high as 11% in autumn 2022.

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

Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, will lead a review of the Bank of England’s economic forecasting amid concern that inaccurate predictions about growth and inflation hampered the central bank’s efforts to combat Britain’s cost-of-living crisis

As chair of the Federal Reserve during the finanial crisis and a Nobel Prize winner, Ben Bernanke is among the world’s most well-known economists

Buffett's idea to inject capital into banks instead of buying assets proved to be a success in the 2008 financial crisis.

Jim Grant has been writing the “Interest Rate Observer” every week since 1983—and routinely making prescient predictions.

If one plans to read only one economic analysis article for this year, this is it.

History remembers Paul Volcker as the slayer of inflation, and Ben Bernanke as the crisis firefighter. Jerome Powell is in danger of having to play both roles at once — or, what may be worse, to choose between them.

The Bank of Canada “resolutely” declared it will fight inflation by raising interest rates. To demonstrate its unwavering commitment to reaching the bank’s two per cent inflation target, today’s eighth consecutive interest rate hike brings the policy rate to 4.5 per cent. The bank expects to hold the rate for…

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