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A US trio on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for research on banking's role in the economy, especially on the importance of avoiding collapses during financial crises.

A trio of US economists including Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for research on how propping up failing banks can stave off an even deeper economic crisis. Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 prize for their…

A trio of U.S. economists including former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke won this year's Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for laying the foundation of how world powers now tackle global crises like the recent pandemic or the Great Recession of 2008.

Fed chief Jerome Powell wants the world to understand his present decisions are guided by past traumas.

Ben Bernanke, who led the Federal Reserve during the global financial crisis, observed that the art of setting monetary policy was 98% talk and 2% action. A significant rebalancing of that equation would be welcome after communications upheavals this week roiled markets and seemed to reveal a high degree of…

Stagflation

A consensus has formed that the Federal Reserve waited too long to start tightening money. Ben Bernanke, the former Fed chairman, has said so. Janet Yellen, another former chairman who now serves as Treasury secretary, has implicitly agreed, saying that she, like many other observers, underestimated how high inflation would…

Stagflation

High inflation tends to break out when economic growth is really roaring.

The former Federal Reserve chairman warned of a coming economic morass in the next decade.

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On March 28, 2007, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke assured Congress that the U.S. housing crisis “is likely to be contained.”