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...Benjamin Friedman, an economist at Harvard University, said the Fed could not make industry more innovative or educate workers, which would improve productivity....
...“It is natural to feel worried given that history shows that when interest rates go ‘too low’ bad things happen,” says Benjamin Mandel, US economist at Citigroup in New York....
...Early officials such as Benjamin Strong, the inaugural president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, advocated price stability as a means of muting or even eliminating the business cycle....
...The Courage to Act: A Memoir of the Crisis and its Aftermath, by Ben Bernanke, WW Norton, RRP£22.99/RRP$35 Bernanke was at the helm of the world’s most important central bank during the financial crisis...
...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid, finance minister, said in a statement that they had chosen Mr Frenkel, whose appointment must be approved by the cabinet....
...Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to address the UN General Assembly in New York in a speech again expected to focus on Iran....
...Cutting to the chase: It is our opinion that Ben Bernanke’s “great moderation”, referred to above, was in fact a very dangerous illusion....
...Today Mr Obama meets Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, for the latest instalment in an unhappy relationship....
...Yours Faithfully, Dr (Mr) Benjamin Bernanke N/B: Please contact Mr Timothy Geithner on this e-mail address for further briefing and modalities....
...In this book, I have chosen to tell it by looking over the shoulders of the men in charge of the four principal central banks of the world: Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the Federal...
...He stated, “Bernanke is making a time-inconsistent promise to hold interest rates low for an extended period.”...
...The name Bernanke will appear on many more pages than Bush, King more often than Brown, and Trichet will trump even Sarkozy....
...The market’s best guess as to what the 10-year Treasury will yield in 10 years’ time is 2.78 per cent, never mind the famous (and now, as it seems, prophetic) remark of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that the...
...He married young to Carole Sonnenfeld, a college sweetheart, and has two children, Elise and Benjamin....
...That is why Benjamin Franklin, as “Poor Richard”, cautioned against debt. But times have changed. Low interest rates, securitisation and bankruptcy law have changed the nature of debt....
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