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...The International CosPlayboy Award 2023 Winner: Ben Kohn, Playboy Attempting to live up to its name (and former reputation), Playboy bought a plane, and then had to sell it....
...Donald Kohn, former Fed vice-chair, commented at Jackson Hole that the Fed’s contribution to innovation was “to achieve the dual mandate”....
...It’s a tragic tale, one as old as time, but didn’t stop boss Ben Kohn from racking up around $920k of aircraft spending during that partial year....
...Playboy chief executive Ben Kohn said he chose to go public via a blank-cheque company, or special purpose acquisition company (Spac) because of its “efficiency” versus a traditional initial public offering...
...Everything is viewed through the prism of the election coming in less than four weeks,” Mr Kohn said....
...And to put a bunny tail on it, Playboy Enterprises chief executive Ben Kohn said yesterday he had chosen to go public through a Spac because of its “efficiency” versus a traditional initial public offering...
...“Drew’s idea for the podium created a stepped landscape which brought different disciplines together, but all that was hidden later,” Kohn adds....
...By joining Brookings, Ms Yellen is following in the footsteps of her Fed chair predecessor, Ben Bernanke, who left the central bank in 2014 and joined the think tank as a distinguished fellow in residence...
...Mr Taylor, as a career academic economist, might not be the natural consigliere that Donald Kohn was for Ben Bernanke, and then Stan Fischer was for Janet Yellen....
...Sam Fleming talks to Donald Kohn and Joseph Gagnon about the prospect of higher interest rates and Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts....
...“The Fed recognised after the crisis it needed to go out and explain itself to a broader audience,” Mr Kohn says....
...Back at the beginning of 2010, Ben Bernanke gave a long account of what he thought happened....
...–Ben Bernanke, October 15, 2002 Policy accommodation—and the expectation that it will persist—is distorting asset prices....
...On New Year’s Eve 2007, with the subprime meltdown accelerating, Ben Bernanke wrote a blunt email to US Federal Reserve colleagues Don Kohn and Tim Geithner....
...Ben Bernanke was the US Federal Reserve chairman who used quantitative easing to fight the Great Recession of 2008-9, so it is fitting that he has the best line on how QE works....
...(Also, Ben Bernanke et al had written a book arguing in favour of explicit numerical inflation targets in the interim, which may have influenced a few people.)...
...–Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility, by Ben Bernanke and Mark Gertler (1999) That thesis became conventional wisdom in the years leading up to the recent financial crisis....
...The list of those being deposed in Mr Greenberg’s case alone includes: Hank Paulson, former Treasury secretary; Tim Geithner, his successor; Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chairman; and Don Kohn...
...Donald Kohn Mr Kohn, 70, retired in 2010 after spending 40 years at the Fed, including as a governor from 2002 and vice-chair for the final four years....
...Mr Summers’ withdrawal leaves Ms Yellen the apparent frontrunner, with Tim Geithner and Donald Kohn in the wings should the politics shift. But does it really matter?...
...Kohn’s role as consigliere to Ben Bernanke during parts of the financial crisis and its aftermath might appeal to the president, whose advisers have leaked their (and presumably his) preference for a candidate...
...If Ms Yellen and Mr Fischer form a tight unit their strong personalities would lead them to dominate the Fed even more thoroughly than the top duo of Ms Yellen and Ben Bernanke do today: any policy endorsed...
...He could even make an aggressive pitch to persuade current chairman Ben Bernanke to stay for at least a couple more years....
...The 2005 nomination of current chairman Ben Bernanke did not come until late October....
...Indeed, reports suggest that the White House is unlikely to announce a successor to Ben Bernanke this week....
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