Ben Bernanke

by Comstock Partners In starting a second round of quantitative easing (QE2), the Fed is gambling on a program that has little potential upside and a substantial amount of risk. In the first round (QE1) the Fed bought $1.7 trillion of…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009). On Friday, October 15, 2010, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S.…

Here is something interesting.  The Chinese have reversed policy on diversification into the yen. It was my assumption that the Japanese government's objections would be acknowledged by the Chinese and that they were not the most…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). "I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I…

It's inflation that the Federal Reserve is after. Everyone knows this. The Fed has made it explicit. The sentence from the FOMC that Marshall highlighted yesterday shows you that: "The Committee will continue to monitor the…

by Annaly Capital Management We attended Chairman Bernanke’s lecture last Friday at Princeton University, primarily because there was going to be open Q&A. As it turns out, despite our eagerly raised hand we were not called, the…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009). It is unfortunate the media does not make better use of an…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke delivered a much-anticipated…

From the BBH Currency Strategy Team Highlights The US dollar is mostly weaker vs. the majors but remains in very narrow trading ranges ahead of the weekend. EUR/USD is still having trouble moving above the 1.27 area, and is likely to…

By Doug Hornig of Casey Research This coming Friday and Saturday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will sponsor its annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It’s a chance for Fed officials, foreign counterparts, and academic…