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Bernanke: Jobless Rate To Stay High Even In Recovery

The U.S. jobless rate is likely to stay high even once the nation exits recession some time in the next few months, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Sunday.

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Jonathan Handel: Octomom the Musical Opens in LA to Sellout Crowds

The Octomom is not the only character skewered in the zany musical: others include Bernie Madoff, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and Vince Shamwow (of magic towel fame).

Jodie Allen: Needed Medicine: A Dose of Inflation?

it’s worth asking if a carefully monitored dose of inflation, might be the fastest — and maybe only — way to spring America free of its debtor’s shackles.

Sheldon Filger: Bernanke to Congress: I Don’t Know to Whom We Gave Half a Trillion Dollars

The Fed and its chairman have made many errors in judgment, not the least their overly-optimistic pronouncements when the first tremors from the sub-prime meltdown arose.

Bernanke To Congress: Fed Has Exit Strategy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sought to assure Wall Street and Congress Tuesday that the U.S. central bank will be able to reel in its extraordinary economic stimulus and prevent a flare up of inflation when the reco…

Bernanke Fends Off Calls To Tame The Fed

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped steer the economy away from what he calls “Depression 2.0.” Now he’s trying to defend the Fed itself.

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The Recession is Over

Could our long national nightmare be over? The economic contraction, this Great Recession, began in December 2007, and there’s no apparent end in sight. As the unemployment rate has spiked, analysts have thrown cold water on Federal Reserve Ch…

Sheldon Filger: Will China’s Economic Crisis Worsen Due to Stimulus Spending?

How ironic that the savior of global capitalism is determined to be the largest Communist state still in existence.

Geithner: Stimulus Working, Derivatives Blindsided Government

WASHINGTON — Despite persistently high unemployment, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday the Obama administration’s economic stimulus plan is on the “expected path.”

“There’s been substantial improvements in arresting what w…