Instead of the Fed focusing on short-term goals, their focus should be on long-term inflation reduction, encouraging businesses to be more certain with their investments.

The latest interest rate cut is too late to prevent a recession in the first half of 2008, but it does give hope that the Federal Reserve will not repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression.

As the confirmation hearings for the new Fed chairman approach, the most intriguing questionsare those Mr. Bernankemust be contemplating quietly on his own.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would be wise to learn from the Titanic and slow his second experiment with quantitative easing, the expansion of the central bank’s balance sheet known as QE2.

A proposed financial regulatory agenda for Ben Bernanke.

In considering the timing of the Federal Reserve's exit strategy, Chairman Ben Bernanke should not underestimate the potential fallout of a Greek failure on the U.S. and global economies.

The reality of Ben Bernanke's press conference did not live up to the hype. The discussion was dry and undramatic and could only have been torpor-inducing to anyone outside the economics profession. In the pursuit of a notion of openness, the Fed will have lost its mystique.