Chairman Bernanke can be faulted for not anticipating the severity of the global financial crisis, however he deserves some credit for helping stabilize the financial sector at a time of unprecedented instability.

There is a limit to the degree domestic regulation can go without severely impairing the global competitive economic advantages that the United States has enjoyed for so many decades.

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On January 31, Alan Greenspan will chair his last Federal Open Market Committee meeting. As Council of Economic Advisers chairman Ben Bernanke takes over Greenspan’s position, the economy faces a number of vexing challenges, such as high...

Chairman Greenspan was one of the earlier identifiers of the emerging acceleration of productivity during the 1990s.

Fracking technology has the potential to multiply the world's supply of natural gas and emit less in the way of greenhouse gases--unless environmental advocacy groups slow the wheels of change.

While GAAP is required of everybody else, the Federal Reserve banks choose to follow their own special accounting rules created by the Federal Reserve itself.

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman's main message for central banks was to maintain a monetary rule that kept the growth of the money supply constant, and would certainly not favor the Federal Reserve's current inflationary plan.

A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume I: 1913-1951 (University of Chicago Press, November 2002), by AEI resident scholar Allan H. Meltzer, includes previously unpublished records of official meetings and conversations at the time of creation of the Federal Reserve System. Meltzer reveals that the...