San Francisco Fed

Ben Bernanke: Solving a Crisis, Changing the Fed

Ben Bernanke’s contributions to economic thinking have been vast, from his extensive study of the Great Depression to groundbreaking research on the interplay of finance and the macroeconomy and the ...
The Harvard Crimson

How Fed Chair Ben Bernanke ’75 Discovered Economics at Harvard

As a still-undecided sophomore, Ben S. Bernanke ’75 did what hundreds of Harvard students have done for decades: enroll in Economics 10, the school’s introductory economics course sequence. “I didn’t ...
San Francisco Fed

Ben Bernanke: Solving a Crisis, Changing the Fed

Good morning. It’s an honor to be part of this esteemed panel celebrating Ben Bernanke’s contributions to economics. I will discuss Ben’s time as Chair of the Federal Reserve.1 Let me begin by taking ...