Stock market crash

...for it. Yet they looked back 80 years, too. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, had literally written the book on the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. There were obstacles, reversals and regional...

In this article: Capitalism, Recession, Credit crunch, Economics, Goods and services, Waste, Ben Bernanke, and US Federal Reserve

...Democratic doubts and only... "Roosevelt Institute Celebrates A New Agenda for America": Eliot Spitzer, Elizabeth Warren And 13 Others Reflect On The 80-Year Anniversary Of The Stock Market Crash Of 1929 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben...

In this article: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Derivative, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Citigroup Inc, and Bankruptcy

...1987 stock market crash to monitor markets. It includes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Bernanke said the group's recommendations...

In this article: Henry Paulson, SEC, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Wall Street, U.S., and Inflation

The Fed's first grave mistake, in their view, was the tightening of monetary policy that began in the spring of 1928 and continued until the stock market crash of October 1929 (see Hamilton, 1987, or Bernanke, 2002a, for further discussion).

In this article: The Fed, Recession, Inflation, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and Wall Street

"The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers," wrote Mr Bernanke, who grew up in Dillion, South Carolina.

In this article: Ben Bernanke, The Fed, Alan Greenspan, United States, Inflation, Economics, Bankruptcy, National Press Club, Tim Geithner, and George W. Bush

...in 1931 when it failed to respond forcefully enough to the collapse of several global banks, and allowed the recession that followed the stock market crash of 1929 to erupt into a full blown depression. "I was not going to be the Federal...

In this article: Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama, The Fed, Alan Greenspan, Wall Street, Larry Summers, White House, Economics, and Rob Nichols

...Paul A. Volcker, who had to contend with the most intractable bout of inflation since World War II, and Alan Greenspan, who faced the 1987 stock market crash, the Asia currency crisis of 1997-98 and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Yet...

In this article: Ben S. Bernanke, The Fed, Inflation, Unemployment, and Timothy Geithner

...not repeat the mistakes of 1937 when he claims the stimulus was withdrawn too quickly. Yet that was a full eight years after the stock market crash. Indeed many on Wall Street assert any cutting back on Fed programs, limits on banker pay,...

In this article: Steven Pearlstein, The Fed, Wall Street, FDIC, Washington, D.C, U.S., Oligopoly, Tax, Unemployment, and Inflation

By Kristina Cooke Wall Street had its worst day since the 1987 stock market crash on Wednesday, as bleak economic data fed worries that all the efforts to unlock credit markets may not stave off a severe recession. Federal Reserve...

In this article: Recession, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq, S&P 500, Caterpillar Inc, Ben Bernanke, State Street Corp, S&P, Federal Reserve, and New York Stock Exchange