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The former Fed Chair, Ben Bernanke, has joined the masses on Twitter, mostly, it seems, to promote …

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"I emphasize that, because our asset purchases depend on economic and financial developments, they …

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The topic of this session is lessons learned from the financial crisis. For me, perhaps the central…

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Bernanke cannot be forced to sit for a deposition because high-ranking U.S. government officials ar…