Yellen and Bernanke are the two figures who preceded Jerome Powell as Fed chair, with Yellen serving in that role from 2014 to 2018 and Bernanke from 2006 to 2014. Yellen became Treasury Secretary ...

Yellen and Powell have, predictably ... And the Fed, under Ben Bernanke, had slashed interest rates to near zero and kept them there, while also trying to inject more money into the economy ...

A Reuters columnist recently mused that “Jerome Powell may lay claim to being the most successful Fed chief in history.” Unlike his predecessors, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, Powell does not ...

Market volatility tends to be three times greater during a press conference held by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell than under his predecessors, Janet Yellen and Ben Bernanke, according to ...

But now, Warsh seems to think that Bernanke and his successors, Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell, went too far. Warsh was seen as a close ally of Bernanke’s when the two served together on the Fed ...

“If you thought firing Powell was bad in terms of market ... Obama did name his own Fed chair, Janet Yellen, in 2014, rather than give Bernanke a third term. Still, administrations have publicly ...

That compares to an average fall of 2.41 bps in the last hour on Fed days under Powell's predecessor, Janet Yellen, and an average drop of 7.99 bps under Yellen's predecessor, Ben Bernanke.

Powell is not the smartest guy in the room. He’s no dummy, but he doesn’t have the intellectual sparkle that his recent predecessors — Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan ...

Unlike many of his predecessors as head of the Federal Reserve, including Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell isn’t a professional economist; he trained as a lawyer.

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke both indicated in separate remarks Thursday that they thought the US would likely avoid a recession. “For a long ...