Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Ben Bernanke, from Most Powerful Economist in the World to Blogger


Ben Bernanke, from Most Powerful Economist in the World to Blogger
Wall Street Journal  March 30, 2015
by John Hilsenrath
Look out economics bloggers. There’s a new guy in town.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is launching his own economics blog

Ben Bernanke Just Started Blogging, and Already He's in a Great Blog Fight With Larry Summers
Bloomberg  April 1, 2015
Lorcan Roche Kelly

Well, that didn't take long.
On Monday, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke started a blog at the Brookings Institution, and it has taken him only two days to get into a proper argument.


Ben Bernanke: from Fed Chair to blogger and tweeter
CNN Money  March 30, 2015


Bernanke, who led the Federal Reserve through the recession, launched his economics blog with the Brookings Institution Monday.
Now, since he is no longer controlling U.S. monetary policy, he's free to make his remarks without the burden of everyone on Wall Street meticulously examining his words.

His influence is still huge, however. After just two tweets, Bernanke's account, @benbernanke, has over 11,200 followers. Many reports say Bernanke fetches $250,000 or more for a speech these days.





For the first time in history, a former Chair of the Federal Reserve is blogging. According to Ben Bernanke, his new Brookings Institute blog will be about “economics, finance, and sometimes baseball”. Apart from occasional speaking engagements, the public has not heard much from Bernanke since he left the Fed in early 2014 upon reaching the end of his second term as Fed chair and handing off the reins to current Fed chair Janet Yellen. With Bernanke’s new blog, we may unexpectedly be getting frequent updates from the former Fed chair at a critical time for the Fed as it decides when to raise its key benchmark interest rates, potentially sometime this year.



Read Ben's Blog Here  

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