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Trump taps Kevin Warsh as new Fed chair

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2026
... and acquisitions team, was an economic advisor to the Bush Administration, and was the youngest-ever Federal Reserve Governor, serving from 2006 to 2011. Warsh was a finalist for the job in 2017, when Trump instead appointed Powell. Commonwealth Bank ...

Key finance figures in Biden Cabinet

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... economics world is Janet Yellen, whom Biden has nominated to lead the US Treasury. Yellen is the former US Federal Reserve governor. She was also the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration. Yellen was ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... lift-off wouldn't come in September or December but in September AND December. According to Reuters, "Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell on Tuesday said the U.S. economy could be ready for a first interest rate hike in September followed by a second ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
... their domestic economies while making the rest of the world beggars. Great Depression II here we come. US Federal Reserve Governor (and Depression scholar) Ben Bernanke should sit with Barrack and Jiabao and show them what could happen if they continue ...

TARP or TRAP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... (TARP) were not approved. The duo emphasised the urgency of the swift passage of the bail-out package. US Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke warned that the US financial system faces grave threats and fears that economic growth in the second half ...

We'll cut rates again if we have to: US Fed

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
US Federal Reserve governor Ben Bernanke has warned that he is ready to cut rates further if that is what is necessary to shake the US economy out of its slow slide into recession, raising speculation that the AUD and oil prices will continue to skyrocket. ...

Jay-Z versus Greenspan

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2007
... to tell me about the state of our economy. I just need Jay-Z, the new Alan Greenspan," he said. Both Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke and his colleague, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher have been quite vocal in reassuring the world there's no ...

Weekly economic roundup

... motor vehicle sales. This second-tier data should have no significant impact on markets. Speeches by US Federal Reserve Governor Moskow (Wednesday) and Chairman Greenspan (Friday) should have bigger influence on this week's market activity.
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