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Freedom Fighters Chris Cotter, Nancy Skinner, and Lenore Hawkins on the Fed's plans to monitor the Internet, and why Coca-Cola is choosing China Quotes delayed at least 15 minutes.

Wall Street hopes for more Fed action and clear signs European leaders will follow through on their new urgency to tackle the euro zone debt crisis if U.S.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya.

Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, may long for some of the praise that was once lavished on the man he succeeded, Alan Greenspan.

In a report to Congress, Ben S.

Your parents were right. Money can't buy you happiness. That was the message from the Federal Reserve chairman on Saturday to graduates of the University of South Carolina .

The Federal Reserve chief outlined a strategy, but not a timetable, for scaling back the extraordinary measures the Fed has taken to prop up the economy.

Reporting from Washington - Amid the political rancor over Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's bid for a second term, central bank officials encountered some dissension in their first policy-setting meeting of the year, even as they affirmed their pledge to keep interest rates at near zero for "an extended period." For the first time in a ...

Because several senators are using procedural methods to try to block Mr. Bernanke from serving another term, it will require 60 votes for him to be confirmed.

Ben S. Bernanke doesn't know how lucky he is. Tongue-lashings from Bernie Sanders, the populist senator from Vermont, are one thing.

The hangman's noose is another. Section 19 of this country's founding monetary legislation, the Coinage Act of 1792, prescribed the death penalty for any official who fraudulently debased the people's money....