Ben Bernanke has been approved to serve a second four-year term as chairman of the US Federal Reserve, the country’s powerful central bank. Superhero Ben Bernanke Photo Credit To FreakingNews.com The US Senate voted 70-30 in favour of Mr Bernanke, handing him the narrowest victory ma...

Nouriel Roubini, a/k/a “Dr. Doom,” is giving the Obama administration’s new plan to buy toxic assets the thumbs up. That may be surprising given how critical Mr. Roubini, the bearish economics professor at New York University, has been in the past regarding various government plans to...

Americans can be forgiven for experiencing a sense of deja vu as they digest the details of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) for troubled bank assets. What was rolled out on the pages of newspapers this week read like press releases on the ...