UPDATE 5.24.23: Since writing this post nearly ten years ago, gold prices have climbed from $1,325.71 per ounce to $1,975.12 per ounce. Originally posted September...

This is an old video, but still relevant.

So how are things going? Thanks to Ben Bernanke, not so well. You see, the Fed Chairman has decided that the way to artificially pump up the economy is to clamp the lid on the interest rates for two more years. The target rate on Fed funds is now basically zero. Such historically low borrowing costs are just dandy for Washington’s favorite New York trading crowd at Goldman Sachs, but far from fine for the savaged Boca Goldmans, Sid and Rhonda.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is promoting his new book, The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath, writing...

In 2010, Larry Ellison paid $10.5 million for the Astors' Beechwood mansion on Bellevue Ave in Newport, RI not far from my office. And based...

Imagine outgoing Chairman Ben Bernanke joyfully wrapping things up at the Fed while humming “tiny bubbles make me feel happy” from Don Ho’s song...

As Ben Bernanke prepares for life after the Fed one thing we learned from his predecessor Alan Greenspan is that they live in a...

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s easy money truck should be garaged. His so called taper is laughable. But don’t tell him that he’s been Mr....

Here The Wall Street Journal points out Janet Yellen's weakness on inflation, something I've been talking about for a while. And in 1995 she said...

Janet Yellen is the leading candidate to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Some are saying she will be tough on inflation but I’m...