Posts Tagged ‘ Bernanke ’
What Taper Tantrum? And, Will Yellen Pull a Bernanke?
Aug 30th, 2015 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Alpha Strategies, Indexes, Macroeconomics
The head of the New York Fed said on Wednesday, August 26th, that "the decision to begin the normalization process at the September FOMC meeting seems less compelling to me than it was a few weeks ago." We may be about to see another Fed retreat, analogous to that of a little more than two years ago. Read More
Griffin, Bernanke, and the Saud family
Apr 27th, 2015 | Filed under: Currencies, Alpha Hunters, Alpha Strategies, Indexes, Macroeconomics
Why has Ken Griffin, the founder of Citadel, hired former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke as a Senior Advisor? This decision represents a surprise given Griffin's views on "quantitative easing," views he forcefully expressed a couple of years ago. Read More