When I was in high school, I was the champion of the annual SAT in California. My college entrance examination score reached 1.590, and the distance was only 10. When he graduated from high school, because of Bernanke's outstanding performance in all aspects, he won the highest honor of American high school graduates, "American Scholarship for Outstanding Students".
Starting from 1975, Bernanke got the best economics score at Harvard University, and received his Ph.D. from 1979. When studying for a doctorate at MIT, Bernanke was most interested in two things: the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Boston Red Sox baseball team. "In the first fall after entering MIT, I skipped many classes just to watch the baseball league." Bernanke recalled. That year, the Boston Red Sox lost the game, and he still feels sad about it. At the same time, Bernanke's keen interest in the Great Depression made him concentrate on thinking and studying the causes of the Great Depression, and began to pay attention to the threat of deflation to the economy for a long time. Most of Bernanke's life is closely related to the campus. After finishing his studies, he directly changed his identity into a teacher engaged in academic work. 1979- 1983. Dr. Ben Bernanke is an assistant professor of economics at the Graduate School of Stanford University. 1983- 1985, once an associate professor of economics at Stanford university graduate school. During this period, he published a far-reaching paper, analyzing the root causes of the stagnation of American economic development in the 1930s. Instead of paying attention to the damage caused by the Federal Reserve's laissez-faire decline in the money supply, he turned his attention to the failure of the US financial system.
From 65438 to 0985, Dr. Ben Bernanke transferred to Princeton University as a professor of economic and political affairs; From 65438 to 0996 to 2002, he became the head of the Department of Economics of Princeton University, attracting many economists for this prestigious school. During his tenure as the head of the economics department of Princeton University, Bernanke not only made great academic achievements, but also showed his talent in coordinating interpersonal relationships. He never thinks he is smarter or more powerful than his colleagues, but he is used to listening to different voices. He has never been involved in political disputes. During his teaching activities, Dr. Ben Bernanke was also a visiting professor of economics at MIT (1989- 1990) and new york University (1993).
On August 5th, 2002, Dr. Ben Bernanke joined the Federal Reserve as a candidate member of the decision-making committee, and was elected as a full member of the Federal Reserve Committee on June 4th, 2003. In June 2005, Bernanke served as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. But in fact, before he officially entered the Fed, Dr. Ben Bernanke had already held some positions in the Fed. He is the Federal Reserve Bank of Delfia (1987-89), the Boston Federal Reserve Bank (1989-90) and the new york Federal Reserve Bank (1990-9 1). On June 65438+February 65438+June 2009, Beijing time, Time magazine announced that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was elected as the person of the year in 2009. Bernanke is considered to have handled the financial crisis properly and successfully avoided deflation.
The reason given by Time magazine for Bernanke's election is that under the background of financial crisis and even economic crisis, his "creative leadership" has not made the situation "worse".
"Recession is the theme of this year," Richard Staengel, editor-in-chief of Weekly, said in a statement on the magazine's website. Without Bernanke, the situation would be even worse. " Michael grunwald, a senior journalist, said that Bernanke "helped to ensure that 2009 will be a year of weak recovery rather than catastrophic recession with his creative leadership", "has unparalleled control over money, occupation, savings and the future of the country" and is "the most important player leading the world's most important economy".
20 1 1110 in October, according to Forbes magazine, the Forbes 2011list of the world's most powerful people was released a few days ago. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is responsible for supervising the monetary policy of the world's largest economy.
20 1212 On February 6th, Forbes published the list of the most influential people in the world in 2012, which listed 7 1 the most important people in the world, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke ranked sixth.