Federal Reserve Chairs Flashcards

Fed Chairs Recent Chairs of the Fed Reserve

Alan Greenspan

• Term: 1987-2006
• Authored "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World" and "The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting"
• "The Map and the Territory" includes a chapter on the 2007 credit crisis.

Ben Bernanke

• Term: 2006-2014
• Authored "Essays on the Great Depression"

Janet Yellen

• Term: January 2014 - February 2018
• Co-authored "The Fabulous Decade: Macroeconomic Lessons from the 1990s" with Alan S. Blinder
• Affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley

Jerome "Jay" Powell

• 1st Term: February 2018
• 2nd Term: May 2022