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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday fought hard to protect the independence of the U.S. central bank and keep responsibility for consumer protection on financial products in its hands.

Bernanke again fends off criticism, says central bank is up to challenge.

The Federal reserve has engaged in "aggressive policy actions" that may have helped avoid the collapse of the global financial system, according to the chairman Ben Bernanke. This week, the Fed chairman reported to Congress on the state of the economy and ongoing recovery efforts....

U.S. lawmakers question the Fed chairman's ability to steer the country through the economic crisis

Defender given his release Wednesday following second scuffle in as many months with a teammate

The Fed Chair Continues to Face Sharp Criticism in Congress on the Central Bank's Involvement with Economy

Ben Bernanke is showing us the door. In a newspaper editorial and Congressional testimony on Tuesday, the Federal reserve chairman detailed the central bank's strategies for sucking excess liquidity out of the economy when it begins to recover. His stratagems make sense, but will require expert timing.

workers and retirees. The action, which the PBGC announced Wednesday, affects about 70,000 hourly and salaried workers and retirees of the nation’s largest maker of automotive parts. Delphi ha...

I've been writing about having a small business website, in 8 Options to Quickly Build a Web Presence for your Startup, about using a blog to promote your business in Building success By Blogging: An Architect's Story and even about Smart Blogging Strategies. Today we're going to explore the magic of a technology called RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS lets you publish content on your site, and have other people easily view it on many other sites. For example, you could add this column to a program called a "feed reader" and then every time it is published, you would see it in your feed. You'd click on the "Feed button." You'll be presented with choices - you could add the feed to your Google,Yahoo, or AOL custom home pages, or take the 'raw' version of the feed and add it to a program like News Gator http://www.newsgator.com/individuals/default.aspx which lets you read feeds on mobile, in windows or mac, and even within your Outlook inbox. If you added the feed

Only the Federal reserve is fit to perform exams of the largest, most systemically important financial institutions, a senior U.S. Treasury department official said Wednesday.