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The recovery remains "frustrating slow" in the United States, and now Europe's debt crisis is posing additional challenges, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Thursday.

Republican leaders in Congress have asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to refrain from any further monetary stimulus during policy makers' two-day meeting ending Wednesday.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that central bank policymakers will take a closer look next month on whether they should take additional short-term steps to jumpstart economic growth.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was back on Capitol Hill Thursday, warning that failure by Congress to raise the debt ceiling would be "a calamitous outcome."

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated the U.S. economy is at a crossroads Wednesday, telling Congress the central bank is prepared to either provide further stimulus or pull back from intervening.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke heads to Capitol Hill this week in the center of many storms swirling around Washington and Wall Street.

The economy lost some momentum recently, Ben Bernanke acknowledged Tuesday, but the Federal Reserve chairman is still optimistic that the recovery will pick up again in the second half of the year.

If Ben Bernanke goes to sleep at night cursing the names of Barack Obama and Paul Ryan, you can hardly blame him.

The Federal Reserve chairman's job has just gotten a lot tougher.

William McChesney Martin, Jr., the Federal Reserve chairman during the 1950s and 1960s, famously joked that it's the job of the central bank to "take away the punch bowl just when the party is getting started."

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that unbalanced flows of money between nations is again posing a risk to the global economy and financial stability.