federal reserve chairman ben bernanke

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is in Germany, where he defended U.S. efforts to invigorate its economy with an aggressive bond-buying program.

The speech he made Friday at a conference of European bankers is making headlines. For more on the Fed chief's comments, Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel of The Wall Street Journal.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech in Germany Friday defending the Fed's recent move to buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds.

The move is called quantitative easing -- the idea is to stimulate growth in an economy that Bernanke says is still at risk.

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