Bernanke to Skip Jackson Hole on ‘Scheduling Conflict’: Reuters
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will miss the Jackson Hole monetary policy conference this year, Reuters said, citing an unidentified Fed spokeswoman.
Bernanke is currently not planning to attend the meeting in August because of a “personal scheduling conflict,” Reuters cited the spokeswoman as saying. It would be the first time that Bernanke will miss the event since taking charge of the Fed in 2006, and the first time in 25 years that a Fed chairman will not attend the meeting, Reuters said.