Everyone experiences a little bit of stress from time to time and European banks are no different.

Last month, members of the European Council agreed that a new set of stress tests would be applied to 91 publically-traded banks across the continent to prevent another banking crisis.

 Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke/Flickr

BY DEB WEINSTEIN — MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Speaking via satellite to an audience of over 200 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s annual Bank Structure and Competition conference, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined what he called “lessons of the crisis.”

The major lesson: Oversight [...]

BY CECI RODGERS

Some 20 years as a financial reporter and in my third year as an instructor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, you’d think I’d have a lot to say about the credit crisis and the government’s financial bailout.

Actually, I do,  and so does my former business/economics reporting student Holly Fox. But [...]