You're thinking of buying a home in 2014 and there are economic changes coming. How will this affect you? Ben Bernanke has finished his 8 year run as the Chair of the Federal Reserve. Janet Yellen is taking over as chair and has previously served as the Vice Chair. They have the same fundamental economic background but the Federal Reserve has big decisions ahead of them. The Federal Reserve has been buying bonds to keep interest rates low. Two months ago the Fed decided to start tapering (0 comments)