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Free the Fed! -- to issue bonds
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The powers of the Federal Reserve have become so vast that the central bank could almost qualify as the fourth branch of government. Its balance sheet has more than doubled to an
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Fed more worried about deflation than inflation
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The US Federal Reserve is more concerned about deflation than inflation, Wendy Edelberg, a Fed economist, said yesterday at a conference in Beijing. She added that this was her own opinion. The Fed is
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Sympathy for Greenspan
- 18 Hours ago
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J. Bradford DeLong In the circles in which I travel, there is near-universal consensus that America's monetary authorities made three serious mistakes that contributed to and exacerbated the financial
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Banks trim borrowing from Federal Reserve
- 20 Hours ago
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WASHINGTON â?? Banks borrowed less from the Federal Reserveâ??s emergency lending facility over the past week and cut back on other programs designed to ease the financial crisis, encouraging signs that
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Rates hinge on Fed exit strategy
- 7/3/2009
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. interest rates in the second half will likely move on perceptions of how the Federal Reserve handles paring its burgeoning balance sheet and ending emergency funding programs,
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Fed's Evans: Growth Ahead
- 7/1/2009
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Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans said on Wednesday he expected the U.S. economy to grow in the second half of this year and was looking for 2.5 to 3 percent growth in 2010. Evans, speaking
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Dour Fed Chatter
- 7/2/2009
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Recent talk from Federal Reserve officials goes to show that you really get to know a person once they leave the office. Over the past week a handful of speeches have, in many ways, offered more insight
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Systemic regulator plan right approach-NY Fed head
- 23 Hours ago
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NEW YORK, July 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. proposal for a systemic risk regulator to ensure firms are not taking the type of excessive risks that could destabilize the economy is the right approach but it
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Does Bernanke deserve a second term?
- 7/3/2009
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Ben Bernanke's stint as Federal Reserve chairman has been checkered at best, says Desmond Lachman -- surely there are better candidates out there?
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Ron Paul's 'Audit the Fed' bill on fast track
- 7/3/2009
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The legislation introduced by Texas Republican Ron Paul to audit the Federal Reserve is gaining momentum as more US lawmakers are rallying to support for the bill. According to Press TV, the Libertarian
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Fed's Evans calls for tackling too-big-to-fail issue
- 7/1/2009
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LONDON, July 1 (Reuters) - No single adjustment can solve the problem of how to deal with the failure of systemically important financial institutions, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans
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Yellen says Fed should not rush to reverse policy
- 7/1/2009
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By Ros Krasny SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top Federal Reserve officials said on Tuesday the central bank should not rush to raise interest rates or remove other accommodative policies as soon as the U.S.
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Yellen: Fed can use 'every bullet' in its arsenal
- 7/1/2009
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve can use 'every bullet' in its arsenal to boost the economy without much fear of kicking up inflation because of the huge output gap, San Francisco
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Fed-funds futures lower odds of rate hike
- 7/2/2009
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Interest-rate futures traders pared expectations Thursday that the Federal Reserve will raise benchmark rates by the end of the year after a worse-than-expected June jobs report
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Auditing the Fed
- 7/2/2009
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by George F. Smith Recently by George F. Smith: Murphy Sets the Record Straight An MP3 audio version of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available as a free download. If Ron Paul succeeds in getting
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Fissures Appear At N.Y. Fed
- 7/2/2009
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The board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is packed with powerful executives. But the selection
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Federers effort pays dividendsÂ
- 7/2/2009
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Five-times champion Roger Federer took the sting out of Croatian Ivo Karlovics venomous serve to win 6-3 7-5 7-6 and book his place in a 21st straight Grand Slam semifinal at Wimbledon yesterday. Also
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Dont throw the keys to the Fed
- 7/2/2009
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THE OBAMA administrations plan to close the existing regulatory gap by using the Federal Reserve Bank as the main systemic-risk regulator is theoretically sound but a bad idea under existing Fed structure.
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