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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThis will sound highly counterintuitive, but the extremely weak payrolls report from the Labor Department may in fact be good news for those who have wanted an...
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ThinkstockRegional presidents of the Federal Reserve have been active in speaking out for or against the measures and impact of all of the quantitative easing measures of late. The latest comments...
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Jon OggThe market is paying attention to Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart today regarding an end to quantitative easing. While some investors may be keying off of the “end of this year” in...
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ThinkstockChicago’s Federal Reserve President Charles Evans is generally considered to be a more dovish Federal Reserve member. In his speech today, it does not appear is that there is going to be...
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ThinkstockWhen New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley spoke in New York today he didn’t really say anything new, but he did underscore a point that he and several other Fed officials...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe less things change, the more time everyone has to speculate about what might happen if things do change. As expected, the Federal Reserve’s FOMC today announced...
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ThinkstockWe are now within ten days of the release of the Federal Reserve’s new round of stress tests on how the nation’s largest banks will do if (or when) the economy goes back into a...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its minutes of the January 29 to 30 FOMC meeting. The general conditions were positive and the caution was mostly around the weather at the time. While we...
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ThinkstockInterest rates have been kept at historically low levels by the Federal Reserve since the Great Recession began in 2008. The intent behind this was to spur loan activity and borrowing to...
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Jon OggToday was far from a normal Fed-day as the FOMC announcement followed a GDP release that was negative for the first time in 13 consecutive quarters. Some things are the same and some things...
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ThinkstockThe Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve announced this morning that the agencies have reached an agreement with 10 banks to settle enforcement actions related...
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ThinkstockIn a speech today in Baltimore, Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker said that he agrees with the view of most economists that U.S. inflation will be “a little less than 2 percent” in...
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ThinkstockJeffrey M. Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, was speaking today to the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Economic Outlook Conference. As many of you, Jeff...
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Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo said in a speech this morning at the Brookings Institution that there remains one significant task in the reform of the financial system: [T]he most important...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has been aiming all it can to keep the economy going. If you have been following Fed policy for years it is fairly amazing to watch. That is true even if it is...
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