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The Federal Reserve seemed to abandon its independence at the start of the credit crisis. Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury chief Henry Paulson worked arm-in-arm to combat a collapse in the US bank...
China announced that its trade surplus in October was $27.1 billion. The news will certainly be used by the US and other Western developed nations to show that China continues to manipulate the yuan...
The head of the Dallas Fed and a regular opponent of the central bank’s plans, Richard Fisher, took issue with a number of the Federal Reserve’s recent decisions. He did concede a few points to...
Germany attacked the Federal Reserve’s QE2 program. So did China. And, so did most of the nations which have begun to prepare for the G 20 summit on November 11th and 12th in South Korea. The...
It may feel like it was a generation ago when the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its all-time high of 14,198.10. But that was almost three years ago – October 11, 2007. The index then dropped...
We already got past the election news in a hurry.  Now we know what the FOMC’s version of quantitative easing, or QE2 by many in the press, will look like.  The Fed had been worried about...
The elections are over and the Republicans took over the House but not the Senate as expected.  Today is D-Day for Quantitative Easing or QE2… Decision Day.  Now it is time to deal with the...
It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 and a decision due around 2:15 PM EST...
Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head.  What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind each day.  QE2 may also be the epitome of...