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ThinkstockFive top European Union officials responsible for economic policy recently said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Our response to the crisis, which is based on an integrated approach by...
ThinkstockAs recently as a month ago, the consensus among economists was the Federal Reserve would cut back its $85 billion a month asset purchasing program. The economy appeared to be doing well...
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsYou have been warned not to use or to trust the Labor Department’s Employment Situation report for September. This was supposed to come out on October 4, but the...
ThinkstockA deal between Democrats and Republicans has supposedly been reached in Washington, D.C., to end the government shutdown and to end the debt ceiling expiration. While many people expect...
ThinkstockIt is going to be interesting to see exactly what happens with the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet under Janet Yellen. Ben Bernanke has decided to pass the buck down the line for her to...
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe Minutes from the September 17 to 18 FOMC meeting are not going to give the bulls nor the bears the smoking gun that they needed to build a case for a major rally nor...
Federalreserve.govNow that Janet Yellen is reportedly being appointed as the next chairman, or chairperson, of the Federal Reserve, the markets may get what they really wanted all along. Yellen...
The surprising move last week by the Federal Reserve to postpone the tapering of the $85 billion per month bond-buying program known as quantitative easing put some very strong wind at the backs of...
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveWe provided live coverage on the matter for about two hours before, during, and after the FOMC announcement, the Fed forecasts, and then in the Ben Bernanke press...
courtesy U.S. Federal Reserve24/7 Wall St. has been surprised by the FOMC with the decision not to begin tapering its $85 billion per month in bond buying. The markets were surprised too, because the...
ThinkstockWith this September Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting being a two-day one, we have a lot more to expect than just the statement with the policy decisions. Chairman Ben Bernanke...
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveIn the scheme of things, as far as the size of the economy and the massive amounts of credit capital that wash around the financial markets like a huge ocean, $10...
ThinkstockThe Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index rose in August to 113.54 from an upwardly revised 112.80 in July. While the number on the surface is small, it should stand out that the...
ThinkstockChicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans said this morning that he expects U.S. GDP growth to surpass 3% in 2014 and that inflation will be “moving back toward” the Fed’s...
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve issued some updates to its balance sheet and payments data on Friday, and the long and short of the matter is that you are going to see why the Fed needs to start its...