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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveIt was just last week that we accused the Federal Reserve presidents and governors of wishing they could take back their wording and statements made in the January 20 to...
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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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Jon OggJeffrey Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve, is out with what are becoming more and more routine comments talking about dissension inside the Federal Reserve. Lacker is...
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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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thinkstockThe appears to be yet even more room for stimulative and easing measures. That is at least what Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS) is implying, based on its global inflation outlook released on...
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Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, has commented on his dissenting vote in a statement issued by the Richmond Fed this morning. Lacker is growing concerned that guidance...
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FOMC Chairman Ben Bernanke is speaking Monday to the Economic Club of Indiana in Indianapolis with his speech titled “Five Questions about the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy.” As far as a...
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Gold had hit yet a new six-month high of $1,779.10 per ounce in early bird trading today after the Bank of Japan decided to ease via an expanded asset purchase plan. The theory is that gold bugs will...
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In remarks this morning in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans offered a strong endorsement of last week’s FOMC decision to begin a third round of quantitative...
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William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Federal Reserve, was speaking today. Unlike other critical voices of QE3 from Dall Fed President Fisher today and from...
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Another Federal Reserve president is talking against the notion of more and more quantitative easing. This morning’s appearance by Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher on CNBC was out talking...
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Banks are back in favor. The most recently announced round of quantitative easing via mortgage-backed securities purchases from the Federal Reserve follows a ratings action earlier this year in...
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The European Central Bank’s outlook was hardly given notice as the world was focused on Ben Bernanke and the FOMC’s new round of quantitative easing. The ECB is on the way down the path of its...
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At the core of the Federal Reserve evaluation of the economy as it embarks on QE3 sits its forecast for job creation. The “central tendency” figures in the forecast from the Federal Open Market...
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The eurozone bailout approval and the coming announcement (or continued hint) of additional quantitative easing from the FOMC is not adding to the banks at the current time. We saw a “Sell the...
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