Evans Says Jobless Rate May Rise as Progress ‘Transitory’
Finance Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said the drop in the unemployment rate to 8.5 percent may be partially reversed in coming months.
Fed to Weigh Further Easing Amid Doubts About Recovery
Finance Friday, January 13th, 2012
Federal Reserve officials are seriously considering giving the US economy—and especially the housing market—an added jolt with more quantitative easing.
Fed’s Once-Secret Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public
Finance Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Bloomberg News today released spreadsheets showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks and companies that tapped Federal Reserve emergency programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis. It’s the first time such data have been publicly available in this form.
Monetary Theory, Crony Capitalism and the Tea Party
Finance Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
The past few years have taught us a lot about the effects and operations of monetary policy in the United States.
U.S. Economy ‘Expanding Moderately’
Finance Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Federal Reserve policy makers said the U.S. economy is maintaining its expansion even as the global economy slows, while refraining from taking new actions to lower borrowing costs.
Liberty Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
From InfoWars.com Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate for reform of the Federal Reserve, is sharply criticizing the Federal Reserve today after Bloomberg news reported that the Federal Reserve secretly committed nearly $8 trillion in support to American and international financial institutions during the 2008 bailout. Kucinich recorded a video for his website before [...]
Finance Friday, November 11th, 2011
By Brent Bodowsky, The Hill With Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and almost the entire Republican Party now imitating Ron Paul on the matter of Federal Reserve policy, let me suggest where I think Dr. Paul is brilliantly right, where I think he is disastrously wrong, and why I believe there is now a substantial danger [...]
Activism Thursday, October 6th, 2011
From: Infowars Press Release Public sentiment has shifted– against the trends of Washington and Wall Street– and now, against the private Federal Reserve bank which controls or influences so much of the world’s finances. Where as only a few years ago many Americans were unaware of the true nature of the shadowy organization, recent polls [...]
Breaking News, Finance Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
By: JeeYeon Park, CNBC.com Stocks came off their worst levels, but still finished sharply lower Thursday in heavy-volume trading as a gloomy outlook from the Federal Reserve in addition to ongoing economic jitters fueled concerns of a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 391.01 points, or 3.51 percent, to finish at 10,733.83, led by [...]
Finance Friday, September 16th, 2011
By Neil Irwin and Michael Birnbaum, The Washington Post Worried that a mounting debt crisis in Europe could trip up the global economy, the Federal Reserve opened its vault Thursday to the central banks of other countries in an effort to head off a crippling shortage of dollars. The main recipient of the Fed’s money [...]