Bernanke defends Fed’s low-interest-rate policies
Bernanke moreover sought to calm fears that super-low rates risk igniting inflation or rattling investors, during a speech late Friday in San Francisco to an economic conference sponsored by the San...
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Toolmanship
When using a wrench, it’s best to pull (see left image). If you do need to push, use the heel of your hand. That way if the wrench slips, you won’t bark a knuckle. Pull, don’t push. When using a...
View ArticleWhat Happens When The Federal Reserve Stops Artificially Boosting The …
To quell the latest financial crisis, the Federal Reserve smashed interest rates to the floor by buying bonds with money it effectively prints. Since 2008 assets on the Fed’s balance sheet, including...
View ArticleAre You Hosting Harmful Organisms?
The infestation of the intestinal invaders can mimic many different illnesses. These invaders, believed to be the root cause of many illnesses, present a particular threat to the intestinal tract when...
View ArticleHow The Federal Reserve Became History’s Biggest Bad Bank
Every time a plane crashes, a team of engineers & aviation experts jump into action, methodically reconstructing the event to determine the cause—whether mechanical failure, offensive design, pilot...
View ArticleFederal Reserve to vote on Basel bank capital rules
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will vote on Tuesday on long-awaited international rules for banks to use more equity capital to fund their business, a critical part of a global drive to make...
View ArticleTaperyun' Is Nuthin Compard ta t'Fet’s Real Challenge, Sez Funk
N' t'eiite yeers at Be Bernanke has run t'Fedral Reserve, investers have had ta ackwunt thayselves wit all serts o'new jargon an' monetree tactics. Frum TARP ta ZIRP ta QE one, acoupla an' three,...
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T' Strengths Janet Yelle Brings Ta A'runnin T' Fet
Quik thoughts un t'nominashun o'Janet Yelle ta chair t'Fedral Reserve: Librul er conservatif'? Thishere is nairy my litmus test. By at meesure, Presdint Obamie is unlikelee ta appoint innyone I would...
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T' Real Problem Isn’t Janet Yelle, It’s T' Conceit At Is T' Fet Itself
Wen Presdint Barock Obamie nominatid Fedral Reserve vice chairmun Janet Yelle ta take ov'r as Fet chairmun aft'r Be Bernanke departs n' Januree, t'markets purret a sigh o'relief. T' Fet’s adherance ta...
View ArticleT' impendyun' reversal n' Fedral Reserve policy remuns t'biggest risk fer …– 4
SHOWS: SINGAPerE (NOVEMBER 8, 2013) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL) MARK MATTHEWS, Hed O' RESeeRCH ASIA, BANK JULIUS BAER 1. (Questchun GRAfIC) ‘Is t'rallee n' emergyun' markets goin ta fizzle out if'n t'Fet...
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USD/CAD – Edges Har As Markets Eye Fedral Reserve Minnuts
By Kenny Fish'r USD/CAD has movet slightlee har un Tuesdee, as t'pair continues ta trade n' t'mid-1.04 range. N' ekunomic noose, Tuesdee has a lite skejule, wit jes one data releese out o't' U.S....
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Taperyun' Is T' Rite Deecishun fer Fedral Reserve
Gree Cameron / Reuters T' mos impertant market shift n' t'las fife yeers has begun. Contrree ta expectatyuns, t'Fet announcet Winsdee at it would cummence taperyun' back un its $85 billyun a month...
View ArticleFedral Reserve policy still poses risks, Kansus Citee Fet presdint sez
Geerge, presdint o't' Fedral Reserve Bank o'Kansus Citee, citid “unintendet, negatif' side effecks” at t'Fet’s kuntinued policees' may have un finanshul institutyuns. Thay could “undermine air bes...
View ArticleI Don’t Pledge Allegyince ta Cass Sunstein
Whutever else one mite say about Cass Sunstein, he surelee knows who his'n enemies air. T' ferm'r hed o't' White Trayler Offus o'Informayshun an' Regulatery Affairs an' memb'r o' t' Presdint’s panel un...
View ArticleT' Greet Recession! It’s rite behin y'all!
Thar is a deliciyus moment n' t'popcern thrill'r Air Ferce One, a summ'r blockbust'r n' which terrerists hijack t'itular plane an' t'presdint o't' Unitid States, playd by a steel-gazet Harrisen Ford,...
View ArticleFet’s Bullard sees potenshul risk o'bubbull as easy policy unwinds
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A bubbull could form n' t'U.S. ekunomy eve as t'Fedral Reserve unwinds its accommodatif' policy, a top U.S. cantral bank'r sed un Thirsdee, addyun' policymakers’ abiltee ta spot...
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U.S. Bancerp Receives Results o'Comprehensif' Capital Analeesis an' Revu …
MINNeePOLIS, Mar 26, 2014 (Bizness WIRE) – Today t'Fedral Reserve discloset t'results o't' 2014 Comprehensif' Capital Analeesis an' Revu (“CCAR”). Aft'r a revu o' t'Cumpny’s CCAR results, t'Fedral...
View ArticleHow Important Are Hedge Funds in a Crisis?
FRBSF Economic Letter 2014-11 April 14, 2014 How Important Are Hedge Funds in a Crisis? Reint Gropp Before the 2007–09 crisis, standard risk measurement methods substantially underestimated the threat...
View ArticleFederal Reserve may shun global risk rules banks spent billions to meet
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve may scrap international measures aimed at assessing bank health in favour of imposing its own rules, frustrating bankers who have spent billions of dollars...
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What the Federal Reserve could learn from the biology of risk
Financial risk-taking is more than an intellectual activity — it’s a “profoundly physical experience,” researcher John Coates writes in a op-ed piece in The New York Times Sunday. And the biggest risk...
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