Tag: Federal Reserve

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, speaks during a session on "shaping the future of the marcoeconomic policy-mix" at the International Symposium of the Banque de France in Paris, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Conservative group asks for equal time with Yellen

Joseph Lawler · November 18, 2014 8:11 pm

Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2014, during the committee's hearing with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to examine the Financial Stability Oversight Council annual report to Congress. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Warren and Manchin: No Wall Street insiders for Fed posts

Joseph Lawler · November 18, 2014 4:34 pm

Fed Governor Jerome Powell called reference rates like LIBOR "one of the foundations of the financial system." (AP image)

Regulators, bankers to hash out reform of manipulated interest rates

Joseph Lawler · November 17, 2014 5:37 pm

U.S. economic growth faces fewer risks of a disappointment and the Federal Reserve is better positioned to avoid mistakes than in past episodes, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Fed’s Dudley says the central bank will avoid past mistakes in raising rates

Joseph Lawler · November 13, 2014 3:25 pm

Worker groups to ask Yellen for Fed transparency

Joseph Lawler · November 11, 2014 2:00 pm

U.S. job creation fell short of expectations in October, even as the labor market continues to gain strength in 2014. (iStock Photo)

Job gains fall short of expectations in October

Joseph Lawler · November 7, 2014 2:03 pm

GOP megadonor: US economic data is ‘fake’

Joseph Lawler · November 4, 2014 9:47 pm

The talk between President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen was the first time the two had met by themselves since Yellen was installed as Fed chairwoman. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama, Yellen talk Dodd-Frank, economy

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2014 9:56 pm

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President and CEO Richard Fisher (AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Fed stimulus skeptic praises Yellen’s ‘balance’

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2014 9:00 pm

Bank regulators are set to take one more step so taxpayers won't have to bail out banks deemed too big to fail. (iStock Image)

Feds try to keep collapsing banks from crashing economy

Joseph Lawler · November 3, 2014 10:00 am

Ending the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program while inflation remains low threatens the central bank's credibility, Narayana Kocherlakota said Friday in an explanation of his "no" vote on the Fed's policy decision Wednesday. (AP image)

Fed official explains his QE ‘no’ vote

Joseph Lawler · October 31, 2014 7:30 pm

Security flaws at government agency endanger private financial information of millions of consumers. (iStock Photo)

IG sees massive security flaws in CFPB’s consumer financial info database

Richard Pollock · October 31, 2014 5:34 pm