Tag: Federal Reserve

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Fed on track to end bond purchases despite market volatility

Joseph Lawler · October 20, 2014 3:58 pm

In letters made public Oct. 17 to the Federal Reserve Board and the Comptroller of the Currency, Issa and Jordan cited passages from a 2013 FDIC letter in which a regional director "effectively ordered a target bank to terminate all relationships with payday lenders." (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Congressional probe finds federal regulators targeted legal businesses

Sarah Bedford · October 19, 2014 10:18 pm

Janet Yellen speaks out on inequality

Janet Yellen speaks out on inequality

Joseph Lawler · October 17, 2014 1:21 pm

WASHINGTON, DC - Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen warned that the low volatility might reflect overconfidence in the Fed's plans for rate hikes. (Getty images/Mark Wilson)

Fed officials no longer worried about the markets being too calm

Joseph Lawler · October 17, 2014 9:00 am

Federal regulators expect to finish writing this year a long-overdue mortgage regulation that was one of the most important provisions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law. (iStock Photo)

Dodd-Frank mortgage rule nears the finish line

Joseph Lawler · October 15, 2014 7:02 pm

Monday's meeting included Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, right, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, left, Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry, and other top U.S. financial regulators in addition to Gruenberg. (AP Photo)

U.S., U.K. regulators meet to game out a big bank failure

Joseph Lawler · October 13, 2014 5:56 pm

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke arrives at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014, to testify in a suit on the US government's 2008 bailout of (AIG) American International Group Inc. in a trial of a lawsuit filed by the insurance giant's former CEO over the handling of the rescue.( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Bernanke defends AIG bailout in court

Marcy Gordon · October 9, 2014 9:54 pm

Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Paulson admits he saw the big banks as indispensible

Timothy P. Carney · October 8, 2014 2:13 pm

President Barack Obama meets with financial regulators for a discussion on the economy and to receive an update on implementation of Wall Street Reform, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama applauds financial chiefs for Dodd-Frank implementation

Joseph Lawler · October 6, 2014 6:29 pm

Life insurance company MetLife will challenge regulators' proposal to label it a "systemically important" financial firm and regulate it like a bank.Â (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

MetLife challenges regulators’ ‘systemically important’ label

Joseph Lawler · October 3, 2014 9:23 pm

Even Ben Bernanke Is Struggling …

Geoffrey Norman · October 3, 2014 12:09 pm

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has previously warned that lenders have set their credit requirements too strictly in the wake of the housing crash.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Bernanke can’t refinance his mortgage

Joseph Lawler · October 2, 2014 9:21 pm