Tag: Federal Reserve

With inflation expected to rise and unemployment projected to fall, the taper is likely to continue despite negative economic growth. (ThinkStock)

Federal Reserve prepared to lower two big projections

Joseph Lawler · June 16, 2014 10:00 am

Asian stocks go sideways ahead of Fed meeting

Asian stocks go sideways ahead of Fed meeting

Kelvin Chan · June 16, 2014 4:17 am

Three years after it was proposed, one of the major post-crisis mortgage regulations is on track to be finalized -- but on terms much looser than originally envisioned.ÃÂ (Thinktock Image)

Feds look to water down mortgage reform

Joseph Lawler · June 14, 2014 9:00 am

Nominees, from left: Stanley Fischer, to be vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Jerome H. Powell and Lael Brainard, to be members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors; Gustavo Velasquez Aguilar, to be an assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; J. Mark McWatters, to be a member of the National Credit Union Administration Board; raise their hands as they are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 13,prior to their testifying before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on their nominations. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Senate confirms two Federal Reserve nominees

Joseph Lawler · June 12, 2014 8:08 pm

The share of small businesses saying that a lack of sales was their single most important problem fell to the lowest level since December 2007. (Thinkstock)

Small businesses see a huge sign of improvement in the economy

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2014 5:30 pm

President Ronald Reagan gestures while addressing federal executives during a ceremony at the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1988. (AP/Barry Thumma)

Republicans should reclaim Ronald Reagan’s economic voice

Lawrence Kudlow · June 9, 2014 9:47 pm

The Labor Department's jobs report disappointed for a second consecutive month Friday, bringing the news that the U.S. created just 113,000 jobs in January, as the unemployment rate fell to 6.6 percent.

The Fed’s unofficial new goal

Joseph Lawler · June 9, 2014 10:40 am

Steve Forbes: Link dollar to gold or face Great Depression II

Steve Forbes: Link dollar to gold or face Great Depression II

Paul Bedard · June 3, 2014 5:14 pm

Beginning in late March, roughly two months after his Federal Reserve chairmanship ended, Ben Bernanke gave several high-priced private-dinner talks for major hedge-fund players and banks.. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Ben Bernanke’s loose lips are driving the financial markets

Lawrence Kudlow · June 2, 2014 3:37 pm

The week ahead in economics: The European Central Bank’s experiment

Joseph Lawler · June 2, 2014 1:15 pm

The truth about the student loan ‘bubble’

The truth about the student loan ‘bubble’

Joseph Lawler · May 30, 2014 9:00 am

Assembly line workers build a 2015 Chrysler 200 automobile at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

It’s official: The economy shrank in the first quarter

Joseph Lawler · May 29, 2014 1:28 pm