Tag: Federal Reserve

JanetÂ Yellen's core assumption is that there is a link between unemployment and inflation. In anÂ economy operating below full strength, a falling unemployment rate should lead to higher inflation. (AP Photo)

Is America facing its own ‘Lost Decade’?

Joseph Lawler · October 17, 2015 4:01 am

"The decision to begin the normalization process at the September [monetary policy] meeting seems less compelling to me than it was a few weeks ago," William Dudley said. (AP Photo)Â

Fed official acknowledges confusion over interest rates

Joseph Lawler · October 15, 2015 5:49 pm

In this Dec. 18, 2008 file photo, then Federal Reserve Board of Governors-designate Daniel Tarullo is shown in Chicago. The Fed, having done so already, is now considered likelier to prop up big firms whose collapse could endanger the entire financial system. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, file)

Fed governor warns against raising rates this year

Joseph Lawler · October 13, 2015 7:20 pm

Brainard said she was presenting the case for "watching and waiting" for signs that the Fed is on track to meet its goals of low unemployment and stable prices.Â (AP File Photo/Reed Saxon)

Fed official: Overseas turmoil enough to keep rates at zero

Joseph Lawler · October 12, 2015 9:34 pm

Job growth has weakened in the past two months, with two straight job reports falling short of expectations and raising doubts about the strength of the economy.Â (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Historic split in the jobs data may hold the key to the economy

Joseph Lawler · October 11, 2015 4:01 am

Evans suggested other Fed officials may be wrong to think inflation will rise from its recent low levels. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Chicago Fed president: ‘Inflation has been too low for too long’

Joseph Lawler · October 9, 2015 6:13 pm

Narayana Kocherlakota, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, saidÂ "the lesson of 2014 is clear: We can do better."Â (AP Photo/John Locher)

Fed official: No rate hike until 2017

Joseph Lawler · October 8, 2015 6:08 pm

Bernanke: More financial executives should have gone to jail

Joseph Lawler · October 4, 2015 8:59 pm

Schools can get their default rates adjusted through an appeals process to the department. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Republicans turn a skeptical eye on effects of federal college aid

Joseph Lawler · October 4, 2015 4:01 am

Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley FischerÂ said he does not see any major threats to the stability of the financial system, in the housing market or anywhere else.Â (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

No ‘acute risks’ of financial crisis, says Fed no. 2

Joseph Lawler · October 2, 2015 6:35 pm

James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, left, and Allan H. Meltzer, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, at the lunch break of the Economic Policy Symposium at Jackson Hole in Moran, Wyo., Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Fed official: Raising rates, slowly, is the ‘most prudent course of action’

Joseph Lawler · October 2, 2015 5:28 pm

Federal Reserve finds that people with high credit scores are better at relationships.

Hey, babe, what’s your credit score?

Joseph Lawler · October 1, 2015 7:58 pm