Tag: Monetary Policy

President Obama "has been pleased with the way that [Fed Chair Janet Yellen] has fulfilled what is a critically important job," said a White House spokesman. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama ‘pleased’ with Yellen’s Fed leadership

Joseph Lawler · April 11, 2016 9:48 pm

"This is an economy on a solid course," Fed chairwoman says at an event in New York. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Yellen: U.S. ‘not a bubble economy’

Joseph Lawler · April 7, 2016 10:15 pm

Yellen has emphasized that the Fed is likely to move its interest rate target with the "neutral rate" of interest, a subtle departure from talking only about economic growth or inflation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Yellen’s new emphasis for interest rates

Joseph Lawler · March 31, 2016 4:01 am

Left off Janet Yellen's list was negative interest rates, a concept that has generated a large amount of commentary and suspicion from the press and investors in recent months. (AP Photo)

Yellen suggests bond buying, not negative rates, if economy falters

Joseph Lawler · March 29, 2016 6:03 pm

Big changes in world markets have not significantly shifted the Fed's view that the economy is recovering. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Yellen: Fed will ‘proceed cautiously’ with rate hikes

Joseph Lawler · March 29, 2016 4:31 pm

Sixty-three percent of business economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economists predicted that a recession would not come until 2018. (AP Photo)

Business economists: No recession before 2018

Joseph Lawler · March 28, 2016 8:14 pm

Investors had expected a bump up in monthly core inflation, which strips out food and energy prices to make inflation less volatile and more predictable. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Inflation lower than expected in February in key gauge for Fed

Joseph Lawler · March 28, 2016 1:18 pm

Speaking in Savannah, Ga., Dennis Lockhart cited "sufficient momentum" in recent economic data to "justify a further step at one of the coming meetings, possibly as early as the meeting scheduled for the end of April." (AP Photo)

Fed rate hike may be needed as soon as April, official says

Joseph Lawler · March 21, 2016 5:28 pm

Since Ben Bernanke has left office, other central banks increasingly have turned to negative interest rate policies to supplement or substitute for quantitative easing. (AP Photo)

Bernanke: Negative interest rates could be ‘reasonable’

Joseph Lawler · March 18, 2016 3:56 pm

The decision from the Feds to hold their interest rate target steady came at the end of a two-day meeting of the central bank's monetary policy committee in Washington. (AP Photo)

Fed sees risks, leaves rates unchanged

Joseph Lawler · March 16, 2016 6:00 pm

When Janet Yellen and her Federal Reserve colleagues announce their monetary policy decision this week, investors will be looking closely for one phrase: "Nearly balanced." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Two words from the Fed everyone is listening for

Joseph Lawler · March 15, 2016 4:01 am

Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. economy faces a number of global threats that could hamper growth and compel the Fed to slow the pace of future interest rate hikes. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Key data point falls into place ahead of Fed meeting on interest rates

Joseph Lawler · March 14, 2016 6:25 pm