Tag: Monetary Policy

Newly redesigned $100 notes lay in stacks at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on May 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty images)

Federal Reserve sends record $98.7 billion to Treasury

Joseph Lawler · January 9, 2015 5:47 pm

The Federal Reserve could move to raise interest rates as early as the first half of 2015 thanks to the strength of the economy, according to one central banker. (iStock Photo)

Fed official: Interest rate hikes could come in first half of 2015

Joseph Lawler · January 2, 2015 6:41 pm

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Fed’s inflation hawks fly the coop

Joseph Lawler · January 1, 2015 10:00 am

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota, one of three dissenting votes from the Fed's monetary policy announcement Wednesday, issued a statement Friday in which he warned that the Fed's "failure to respond to weak inflation runs the risk of creating a harmful downward slide in inflation and longer-term inflation expectations of the kind that we have seen in Japan and Europe."(AP Photo/John Locher)

Fed official: Fed is risking Japan-style deflation

Joseph Lawler · December 19, 2014 4:56 pm

Fed moves closer to interest rate hikes

Joseph Lawler · December 17, 2014 7:25 pm

Fed expected to move closer to raising interest rates

Joseph Lawler · December 16, 2014 10:00 am

People walk into a meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, October 24, 2013 in Washington DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty images)

Federal Reserve’s top advocate for loose money to step down

Joseph Lawler · December 12, 2014 5:09 pm

Loretta Mester, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a voting member of the Fed's monetary policy committee, said the central bank should remove the language from its policy announcements that it will keep interest rates near zero for a "considerable time."Â (AP/Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Fed official recommends raising rates earlier

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2014 9:29 pm

The European Central Bank will consider Federal Reserve-style quantitative easing "early next year," ECB president Mario Draghi hinted Thursday. (AP Photo)

Europe to consider US-style quantitative easing ‘early next year’

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2014 2:36 pm

If inflation continues to fall, the Federal Reserve would have to respond by guaranteeing lower interest rates for longer, Federal Reserve vice chairman Stanley Fischer said Tuesday. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Fed’s Stanley Fischer: Falling inflation would force Fed to keep rates low

Joseph Lawler · December 2, 2014 3:11 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