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  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 7 years ago
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    Fed Keeping Near-zero Interest Rates, But Be Prepared For Shift Later in the Year

    The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that, while "the economy is expanding at a moderate rate," it is maintaining the near-zero target interest rates. At least for the time being. The door appears to be open for a change later in the year...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 7 years ago
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    NY Fed President: "Improving culture in the financial services industry is an imperative"

    The boys (and girls) of Wall Street got a lecture yesterday and told to clean up their act. Speaking at a workshop on "Reforming Culture and Behavior in the Financial Services Industry," New York Fed president William Dudley connected the dots...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 7 years ago
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    Economic Letter: 'Long Road to Normal for Bank Business Lending'

    After a slow five years that we often described as a credit crunch period, bank lending to businesses now seems quite strong. C&I lending--that is, commercial and industrial lending (total dollars), is now higher than ever. The Federal Reserve's...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 7 years ago
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    Federal Reserve: 'Most Districts Optimistic About the Outlook for Growth'

    The Federal Reserve 's Beige Book for July is out, and it provides a bit of perspective, and an understanding of why the Fed is looking to ease out of quantitative easing. While the recovery has been slow, it does remain steady, and the Fed is seeing...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 7 years ago
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    Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Defends Fed's Independence and Accomodative Monetary Policy

    In a speech to the Utah and Montana Bankers Association yesterday, San Francisco Fed president John C. Williams addresses some of the concerns he's been hearing about the Federal Reserve's monetary policy moves. One of the concerns he hears most...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 7 years ago
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    Fed Continues to Taper

    The Federal Reserve announced this week that it will continue to taper. That is, it will continue to pull back from its quantitative easing monetary policy. One trigger is, as it has been the last year or so, improved jobs data. Here is a key paragraph...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 12 years ago
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    The Fed and the (Near?) Future of Interest Rates

    Yesterday the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors decided in their last policy meeting of the year to keep the target range for federal funds--aka, the benchmark interest rate--between 0 and 1/4 percent. Their reasoning, at least publicly, appears...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 12 years ago
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    WSJ August Forecast: Most Economists Surveyed Say the Recession Has Ended

    The Wall Street Journal 's August forecasting survey shows most of the participating economists feel the economy stabilizing: After months of uncertainty, economists are finally seeing a break in the clouds. Forecasts were revised upward for every...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 13 years ago
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    John Taylor: 'How Government Created the Financial Crisis'

    In an op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal , John Taylor, professor of economics at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, says his research shows that the federal government should be getting the lion's share of the blame for...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 8 years ago
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    Paul Volcker on the Fed's Independence and Restoring Trust in the Financial World

    Paul Volcker believes the Fed is at a "crossroads," just as it was when he first worked there, 64 years ago. Writing in the August 13 issue of The New York Review of Books , the former Fed Chair shares a bit of historical analysis as he looks...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 9 years ago
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    Ben Bernanke on Monetary Policy and the Gold Standard

    In a speech at the London School of Economics yesterday, Fed Chair Ben Bernanke discussed lessons from the financial crisis. Bernanke said the recent crisis was a "classic financial panic," and he gave a brief history lesson on exchange rates...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 10 years ago
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    Fed Investments Net Nearly $77 Billion in 2011

    The Federal Reserve had another good investment year, making $76.9 billion in profits off of treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities and the like. But the Wall Street Journal 's Jon Hilsenrath says not to get too excited. While the Fed was able...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 9 years ago
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    Hank Greenberg on "The AIG Story"

    It is time for you to play juror. Maurice "Hank" Greenberg is on the stand and Charlie Rose is playing questioner (we hesitate to call him prosecutor given his approach to the questioning). Greenberg, you may remember, was CEO of AIG for...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 12 years ago
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    Mankiw: Massive Monetary Base and Inflation Fears

    Greg Mankiw challenges the notion put forward in this Wall Street Journal article that a rapidly expanding--or "exploding"--monetary base is a sign that inflation is around the corner. While this graph seems to spell out inflation: Mankiw...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 11 years ago
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    The Fed's Options

    The Federal Open Market Committee is set to meet tomorrow to discuss the state of the US economy and ways to push recovery. The Financial Times is now reporting that the Fed will "downgrade its assessment" of the economy . So that opens up questions...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 12 years ago
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    GEC Timelines from the NY Fed

    With Ben Bernanke 's semi-annual testimony on Capitol Hill last week, and his town meeting in Kansas City yesterday (segments of the event will be aired this week, starting tonight, on Newshour with Jim Lehrer ), the Fed Reserve chair is getting a...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 11 years ago
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    Short History of Quantitative Easing in the 1930s

    Quantitative easing became a hot topic last year, as the Federal Reserve dropped the target for federal funds rate to near zero. But Richard Anderson of the St. Louis Fed reminds us that this was the second time in US history that the "monetary authorities"...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 8 years ago
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    NY Fed President on Effective Monetary Policy

    New York Fed President William Dudley cautions against being too rule focused--at least when it comes to responding to financial crises. Speaking at the Bank for International Settlements 2013 Annual General Meeting in Basel, Switzerland, Dudley noted...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 12 years ago
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    Alan Blinder: 'Why Inflation Isn't the Danger'

    There's quite a bit of inlfation chatter going around these last few days. Some are concerned that the behavior of central banks around the world in applying varying degrees of quantitative easing policies will bring about inflation . Domestically...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 12 years ago
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    St. Louis Fed's Kliesen on the Threat of Inflation

    Is the threat of inflation in the eye of the beholder? The St. Louis Fed 's Kevin Kliesen has a new analysis of the potential threat of Inflation. Kliesen suggests that it is important at this stage--the post recession period--to determine how big...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 10 years ago
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    Roubini Calls for Swift Action to Stop Depression

    In an op-ed for the Financial Times , Nouriel Roubini calls S&P's decision to downgrade the US credit rating "misguided," and he worries that it is making an already dangerous economic situation worse. Between the US economy's inability...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 8 years ago
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    James Hamilton Rejects the 'Flow View' on QE3

    At Econbrowser , James Hamilton takes issue with those who think the pending/likely/coming-to-a-central-bank-near-you tapering of the Fed's large scale asset purchases will have a large effect on the markets. Hamilton sees any Fed action on QE3 as...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 9 years ago
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    Lagarde Implores Policymakers to Follow Central Bankers' Lead and Push Recovery

    IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde was at the Peterson Institute in Washington yesterday, where she urged policymakers to put their feet on the gas pedal. Lagarde argued that recent monetary policy moves have presented an opportunity to build momentum...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 13 years ago
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    Bank of England Drops Interest Rates, Quantitative Easing Anyone?

    The Bank of England has cut interest rates to a record low. The International Herald Tribune : Britain's central bank reduced the rate to 1.5 percent, the lowest level since the creation of the central bank in 1694, and economists expect Britain...
  • Graham Griffith
    Graham Griffith
    • over 11 years ago
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    SF Fed President: Inflation Will Peak in Middle of 2011

    Commodity prices have been rising, and this has raised some concern about rising inflation across the board. Speaking last week in Los Angeles, John C. Williams , CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco , gave his prognosis on inflation. In short...
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