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Bernanke Expects Inflation to Remain Low - Buy and Hold PlusIn a letter to a Senator, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that he expects "slack resources, together with the stability of inflation expectations, to contribute to the maintenance of low inflation in the period ahead." This came on the same day that the government said the produ...
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Paul Volcker: America Must 'Reassert Stability and Leadership'Interview with US Economic Recovery Advisory Board Chair Paul Volcker America Must 'Reassert Stability and Leadership' Paul Volcker, 82, is one of US President Barack Obama's leading economic advisors. SPIEGEL spoke with him about the economic challeges facing the US, whether new taxes are ...
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Wall Street Journal Supports Break-Up Of Big BanksThe editorial was mostly an assault on Democratic proposals described as offering "unlimited taxpayer funds" to bail out "just about anyone... engaging in finance of one kind or another" in a way that "would entrench moral hazard (and cheaper funding costs for the likes of Goldman Sachs) even ...
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Editorials | Keep consumers safe by bringing back Glass-Steagall Act | Seattle Times NewspaperA year ago the U.S. Treasury was pumping billions of borrowed dollars into banks judged to be "too big to fail." This cannot be allowed to happen again. This page has already suggested one solution. It is a radical one: Make the big banks small enough to fail. Break them up. Nearly a century ...
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Ex-Fed chief Paul Volcker's 'telling' words on derivatives industry - TelegraphEx-Fed chief Paul Volcker's 'telling' words on derivatives industry
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Stocks Climb on Good Jobs News - Buy and Hold PlusAfter getting much better than expected news on the labor market , stocks climbed. However, the initial pop, which saw major indices climb by more than one percent, stocks gave back much of their gains. The S&P 500 swung between gains and losses 20 times per day according to data compiled ...
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Alltop - Top Economics NewsFed Chairman Bernanke. (Getty Images) Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has testified dozens of times before Congress in the past four years. But today he may face his longest series of repeated attacks from members of the Senate Banking Committee in his confirmation hearing for another ...
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Fed Needs To 'Start Giving A Red Hot Damn About The American Public,' Says Sen. WhitehouseTwo days before Ben Bernanke's confirmation hearing, most Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee are withholding judgment, waiting to hear directly from the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Given the depth of the ongoing economic crisis, the hearing promises to be a lively one, as senators ...
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Equity swap allows AIG to cut $25 billion in Fed debt - Yahoo! NewsBailed-out US insurance giant AIG said Tuesday it had agreed to provide an equity stake in two subsidiaries to the Federal Reserve in a move to cut its debt to the central bank by 25 billion dollars. American International Group said it had transferred ownership to the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
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4 Economic Moves the Government Got Right - Yahoo! NewsBack in early May, the stock market looked as though it had rebounded from the depressing lows it had reached in March, but stocks still seesawed as investors vacillated between hope that the worst was behind and fear that nasty surprises still lay ahead. Then on May 7, the Federal Reserve ...
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