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- Why Credit Card Regulation Is Broken
- Until recently, regulators routinely looked the other way as credit card issuers ensnared unwitting consumers with huge finance charges and penalties. So how did credit card regulation become so broken? Here's a brief history of the slippery practices of the industry. How...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Reforming the Credit Card Industry
- Consumers should be able to use plastic without getting skewered by unfair bank practices. Although the Federal Reserve passed new regulations to reform the industry, many consumer groups argue the Fed failed to complete the job. Here's a list of additional reforms needed to make credit cards fairer for consumers....
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Ben Bernanke: What Caused the Financial Crisis?
- In a rare interview with a sitting Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke tells 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley what went wrong with America's financial system and how it caused the current economic crisis.
- Videos 2009-06-07
- Ben Bernanke: When Will the Recession End?
- In Part 2 of a rare public interview, Ben Bernanke tells 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley what the Fed is doing to help fix the current economic crisis and when he expects the crippling recession to end.
- Videos 2009-06-07
- Executive Compensation: Why the Fed Should Steer Clear of Banker Pay
- The Fed is proposing to get involved in overseeing pay at the nation's banks in order to reduce risk in the financial system. But executive pay isn't really the right issue to focus on. Feinberg’s proposals to shift a portion of executive salaries into stock options that would...
- Articles 2009-10-06
- Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged
- The central bank says the economy is growing without inflation. Plus: The Senate is close to extending unemployment benefits.
- Videos 2009-11-04
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- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- The Federal Reserve Must Die, Part 3
- James Quinn submits: << Part 2 Inflation, Instability, Crisis, & Collapse Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board,...
- External links 2009-08-24
- Federal Reserve Banks earn income, return vast majority to U.S. Treasury.
- Many people know that Federal Reserve Banks are not part of the U.S. government, but what most don't realize is that Reserve Banks earn income that is returned to the U.S. Treasury each year. In fact, since the Federal Reserve System began operations Many people know...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- On the pervasive effects of Federal Reserve settlement regulations
- The purpose of this paper is to determine whether Federal Reserve settlement effects have also appeared in the overnight London interbank offer rate LIBOR since the Federal Reserve removed the reserve requirements on Eurocurrency liabilities.1 We begin The purpose of this paper is to determine whether Federal Reserve settlement effects...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- OKC businessman reappointed chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of K.C.
- The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the appointment of the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for 2006. Robert A. Funk, founder and CEO of Express Personnel Services, was reappointed to the position of chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. ...
- Research articles 2005-11-28
- Directors of Federal Reserve Banks and Branches - Federal Reserve System information
- Regional decentralization and a combination of governmental and private characteristics are important hallmarks of the uniqueness of the Federal Reserve System. Under the Federal Reserve Act, decentralization was achieved by division of the country into twelve regions called Federal Reserve Districts and the establishment in each District of a separately...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Federal Reserve: Readying a Stealth Tightening of Monetary Policy?
- The Federal Reserve impacts the economy by raising and lowering the Federal Funds Rate. With the Fed Funds rate currently at a range of 0-.25%, the Federal Reserve has no more ammunition to positively impact the economy, right? No! Readers of Sense on Cents are fully aware of the other...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Combined financial statements of the Federal Reserve Banks
- The financial statements of the Federal Reserve Banks were audited by Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P., independent public accountants, for the years ended December 31, 1997 and 1996.Coopers & Lybrand REPORT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTSTo the Board of Governors of The Federal Reserve System and the Board of...
- Research articles 1998-07-01
- Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is Open and Operating
- Business Editors CLEVELAND--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 11, 2001 The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is open and operating, as are all of the other Reserve Banks and the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. There has been no interruption of services to Fed customers. The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland...
- Research articles 2001-09-11
- Maps of the Federal Reserve System
- LEGEND Both pages * Federal Reserve Bank city ** Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C. Facing page *** Federal Reserve Branch city **** Branch boundary NOTE The Federal Reserve officially identifies Districts by number and Reserve Bank city...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Federal Reserve operating targets, past and present - A Review of Federal Reserve Policy
- The Federal Reserve's choice of operating target has important consequences for its ability to control inflation and to counter episodes of financial instability. Historically, its practice of stabilizing the federal funds rate produced procyclical growth in money and inflation. After a relatively brief shift to a reserve target in 1979-82,...
- Research articles 1991-07-01
- The evolution of the Federal Reserve's Monetary aggregates: a timeline. (Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)(Money Stock Measurement: History, Theory and Implications)
- This timeline follows the history of the monetary aggregates published by the staff of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. The chronology is based on the Board's J.3 and H.6 statistical releases as well as material from the Federal Reserve Bull This timeline follows the history...
- Research articles 1994-03-01
- Federal Reserve's imputed cost of equity capital: A survey, The
- The U.S. Federal Reserve System provides services to depository financial institutions through the twelve Federal Reserve Banks. U.S. federal legislation, contained in the Monetary Control Act of 1980, requires the Federal Reserve Banks to price their services at a level that fully recovers their costs. The act specifically requires imputation...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Discount window borrowing and Federal Reserve operating regimes
- I. INTRODUCTIONThe borrowing behavior of banks at the Federal Reserve's discount window is a component of most models of the monetary sector, including the model used by the Federal Reserve.(1) As several researchers have noted,(2) however, the policy importance of accurate predictions of borrowing behavior depends on the Federal Reserve's...
- Research articles 1993-10-01
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