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- Exxon: Benefitting from Your Pain
- With our Green dreams of renewable energy still in the future, the biggest oil company in America is growing steadily. Ease your agony by cashing in on the profits from our oil-sucking ways.
- Videos 2008-04-04
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- The Fed Fears Deflation More Than Inflation
- In his interesting post, Scott Sumner argues that deflation is more likely than inflation, and that if it occurred, it would damage the economy by effectively raising labor costs to firms, forcing them to lay off more people and worsening our unemployment problems. In contrast, I view deflation as less...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- The Fed's Monetary Policy Has Veered Off Course
- Although the risk of deflation has receded in recent months, Fed policy is still too contractionary for the needs of the economy, as the money supply has not kept up with increases in money demand. Two percent inflation is the goal Both Lee Ohanian...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Ron Paul Wants to Shine More Light on the Fed
- A rabble-rousing pol from East Texas, accusing the Federal Reserve of fealty to Wall Street, seeks to bring the ostensibly autonomous agency under political control once and for all. Come on down, Ron Paul! Actually, try Wright Patman, circa 1963. The longtime congressman for decades attacked the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- 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
- How low will the Fed go?
- How low will the Fed go? 2% fed'l funds rate looks like a floor. Any lower might provoke consumer jitters rather than help to reduce them. Expect another half-point cut at Fed's meeting on Oct. 2, two more slices of a quarter-point in Nov. and Dec....
- Research articles 2001-09-28
- What's Wrong With the Dodd Proposal to Restructure the Fed
- A proposal from Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd changes the selection process for key positions within the Federal Reserve system. Unfortunately, this proposal makes the selection process worse, not better. If this proposal is passed into law, it would further concentrate power within the Federal...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Analysis: The Fed's Rate Decision and Exit Strategy
- Editor's Note: Economist Mark Thoma is guest-blogging for The Macro View this week. After its rate setting meeting today, the Fed announced that it "will maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent," and that it "continues to anticipate that economic...
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- The Fed's Comments Last Week, and the Market's Reaction Since
- The Bernanke era of the Federal Reserve will be remembered by economists and investors for many reasons, but the most flattering is that the Bernanke regime avoids mumbo-jumbo in explaining what it's up to. In its statement last week on the recent Federal Open Market Committee FOMC meeting, the Fed...
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- U.S. Mortgage Rates Slip: Is the Fed's Course Affirmed?
- Marc Chandler submits: Freddie Mac FRE reports that mortgage rates fell in the US in the past week. The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell 10 bp to 5.32%. Fed officials may find some comfort in this development, but it is unlikely to silence its critics. In some ways...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Why The Fed Should Oversee the Entire Financial System
- Editor's Note: Economist Mark Thoma is guest-blogging for the Macro View this week. Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, head of the Senate Banking Committee, is now preparing legislation to reform the financial system by creating a single regulator to oversee the financial system. Since this legislation...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- The Fed Bailout: Beware the Moral Hazard
- The Federal Reserve's decision to pump $200 billion into the hands of American banks deserves a cautionary yellow-flag. The Fed is clearly putting taxpayer dollars at risk by allowing the banks to trade their funny money mortgage-related instruments for Treasury bonds and bills. The banks don't know...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Bernanke Well Deserved Reappointment to the Fed
- It was really dismaying to read the stream of vitriol that followed President Obama's decision to reappoint Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve. I think history will show that Bernanke was a true hero whose out-of-the-box thinking saved the global economy from collapse. The criticism...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Fed Rates Keep Falling on My Head: What the Fed Rate Cuts Means for Your Savings and Mortgage from Informa Research Services
- CALABASAS, Calif. -- Today, the Fed slashed the Fed funds rate by 50 basis points (http://learn.equifax.com/banking-loans/loan-rates). Like most things, dropping rates are a game of give and take; the lowering of Fed rates can be beneficial for some parts of your financial life and detrimental for others. So how exactly...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- The Fed: Friend or foe?
- Stagflation, global interest rates and the U.S. dollar could be as important as what the Fed does with its target for short-term rates. What will influence the Fed? Deans: If we go into recession, the Fed will ease. If the economy slows down to 2% growth, the Fed sits on...
- Research articles 2006-12-18
- Why Not Have the Fed Buy Up Undervalued Assets?
- Brad DeLong submits: Paul Krugman thinks about monetary policy: Fiscal aspects of quantitative easing: The big policy news this week has been the Fed’s decision to buy $1 trillion of long-term bonds, going beyond the normal policy of buying only short-term debt. Good move — but...
- External links 2009-03-21
- The Fed's Exit Strategy: Local Lanes or Express?
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is delivering his semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins testimony about the economy before the House Financial Services Committee today and he will repeat the performance before the Senate Banking Committee tomorrow. Investors and economists alike would like some indication that the emergency measures that the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- The Fed's 'Suez Crisis'
- Eddy Elfenbein submits: Something that struck me about Lehman’s LEH demise is how little power the Federal Reserve really has. Don’t get me wrong, the Fed is darn powerful, but it’s not all-knowing and all-seeing, despite what some folks think. The Fed is powerful because people think it’s powerful....
- External links 2008-09-15
- Commercial Real Estate: Is the Fed About to Do Something Right?
- Economic Disconnect submits: I admit to be as negative on the FED/Treasury/FDIC as is possible, but I think they deserve it. Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, and it appears we have the makings of a good policy move in the works! Check it out:...
- External links 2009-10-30
- The Fed's Take On Interest Rates, Inflation
- The Fed doesn't directly control or set interest rates on mortgages, auto loans, credit-cards or other types of consumer debt. However, the Fed's actions and target interest rates do have a big effect on the general level and direction of interest rates on mortgages and other consumer financial products. For...
- White papers 2009-07-30
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