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Four reasons Janet Yellen should stay onThe Fed needs governors with Yellen’s balanced perspective on the central bank's policies.- US Fed's unspoken mandate: And the common man is the victim of thisFed's preference for normality is baked into most empirical models of US monetary policy.
- Can Trump clip the Fed's independence?The election of Trump seems like a good time to remind ourselves that, historically , the executive has presented the greatest threat to th...
- View: Time to bring US Federal Reserve’s dead meetings to lifePresumably, showing a willingness to act without a press conference would help convince markets and the public that all meetings are live, ...
- Expert take: How the Fed turns good news into badWith better extraction technologies, oil and gas prices would tend to be lower. And robotics enhancements would weigh on both wages and pri...
- The US Federal Reserve's mission: A rocket launch from JupiterTrue, the Fed lifted off from its self-imposed quarter-percentage-point lower bound last December, but that's nothing more than igniting th...
- Yes, the Fed is about to make a mistake: Narayana KocherlakotaMore than seven years after the recovery began in mid-2009, inflation remains below the central bank's 2-percent target, indicating that th...
- Why the rise of the one per cent makes Janet Yellen’s job harderAs the top one per cent accounts for an increasing share of the nation’s income, it may be reducing consumption, hurting growth and boostin...
- Economists show higher interest rates lead to higher consumptionThe equation says that when interest rates are high, people save more and consume less -- this is the way they smooth their consumption, as...
- Fed and interest rate: Janet Yellen has some explaining to doFed will have to engage in some collective soul-searching, and figure out one or two factors that have been most critical in shaping their ...
- Everything is a buy as central banks keep greasing marketsThe Fed risks falling into the same trap by insisting that negative rates are not under consideration, even though the rate it pays on bank...
- The real reason to worry about change in ChinaUS and Chinese policy makers must recognise the global importance of their currency union and pursue its inevitable dissolution in a much m...
- Markets can rejoice from this 'most dovish' comment by a Fed presidentThe main thrust of Kocherlakota's argument on why the Fed ought to be extraordinarily patient in raising rates is inflation and the employm...
- Federal Reserve is failing to deliver on 2% inflation vow: Narayana KocherlakotaFed should be careful about reducing its monetary "footprint," especially with inflation running so far below the Fed's 2% goal, a top offi...
- Federal Reserve may not redraw markers for rate increaseThe Fed, struggling to boost the US recovery from the Great Recession, remains intent on assuring investors that easy monetary policy.
- Bernanke wields tools to cut unemployment rateCentral bankers linked their interestrate outlook to economic thresholds, saying rates will stay low as long as unemployment remains above ...
- US Fed trio spars on low-rate policy ahead of December meetingFed has kept short-term rates at 0% since Dec 2008 and has bought $2.5 t in bonds to boost recovery
- Nitish Kumar in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers listKumar’s remarkable turnaround of Bihar is feted by the magazine, which describes the state as a “wasteland where 100 million people are squ...
- Bernanke hits back at critics of bond-buying planFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has sought to defuse criticism of the Fed's $600 billion bond-purchase plan by arguing that it's need...
- The anti-history boysI would tell you this is the latest episode in a long history of similar bubbles, crashes, crises and recessions.
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