Tag: bernanke
|
January 07, 2010 04:20 PM EST --
The minutes of December's mid-month meeting of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee were released yesterday and the conclusions are not encouraging for those on Main Street. Unemployment is now expected . . .
more
|
|
December 07, 2009 04:43 PM EST --
In a speech to the Economic Club of Washington on Monday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that it is too early to judge how long economic recovery will take from the current recession and that the Fed . . .
more
|
|
November 14, 2008 03:04 PM EST --
When a big company that gets into trouble is more valuable living than dead, there used to be a well-established legal process for reorganizing it - called chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. Under it, . . .
more
|
|
March 15, 2009 09:34 PM EDT --
Did you see Scott Pelley's interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke? In the interview, Bernanke said the recession could end this year.
It was a fascinating interview and gave . . .
more
|
|
July 22, 2009 12:15 AM EDT --
Bernanke: "I Don't Know."
By Rep Alan Grayson
This is Congressman Alan Grayson questioning Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on $550B of loans to foreigners (or 'central liquidity . . .
more
|
|
December 17, 2009 01:26 PM EST --
Many wonder if the Senate Banking Committee made the right decision this morning when, by a vote of 16 to 7, it sent the nomination of Ben Bernanke on to the Senate floor, where it is expected to be taken . . .
more
|
|
December 31, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has a New Year's gift for John Q. Public, and it's a slap in the face.
On Monday, Bernanke proposed that banks in the United States be allowed to invest in the equivalent of . . .
more
|
|
July 23, 2009 08:28 PM EDT --
The US Federal Reserve chairman has said the country's economy is showing sign of improvement - but steps must be taken to prevent job losses from undermining a recovery.
"Better conditions . . .
more
|
|
June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board declined to raise interest rates and, surprisingly, this may have been a factor in the Dow's 358 point drop today. It's surprising because generally . . .
more
|
|
September 26, 2008 05:45 AM EDT --
Once again there is no agreement on the proposed bailout plan. The democrats appear solidly behind the Bush backed plan, while the House Republicans are solidly against it. Could it be politics . . .
more
|
|
October 30, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
by Steven R. Weisman The great flummoxing recession of '08.
As investors all around the world ran scared this past month, their panic was about the only thing easy to understand. The global . . .
more
|
|
December 14, 2008 04:07 PM EST --
By Antal E Fekete -- A landmark in the saga of the collapsing international monetary system was signaled on December 2, when gold went to backwardation for the first time in history.
Backwardation . . .
more
|
|
November 07, 2009 06:21 AM EST --
An economy that isn't creating employment opportunities simply isn't doing its job.
It's time to stop glorifying our economic doldrums with this "jobless recovery" nonsense.
Yes, the economy . . .
more
|
|
November 08, 2009 09:21 PM EST --
By Mike Whitney
This is bad. Double-digit unemployment. In October, unemployment soared to 10.2%. 16 million people are out of work. The average work week is down to 33 hours. Payrolls have contracted . . .
more
|
|
November 23, 2009 09:03 PM EST --
By Matthias Chang
Many of my friends who have been receiving my e-mail alerts over the last two years have lamented that in recent weeks I have not commented on the state of the global economy. I . . .
more
|
|
December 05, 2009 03:08 PM EST --
It's time - near the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve act of 1913 - to seriously question what this institution is doing for us. We can re-nationalize the power to create money and make it a sovereign . . .
more
|
|
December 09, 2009 06:37 AM EST --
By Robert Scheer
Barack Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those “we the people” e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing . . .
more
|
|
September 24, 2008 12:14 PM EDT --
Bush, Bernanke, Paulson
It's tempting to watch today's Senate Banking Committee hearings, with Democrats and Republicans alike tearing into Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and Treasury . . .
more
|
|
October 20, 2008 10:50 PM EDT --
On Monday, Fed Chairman Bernanke told House lawmakers that "consideration of a fiscal package by the Congress at this juncture seems appropriate" given the risk of a "protracted . . .
more
|
|
March 16, 2009 03:30 PM EDT --
President Barack Obama declared Monday that insurance giant American International Group is in financial straits because of "recklessness and greed" and said he intends to stop it from paying . . .
more
|
|
|
|
