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America's super-easy monetary policy has drawn a blast of criticism lately from the high and mighty of Asian finance...Bernanke stand accused of blithely ignoring the risk of new asset bubbles and more economic mayhem.
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Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas) took his name off the co-sponsors list for the bank overdraft bill backed by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. The legislation is seen as a key...
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T hursday's stock market decline was just what Ben Bernanke needed. If people keep bidding up stocks with the cheap money he's handing out, he'll go down in history as the dumbest central banker ever, the one who blew a new investment bubble while he...
Tags: Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, raising rates, stock market, Russia, Moscow, Federal Reserve System, Late-2000s recession, Financial crisis of 2007¬タモ2009, Finance, Ben Bernanke, Short, Business Finance
The Federal Reserve's strategy to fend off a barrage of attacks from Congress, largely centered on low-key diplomacy by Chairman Ben Bernanke, isn't succeeding. Many Democrats and Republicans praise Mr. Bernanke for candor and accessibility. But some...
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One of the few welcome consequences of the global recession has been a modest upsurge in economic literacy, or at least interest. That's not to be exaggerated; most people still don't know their asset-backed securities from the elbows, but at least we're...
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T his is the latest public advice to investors from Bill Gross: The world has changed, expect significantly lower returns and put some money into utility stocks. As co-founder and co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., Mr. Goss...
Tags: U.S. Fed, Mr. Gross, China, Shanghai, Ben Bernanke, Nouriel Roubini, Gross domestic product, Business Finance
First-time claims for U.S. unemployment insurance benefits were unchanged in the week ending Nov. 14, the U.S...Claims held even at 505,000 after three consecutive weeks of declines...The week prior to that saw a drop of 1,000 first time claims.
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Federal Reserve officials on Thursday downplayed the consequences of the falling U.S. dollar, underscoring that deflation is still a threat, especially with commercial real estate prices falling. Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said in an interview...
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Crude oil futures rose Wednesday, moving closer to the $80 mark after data from the American Petroleum Institute showed a larger-than-expected drawdown in US crude oil inventories. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude...
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After holding four hearings and sifting through thousands of documents, Democrats and Republicans in Congress still can't agree on whether Bank of America was perpetrator or victim in the saga behind its troubled Merrill Lynch deal. But one key Democrat...
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