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Sen. Jeff Merkley: This Is Our Best Chance to Fix Wall Street

2012-05-18T14:27:40Z

Let's be clear: There's nothing wrong with high-risk trading, but if the bets go bad, only the people who made the bets should have to pay. This sort of gambling should happen in hedge funds, not in the federally-insured banks that families and small businesses depend on.

Read more: JP Morgan, Wall Street Reform, Federal Reserve, Jamie Dimon, Ben Bernanke, Volcker Rule, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

Jane White: What Makes You Madder: JPMorgan's Recklessness or the Fed's Cluelessness?

2012-05-16T10:39:36Z

We not only need to rein the banks in but we've got to delegate the responsibility for measuring household wealth -- and hopefully come up with ways to boost it -- to an agency that's more in touch with "the 99%."

Read more: JP Morgan Chase, Federal Reserve, Americans for Financial Reform, Ben Bernanke, New Democrat Coalition, Dodd-Frank, Volcker Rule, Derivatives, Wall Street, Jpmorgan, Banking, JPMorgan Chase, Banks, Bankers, JP Morgan, Business News

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Talking With Krugman: He's Anti-Austerity, Pro-Peter Gabriel, and "Not That Cosmic"

2012-05-15T12:12:53Z

Paul Krugman's book is called End This Depression Now! (exclamation point included). If that sounds like a self-help book -- the sequel to Listening to Prozac, maybe, or something by Dr. Wayne Dyer -- that's not altogether inappropriate in this age of collective near-despair.

Read more: Groupthink, Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, Unemployment, Economics, Stimulus, Austerity Economics, End This Depression Now, Politics News

Jane White: This Time It's Different -- Old Remedies Won't Fix Our Flat-World Economy

2012-05-06T20:11:35Z

President Obama wants to remove tax incentives for companies who takes jobs abroad and reward those who bring them back home. But will a different tax tactic do the trick?

Read more: Outsourcing, Tax Cuts, Mitt Romney, Ben Bernanke, China, Recession, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Overseas-Jobs, Politics News

David Einhorn: The Fed's Jelly Donut Policy

2012-05-03T00:00:00Z

I believe that stocks are depressed because there is a pervasive feeling that something awful is going to happen. What is this enormous tail-risk? It's the intersection of reckless fiscal policy with overindulgent "Jelly Donut" monetary policy.

Read more: Interest Rates, qe3, Investing, Markets, Qe2, Hedge Funds, Economy, Quantitative Easing, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Quantitative Easing 3, Bond Market, Monetary Policy, Business News

Robert Teitelman: What Should the Central Banks Do?

2012-05-01T13:38:33Z

In arguing the case for the primacy of economic action, Krugman blithely ignores the difficult situation of central banking in the modern world.

Read more: Central Banks, François Hollande, Financial TImes, Federal Reserve, Rick Perry, Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, European Central Bank, Fdr, Nicolas Sarkozy, Business News

Krugman: Bernanke Has 'Been Assimilated By The Borg'

2012-04-29T10:05:29Z

Paul Krugman doubled down on criticism of Ben Bernanke on Sunday, telling ABC's "This Week" that the Fed Chairman has "been assimilated by the Borg."
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Bernanke: Fed Can't Handle Taxmageddon

2012-04-25T15:59:46Z

Ben Bernanke warned the Federal Reserve would be powerless to keep the economy from disaster if Congress fails to keep the country from falling off wh...

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Krugman: Chairman Bernanke Should Listen To Professor Bernanke

2012-04-24T11:47:35Z

When the financial crisis struck in 2008, many economists took comfort in at least one aspect of the situation: the best possible person, Ben Bernanke...

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Robert Kuttner: How Europe Could Sink Obama

2012-04-22T20:59:03Z

Should Socialist Francois Hollande be elected president of France in the runoff election on May 6, that will help create an antidote to the austerity politics that are dominating Europe.

Read more: Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Unemployment, Ecb, Francois Hollande, France Elections, Nicolas Sarkozy, Business News

Robert Auerbach: A Blatant Cover-up of Corrupt Practices at the Federal Reserve by Its "Independent" Inspector General

2012-04-18T15:35:36Z

Chairman Burns' stonewalling to keep the Fed from being caught in the Watergate scandal was extreme undue political interference. Inspector General Mark Bialek's report bypasses this information that was made available to him.

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Jeffrey A. Miron: The Fed Versus the Gold Standard

2012-04-18T12:18:33Z

Recent vilification of the Fed and claims that a gold standard can solve U.S. economic problems are without empirical foundation.

Read more: Gold Standard, Federal Reserve, Ron Paul, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Janis Bowdler: Homeowners Can't Afford Another Missed Opportunity

2012-04-17T06:36:08Z

With a little creativity and cooperation, REOs can become a driving force in neighborhood stabilization. Homeowners cannot afford for banks and regulators to miss another opportunity like this.

Read more: Foreclosure Crisis, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Nclr, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Latino, Federal Reserve, National Council of La Raza, Ben Bernanke, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Bank-Owned-Homes, Reos, Latino Prosperity, Video, Latino Voices News

Fed Officials Leave For Wall Street With Privileged Info

2012-04-16T16:04:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve may be making an effort to open up some of its famously opaque decision making, but the newfound interest in transpa...

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Robert Kuttner: You've Come a Long Way, Ben

2012-04-15T21:53:27Z

Does Ben Bernanke deserve the accolade bestowed in the April Atlantic magazine cover profile, "The Hero?" Not entirely. But if you look at Bernanke over the past ten years, what you see more than anything else is a learning curve on matters of regulation.

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Bernanke: Fed Responded To Crisis With 'Best Of Bad Options'

2012-04-13T13:56:48Z

WASHINGTON — Chairman Ben Bernanke said Friday that the Federal Reserve was left with few good options when it stepped in to shore up the larges...

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Robert Lenzner: You Can't Trust the Wise Men of Finance

2012-04-09T10:35:08Z

It's said that no Wall Street leader, no economist, no legislative committee, no regulator, could predict the perfect storm of all investment assets collapsing at the same time in 2008. I beg to differ.

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Iran Agrees To Talk, So Oil Prices Fall

2012-04-09T07:26:00Z

* Iran nuclear talks to be held in Istanbul * U.S., allies want end to high-level enrichment * Disappointing U.S. jobs d...

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On 'Too Big To Fail,' Dodd-Frank Is Too Small To Work

2012-04-06T12:30:40Z

As policymakers continue to spar over how much the nation's big banks should be reined in, many people have lost faith in the idea that it will ever h...

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Turning Foreclosures Into Rentals, The Federal Reserve Way

2012-04-06T08:07:57Z

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve has issued policy guidelines for banks turning foreclosed homes they own into rentals, a trend that could help boost...

Read more: Lending Practices, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage Lenders, Central Bank, Home Prices, Banks, Federal Reserve, Foreclosure, Ben Bernanke, Foreclosed Homes, Rents, Business News

Paul Krugman On The Federal Reserve: 'Not Enough Inflation'

2012-04-06T08:24:03Z

A few days ago, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, spoke out in defense of his successor. Attacks on Ben Bernanke by Republic...

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Waaahhh, Say Markets

2012-04-03T15:25:59Z

Financial markets are throwing a little tantrum today.

What's got them all worked up? The minutes of the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting made...

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Fed Cleared Of Wild Allegations Related To Saddam, Watergate

2012-04-03T15:22:38Z

By Dave Clarke and Margaret Chadbourn

The Federal Reserve did not help the Watergate burglars get cash, stonewall congressional inquiries in th...

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The Dramatic Consequences Of Long-Term Unemployment

2012-04-03T11:15:37Z

The terrifying financial insecurity of unemployment may not even be the worst part of losing your job.

That's because the chance that a person will...

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Greenspan: GOP Attacks On Fed Are 'Wholly Inappropriate And Destructive'

2012-04-02T11:35:56Z

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan says enough with all the attacking of Ben Bernanke.

"Anyone has the right to criticize Federal Rese...

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