Fed Transparency Issues

Fed Transparency Should Precede Bernanke Confirmation

Dean Baker | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

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At the moment, Congress lacks the independent and objective analysis needed to fully assess Bernanke's performance, and therefore to make an informed judgment as to whether he deserves re-appointment.

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Remember That Whole Thing About Fixing Our Financial System?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Business

"Everybody understands," Geithner said on This Week, "that we cannot have our financial system go back to the practices that brought this economy to the brink of collapse." The problem is, it already has.

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Fed Transparency Bill Progresses In House, Struggles In Senate

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

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Ron Paul's [R, TX-14] bill to audit the Federal Reserve (H.R. 1207) has reached another landmark. Every single House Republican has now co-sponsored i...

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Fed Refuses To Identify Recipients Of $2 Trillion In Emergency Taxpayer Loans, Bloomberg Sues For Info

Bloomberg | Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Alison Fitzgerald | Posted 12.11.2008 | Business

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The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the...