The House bill that would shine a light on the Federal Reserve reached 290 cosponsors on Wednesday. Authored by longtime crusader for Fed transparenc...
The Independent | Stephen Foley | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
One year ago, the assembled brains of the Fed and Wall Street sealed the fate of one of its oldest banks. In this gripping account of that weekend las...
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
At the New Albany meeting, people were polite and even relaxed enough to chuckle whenever someone spoke with dry Indiana wit. Yet Hill silenced would-be hecklers by saying "Let me answer that before you interrupt, please!"
Jim Randel | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Jim Cramer may like housing stocks, but if he is betting his ranch on the fact that housing prices will spike again like they did in the early part of this century, he'd better hedge his bets.
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Hill could not represent a southern Indiana consensus view, because there was none; whatever he chose to do, it would cost him votes.
Robert Reich | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
If you'd have asked me three months ago whether Bernanke would be confirmed, I'd have said no. Congress (and much of the public) is still furious about the bank bailouts, as well they should be.
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve delivered a vote of confidence in the economy Wednesday, saying it would slow the pace of an emergency rescue p...
ft.com | Aline van Duyn | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is aggressively hiring traders as it seeks to manage its burgeoning securities holdings, making the central bank ...
Financial Times | Henny Sender | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business
Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by trading with the Federal Reserve, raising questions about whether the central bank is driving hard e...
Rob Johnson | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Innovation simply implies the use of a new method or technique. It can be harmful or it can be helpful. Let's keep score.
Marshall Auerback | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
They know exactly how to find leverage (no pun intended) and exploit it, and are frighteningly adept in negotiating strategy (as to what issues to run through what channels).
New York Times | Edmund Andrews | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business
Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on a publicity campaign with a message: the central bank is here to help, and it is not as my...
AP | Jeannine Aversa, AP Economics Writer | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday fended off congressional skepticism about expanding the Fed's duties to police b...
Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home
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...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Efforts to shine daylight on the Federal Reserve have failed so far in the Senate. But with Ron Paul's Fed audit bill already well over the number of ...
Harry Hanbury | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
As details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON During the debate over financial regulation, the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, has been surprisingly quiet....
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business
How long will Ben Bernanke last as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? Well, it depends on who you ask. Bernanke is scheduled to defend his record in...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
As President Obama proposes expanding the power of the Federal Reserve, the movement against its closed process continues to grow stronger in the Hous...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis took a pounding Thursday from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. One of the most damning exchanges ...
zerohedge.blogspot.com | Posted 07.13.2009 | Business
It is no surprise that in order to incite a return to pre-Lehman economic levels (the administration's #1 goal bar none), not only the stock market wo...
Wall Street Journal | JOELLEN PERRY | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a rare public rebuke of central banks, suggested the European Central Bank and its counterparts in the U.S. and Br...
Washington Post | Binyamin Appelbaum and Neil Irwin | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business
On the day before Thanksgiving in 1991, the U.S. Senate voted to vastly expand the emergency powers of the Federal Reserve. Almost no one noticed. ...
Wall Street Journal | BRIAN BLACKSTONE | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan Tuesday brushed back critics who contend that easy monetary policy fueled the housing bubble and ensuin...
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The White House told industry officials on Friday that it is leaning toward recommending that the Federal Reserve become the superc...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business