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Fed Announces New Bank Stress Tests

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Financial Industry, Video, Stress Tests, Europe Crisis, Federal Reserve Board, Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank, Banks, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Business News

As the sovereign debt crisis in Europe threatens to spill over into the United States, the federal government wants to make sure that banks are prepar...

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Art Installation Takes On Debt

AP/The Huffington Post | By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Debt, Federal Reserve Bank, American Economics, Kansas, Public Art, Economic Crisis, USA, Protest Art, Iou, Kansas Public Art, Political Artwork, Art Installation, Video, Arts News

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A temporary art structure in Kansas City, Mo., made up of dozens of large steel shipping containers is creating a buzz with its me...

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Fed Officials Split Over Policy Changes

Reuters | Mark Felsenthal and Glenn Somerville | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Inflation, Commodity Prices, Policymakers, Middle East, Federal Reserve Bank, Bond Buying Program, Central Banks, Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Officials, Federal Open Market Committee, Business News

WASHINGTON (By Mark Felsenthal and Glenn Somerville) - Some Federal Reserve officials last month believed they would have to hold to an easy monet...

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Federal Reserve Unlikely To Extend Quantitative Easing, Top Officials Say

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK, March 25 - With the economy on firmer footing the Federal Reserve Bank is unlikely to extend its bond-buying stimulus program beyond a p...

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Global Central Banks Face An Essential Revolution

Reuters | Paul Carrel, Mark Felsenthal, Pedro da Costa, David Milliken and Alan Wheatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Kohn, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Jean-Claude Trichet, Central Banks, Japan Earthquake, Federal Reserve Bank, Richard Fisher, Ben Bernanke, Otmar Issing, Alan Greenspan, Gdp, Ecb, Bundesbank, European Central Bank, Business News

By Paul Carrel, Mark Felsenthal, Pedro da Costa, David Milliken and Alan Wheatley FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON - On a warm, Lisbon day last May, Jean-Clau...

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Bernanke: Dodd-Frank Should 'Level Playing Field' For Small Banks

Reuters | Dave Clark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Banks, Watson, Federal Reserve Bank, Small Banks, Richard Fisher, Ben Bernanke, Thomas Hoenig, Jeopardy, Wall Street, Ibm, Big Banks, Financial Regulations, Dodd-Frank Bill, Business News

SAN DIEGO - New financial regulatory reforms should help reduce the edge that large banks have over smaller ones because of their implicit support f...

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U.S. Recovery Gaining Traction, Fed Officials Say

Reuters | Kim Palmer and Sakari Suoninen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deficit, Commodities, Frankfurt, Consumer Prices, Japan Disaster, Middle East, Sandra Pianalto, Federal Reserve Bank, Richard Fisher, Foreclosure, Economic Recovery, University of Akron, Business News

AKRON, Ohio/FRANKFURT - The U.S. recovery is gaining traction, two top Federal Reserve officials said on Tuesday, though they differed on the risks ...

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New Stock Market Signal Identifies Bubbles

Wired | Brandon Keim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve Bank, Yaneer Bar Yam, Economic Theories, Behavioral Economics, Comovement, Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Bubbles, Crashes, Crashes Signal, Business News

Complexity researchers who study the behavior of stock markets may have identified a signal that precedes crashes. They say the telltale sign is a me...

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Is Their 'Pent Up' Demand In The Economy?

Bloomberg News | Alex Kowalski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gdp, Inflation, US Companies, National Association for Business Economics, Federal Reserve Bank, Oil Prices, Consumer Confidence, Consumer Demand, Business News

U.S. companies expect the economy to grow faster than previously estimated as demand from consumers, businesses and other countries picks up, a survey...

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Bank Of America Fights Pressure To Buy Back Bad Mortgages

AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trouble Mortgages, Investor Claims, Bank of America, Federal Reserve Bank, Housing Crisis, Mortgage Buy Backs, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

NEW YORK — Bank of America said it will not buy back bad mortgages from a series of high-profile investors who complained defaults are being han...

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Letterman's Running Gag About Crashing Obama/Oprah Dinner on Martha's Vineyard: Hasn't Dave Heard Teddy Kennedy Died?

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

David Letterman continued joking about not being invited to dinner with Oprah and Obama in Martha's Vineyard even after he knew the president was delivering a eulogy for Ted Kennedy on Saturday.

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Fed Audit Supported By 75% Of Americans: Survey

Posted 05.25.2011

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The calls to audit the Federal Reserve have come fast and furious in the last few weeks. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is continuing to push back against ...

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Who Can we Bank on as Crisis Gets Worse?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve Bank, Rico, Obama, Finance, Financial Regulation, Goldman Sachs, Subprime Crisis, Hank Paulson, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Foreclosure News, Business News

Washington seems tethered at the hip to Wall Street and continues to do its bidding. Obama wants to give us confidence, but the most trenchant critics believe a total collapse is in the offing.

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Freddie Mac, When Are You Coming Back?

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve Bank, Fannie Mae, U.S. Economy, Sec, Freddie Mac Loss, Economy, Naca, Bailout Outrage, Business News

As housing implodes, is our nation at an economic tipping point?

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Why The Government Can't "Fix" the Crisis

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moral Hazard, Bernanke, Hedge Funds, Consumer Spending, Greenspan, Fianacial Crisis, Greed, Treasury Department, Depression, Free Market Capitalism, Federal Reserve Bank, Market Confidence, James Suriwieki, Capitalism, Recession, Lehman Bros, Aig, JPMorgan Chase, Consumer Confidence, Wall Street Crash, Congressional Bailout, William Buitner, Bear Stearns, Alan Greenspan, Market Collapse, Business News

In what was for many an unbelievable chain of events, markets started melting down, confidence shattered and believers in unregulated transactions realized something was very, very wrong.

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The Black-Scholes Atomic Debt Bomb & 7 Predictions

Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011

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By not deflating the supply of fiat, debt-based exchange units for so many years, the over supply of them, each a claim on America's future, has grown by quantum levels of risk.

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Fed Sees Economic Woes Spilling Into 2009

New York Times | Stephen Labaton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal policy makers have concluded that the turmoil plaguing the housing and financial markets is likely to spill deep into 2009, becoming one of th...

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Federal Reserve Bank Of New York Has World's Biggest Stash Of Gold

Forbes | Liz Moyer with Tatiana Shumsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gold Stash, Federal Reserve Bank, Fort Knox, Gold, Gold Trading, Goldfinger, Business News

Gold trading at near-record highs above $900 an ounce begs the question: Who's got the most? If you guessed the U.S. government, you're right, sort o...

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