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How The Fed Is Reshaping Wall Street In Secret

The Wall Street Journal | VICTORIA MCGRANE and JON HILSENRATH | Posted 02.21.2012

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The Federal Reserve has operated almost entirely behind closed doors as it rewrites the rule book governing the U.S. financial system, a stark contras...

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Apple + Fed = Gains!

Michael Farr | Posted 03.26.2012

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From Europe to Washington to Florida to China to Apple and earnings season; investors are barraged by an assault of major stunning stories.

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New Fed Roster More Likely To Support Boosting Economy

AP | By MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 01.24.2012

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NEW YORK -- If Chairman Ben Bernanke decides the economy needs more help from the Federal Reserve this year, he probably won't face as much resistance...

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Federal Reserve Keeps Europe At Arm's Length

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.29.2011

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As the eurozone crisis continues to develop, pressure for the European Central Bank to act is mounting. Many want the ECB to bail out troubled Europea...

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Fed Announces New Bank Stress Tests

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 11.22.2011

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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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Why Was There Demand For Bad Loans Before The Crisis?

Naked Capitalism | Tom Adams and Yves Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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In common with other accounts of the financial crisis, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report notes that mortgage underwriting standards were ...

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Jimmy V, Elizabeth, Aretha & The Economics of Cancer

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2011

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We have become a nation where our leaders can throw billions at places like Goldman Sachs, which does nothing to touch the lives of average Americans, but underfund the war against cancer, which touches almost every family.

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Federal Reserve Board Gets Two New Members

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Two new members have been installed on the Federal Reserve, which has enormous power over Americans' pocketbooks. Janet Yellen bec...

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Quantitative Easing Is Just Devaluation

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the Federal Reserve Board gets ready for yet another round of quantitative easing (i.e. printing more money), one may well ask: why? If previous qu...

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Is Main Street Ready for the Second Wave of the Recession?

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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The phrase "double-dip recession" means little to most of us. To people on Main Street, it hasn't been been a "dip". We took a drop to the bottom two years ago and stayed there.

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Obama Chooses Janet Yellen as Vice President of Federal Reserve

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Putting a bigger stamp on the Federal Reserve, President Barack Obama on Thursday chose Janet Yellen as vice chairwoman of the cent...

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Fed Directors Spurn Senate Plan To Kick Off Bankers

Reuters | Kristina Cooke and Ann Saphir | Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal Reserve Bank directors say a Senate plan to kick bankers off the boards of regional Fed banks is an overreaction to one headline-grabbing inci...

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The "Don't Ever Give Up" Business Plan

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seth Godin, who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs be productive, says that business people never realize that with a little bit of push, they can move past a seeming dead end and reach business success. I hope that is true in my case.

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Federal Reserve, Bloomberg Lawsuit: Court Rules Fed Must Reveal Details Of Secret Bank Bailout

bloomberg.com | David Glovin and Bob Van Voris | Posted 05.25.2011

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March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Board must disclose documents identifying financial firms that might have collapsed without the largest ev...

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Obama's Reported Picks For Federal Reserve Praised By Economists

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Economists are cheering the Obama administration's rumored picks for the Federal Reserve, noting that the two economists and the bank regulator report...

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Taking a Stand Against Hate: Hotels Bar American Renaissance

Fred Redmond | Posted 05.25.2011

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Refusing to provide a forum for hate is not a denial of First Amendment free speech rights.

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Bonuses 2009: Why US Banks Deserve the Taxation Prepared by Obama

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

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Instead of trying to come up with a constructive solutio, the banks failed to accept that their exceptional earnings did not come to them.

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Geithner Testimony: New "Too Big To Fail" Legislation Won't Lead To More Bailouts

AP | JIM KUHNHENN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — An Obama administration plan to dissolve large, struggling financial firms rather than bail them out is encountering Republican res...

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The Fed Shuts Down Geithner's Request To Review Its Operations

bloomberg.com | Craig Torres and Robert Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve Board has rejected a request by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a public review of the centra...

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Change FICO Credit Scoring to Stimulate Economy and Address Housing and Banking Crisis

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans are proposing a 4% home mortgage Ponzi scheme that's the modern day version of "40 acres and a mule." It's every bit the false promise that dashed the hopes of ex-slaves after the Civil War.

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President Obama: Sign New Emancipation Proclamation to Free Us From Debt Slavery and Free-up the Economy

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. President, help us create "a more perfect Union" from the "bottom-up." You can be the Lincoln of our times and free us from the greed and "top-down" bondage that has brought us here.

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Toyota Projects First-Ever Annual Loss; Congress Disses Detroit

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress took a perverse pleasure in giving Detroit's CEOs and the UAW president the third degree -- unnecessary theater while our country suffers this economic decline.

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Anatomy Of A Panic

Ron Insana | Posted 05.25.2011

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It began with the bursting of the bubble in residential real estate here in the United States. It quickly spread to other hot real estate markets around the world. Complex debt instruments that were linked to sub-prime mortgages, both here and abroad, imploded in value.

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Fed Cuts Rates By Quarter Point

AP | Martin Crutsinger | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Federal Reserve, confronted with surging oil prices and a slumping housing market, on Wednesday cut a key interest rate by a quarter-point, the se...

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