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Bernanke's Replacement Likely To Fuel Conservative Ire

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.25.2013 | Business

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One day soon conservatives won't have Ben Bernanke to kick around any more. Instead, the next Federal Reserve Chairman will likely be somebody who wil...

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Yellen: Fed Should Focus On Jobs

Reuters | Posted 04.04.2013 | Business

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(Adds comments on Japan stimulus) By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should ...

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The Last Liberal Branch of Government

Robert Kuttner | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics

A speech delivered by Janet Yellen, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, began by reminding the audience that the Fed's mandate is a society of high employment, not just low inflation, and she made several important points that seem to have eluded President Obama -- all of which are implicit rebukes to the Administration's fiscally deflationary approach to the recovery. What sort of a topsy-turvy world is it when we have to look to the Federal Reserve, normally the home of inflation hawks and shills for commercial bankers, for ordinary common sense on the economic recovery? It's not that the Reserve has become dangerously left wing. It's that the rest of Washington has been captured by the deflation delusion.

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Fed's Number Two Hints At More Stimulus

Reuters | Posted 08.06.2012 | Business

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By Ros Krasny BOSTON, June 6 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve's second-highest official on Wednesday laid out the case ...

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Fed Paper: Chance Of U.S. Recession In 2012 Tops 50 Percent

Posted 11.14.2011 | Business

The European debt crisis is raising the odds of a U.S. recession, with economic contraction more likely than not by early 2012, according to resea...

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Fed's Yellen: Central Bank Looking At Ways To Offer More Stimulus

Posted 12.21.2011 | Business

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DENVER (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is looking at ways to offer further monetary stimulus to a shaky U.S. economic recovery, the central bank's...

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Federal Reserve's Actions May Increase Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 06.28.2011 | Business

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The Federal Reserve's purchases of more than $2 trillion in mortgage and U.S. government debt may cause an upswing in unemployment, a top regional Fed...

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Federal Reserve Board Gets Two New Members

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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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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Yellen: Job Creation Is A `High Priority'

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen, the president's pick to be the second-highest ranking official at the Federal Reserve, acknowledged Thursday that reg...

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Obama Chooses Janet Yellen as Vice President of Federal Reserve

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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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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Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve San Francisco President, To Be Nominated For Vice Chairwoman Of Fed

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday will name Janet Yellen to be vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve and will fill two other vaca...

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Obama and The Dole of Doves

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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Janet Yellen's confirmation should further cement the Phillips Curve philosophy held at the Fed, that inflation is engendered from too much prosperity and not from too much money creation.

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Obama's Reported Picks For Federal Reserve Praised By Economists

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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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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Janet Yellen Tapped By Obama As Fed Vice Chairman

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's likely choice of Janet Yellen to become vice chairman of the Federal Reserve would favor a policy that str...

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Top Fed Official Warns Jobs Will Be Scarce As 'Paradigm Shift' Slows Hiring

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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A top Federal Reserve official warned Monday that even as the economy starts to grow again, employers are likely to continue squeezing more productivi...

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Who Will Replace Bernanke: If He Goes, Who's Next?

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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Should the Senate decline to confirm Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term, here's a list of possible candidates to replace him: Do...

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Federal Reserve: Weak Recovery Means High Unemployment For Several Years

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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WASHINGTON — Unemployment likely will remain high for the next several years because the economic recovery won't be strong enough to spur robust...

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Fed President "Not Confident" Recession Avoidable

Reuters Via CNBC | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen on Thursday indicated a willingness to cut U.S. interest rates further and said she was "not...

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