The Fed

The Fed Isn't Helping

The Student Review | Posted 05.03.2012

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The Student Review

If the Federal Reserve Bank was established to prevent or weaken financial crises, then it is failing. The U.S. is a vastly more powerful and rich nation than it was before the Bank was established, but it's still susceptible to large fluctuations during crises.

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Halfway Through the Lost Decade

Robert Scheer | Posted 04.26.2012

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Robert Scheer

Does anyone care that the economy is floundering and that we are not getting out of this crisis anytime soon? Housing values are in the cellar, the Fed foresees unemployment remaining unacceptably high for the next three years, and national economic growth is predicted to be, at best, anemic.

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Krugman: Chairman Bernanke Should Listen To Professor Bernanke

New York Times | Posted 04.24.2012

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When the financial crisis struck in 2008, many economists took comfort in at least one aspect of the situation: the best possible person, Ben Bernanke...

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When Everyone Gets a Trophy, No One Wins

Michael Sigman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Lake Wobegon, Interest Rates, College Students, Private School Students, Inflation, Garrison Keillor, Elementary School, Huey Long, The Fed, Grade Inflation, Kindergarten, Education News
Michael Sigman

The nation has become a self-parodic reflection of Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon: thanks to collusion between parents and educators, the vast majority of all private school children are virtually guaranteed to be above average.

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Meddling in Banks Causes Its Own Perils

Clifford W. Smith | Posted 04.04.2012

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Clifford W. Smith

We are creating monumental problems down the road from regulators pursuing this disruptive, counterproductive and dysfunctional course of protecting the banks and also intervening with their operations.

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The Dallas Fed and Too-Big-to-Fail

Robert Teitelman | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Federal Reserve, Economics, Dallas, Too Big to Fail, TBTF Banks, Texas History, Economic Critique, The Fed, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Texas survived and again prospered, but in politicians like Rick Perry and Ron Paul it still displays a broad populist streak that includes enthusiastically bashing the Fed.

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How the Fed Steals for the 1%

Tom Mullen | Posted 05.13.2012

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Tom Mullen

The Occupiers mistakenly blame capitalism, but it is not capitalism that is behind this inequity. It is the completely anti-capitalist Federal Reserve System.

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Fed: You're Wealthier, Even If You Can't Tell

AP | DEREK KRAVITZ and DAVE CARPENTER | Posted 05.09.2012

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WASHINGTON — Americans are climbing further out of the hole they sank into during the Great Recession. A stock rally at the end of 2011 helped ...

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Banks and Congress Grapple With Stubborn, Stupid Facts

Michael Winship | Posted 05.07.2012

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Michael Winship

Witness the resistance to facts on the part of banking institutions and certain members of the congressional leadership, despite regulations demanding that they allow facts and figures to be reported, information that could keep us from the edge of yet another economic meltdown.

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The Mystery Behind Rising Oil Prices Solved

Michael Pento | Posted 05.02.2012

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Michael Pento

If the global economy was indeed recovering why is the demand for gas at the pump falling? In reality, the global economy is very weak and the U.S. is very far removed from a sustainable recovery.

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Baby Boomer's Method to Occupy Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 12.07.2011

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Don McNay

If I were 22 instead of 52, I'd probably be out on the streets. Instead, like most baby boomers, I'm watching the revolution on television. And supporting the protesters in a middle-aged way.

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Bernanke and the War on Senior Citizens

Don McNay | Posted 11.23.2011

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Don McNay

If you follow what the Federal Reserve is doing, all the moves are designed to protect Wall Street at the expense of Main Street.

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Bernanke Pushes Past Dissent, Continues To Make Bold Moves

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 11.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- For someone known as a consensus builder, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sure generates – and shrugs off – a lot of d...

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Help for Main Street, Not Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 10.15.2011

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Don McNay

Washington and Wall Street are tied at the hip and spend most of the time talking only to each other. They are connected socially and economically and have media outlets devoted to promoting their philosophies.

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Why Isn't the Economy Recovering?

Jim Worth | Posted 10.10.2011

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Jim Worth

For most Americans it has been a slow and painful recovery from this recession. Analysts, politicians, and pundits continually offer excuses for the ...

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How to Live on $0 a Day: My Expert Advice to Tim Geithner

Lesley Stern | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Financial Crisis, Credit Adviser, China, Financial Meltdown, Tim Geithner, Credit Counseling, Federal Budget Deficit, Finance, Budget, Federal Reserve, Congress, The Fed, Senate, Debt, Economic Crisis, Economy, Economic Disaster, Financial Advice, Credit, Debt Crisis, Comedy News
Lesley Stern

Tim, Tim, Tim. You've been throwing around a lot of scary words like "disaster" and "hardship" and you seem a little tense. Don't freak out. You're a babe in the woods when it comes to financial hardship, so let me guide you through this.

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Jobs Decline... Fed QE3 in the Works?

Harlan Green | Posted 09.11.2011

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Harlan Green

We are still in some sort of a disinflationary spiral. Yes, I said disinflation, which means the rate of inflation is falling, not rising as the holders of debt would have us believe.

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Why QE2 Failed: The Money All Went Overseas

Ellen Brown | Posted 09.10.2011

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Ellen Brown

The Fed's second round of "quantitative easing" involved $600 billion for the purchase of long-term government bonds. But the government never actually got the money; it went straight into the reserve accounts of foreign banks.

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Bank of America: Too Big to Follow the Law

Don McNay | Posted 08.29.2011

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Don McNay

Take from your money from places like Bank of America and move them banks and credit unions in your community. To my knowledge, none of them have paid a $8.5 billion settlement.

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It's Basic Economics, Stupid!

Harlan Green | Posted 08.28.2011

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Harlan Green

If politicians want to obsess over the possibility of future inflation, let them tackle the longer-term entitlement problems -- like Medicare, or foreign wars. But instead they are doing all the wrong things.

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Stimulating a Dead Economy

Jim Worth | Posted 08.17.2011

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Jim Worth

The U.S. economy is surviving only because of over-stimulation. We're living on fumes in this country, and the pursuit of happiness has come to an end for millions of families.

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The Economic Hangover: Part Two

Don McNay | Posted 08.08.2011

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Don McNay

The bailout and stimulus money allowed us to limp along for a couple of years. Now we are back to where we started, but worse, since we borrowed trillions to pay for it.

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Fed Announces Plans To Hold Regular Media Briefings

Posted 05.25.2011

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will start holding regular media briefings on monetary policy next month, a historic shift to greater openne...

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Zach Carter

House Republicans Amplify Attacks On Elizabeth Warren, Consumer Protection

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a hearing marked by openly hostile questioning from House Republicans, consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren made her highly anticipated...

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Zach Carter

Gambling On Hunger

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Since July, the price of corn has jumped 62 percent. Wheat has climbed by two-thirds, and soybeans are 38 percent more expensive. For ma...

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