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Exceptions To Derivatives Trading Rule Dilute Regulation

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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Derivatives regulation has been on the nation's financial reform agenda for months. Undoing the Clinton-era law that exempted swaps from oversight is ...

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Federal Reserve: Senate Consensus Building To Weaken Central Bank

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Consensus is building in the Senate for legislation that would significantly weaken the Federal Reserve by stripping its power to o...

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Newsweek: The Recession Is Over! But Not for You

newsweek.com | Posted 08.25.2009 | Business

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Irrational exuberance, it's not. But even stagnation would be an improvement over recent history. The U.S. economy shrank at nearly a 6 percent annual...

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Obama's Financial Reform: Fed Powers Worries Some In Congress

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plan to increase oversight of banks and other financial institutions ran into skepticism Thursday on Capit...

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Here Comes Hyperinflation

Henry Blodget | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business

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Henry Blodget

Arthur Laffer joins the chorus of economists predicting that the Fed's massive stimulus will eventually lead to hyper-inflation. And I agree.

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A Funeral for the Phillips Curve

Michael Pento | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

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Michael Pento

Investors who are banking for a silver lining to this recession may be disappointed by both a continued increase in the unemployment rate, yet stubbornly high inflation.

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Do You Still Believe it Wasn't Speculation?

Jeff Madrick | Posted 09.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Futures, The Federal Reserve, Oil Prices, Oil Speculation, Inflation, Oil Futures, Crude Oil Prices, Oil, Oil Futures Trading, Business News
Jeff Madrick

Oil is a financial asset now. It attracts hundreds of billions of dollars of institutional investment. And like all financial assets throughout time, it is given to fashion and fad.

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The Inflation Answer

Jeff Madrick | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business

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Jeff Madrick

Is Bernanke succumbing to the growing pressure from Wall Street and hard line mainstreamers that inflation is now America's concern, not recession?

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