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Recent economic news: Monetary policy

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War footing : Monetary and fiscal stimulus make a potent, if uneasy, combination
THE Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is the big event of the year for central bankers. But defining monetary policy is far harder ...
Eric Leeper, Bank, US Treasury, US Federal Reserve, America, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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Monetary illusions : Central bankers are not magicians. Don’t count on them to conjure up remedies if the rich economies flag
OVER the past few years the reputations of the rich world’s central bankers have fluctuated wildly. When the financial crisis struck, they were blamed for allowing the housing and credit ...
America, US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Germany, Bank of England, All keywords...
economist.com
1 day ago
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Swedish Move Highlights Uneven Europe Recovery
FRANKFURT — The Swedish central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Thursday to help head off inflation as the country’s economy surges, highlighting the divergence of growth in Europe. The ...
European Central Bank, Greece, Spain, Europe, Portugal, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 days ago
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Monetary Fund Warns G-7 on Debt Levels
The world’s most developed economies, which have been racking up spending since the mid-1960s, face record levels of debt as a result of the 2008-9 financial crisis and have little ...
International Monetary Fund, The New York Times, The New York Times, Ireland, Greece, All keywords...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
3 days ago
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Morning Take-Out
–Wall Street insiders are selling as quickly as they can. Forbes says they “have undertaken more than five times the number of stock sales of their corporate shares as they ...
Forbes, Kansas City Fed, Rubber, Credit Suisse, Y Combinator, All keywords...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
3 days ago
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Fed Divided on Move to Buy U.S. Debt
Federal Reserve officials expressed considerable uncertainty before they took a nearly unanimous vote on Aug. 10 to take a modest step to bolster the flagging recovery, according to the central ...
US Federal Reserve, The New York Times, The New York Times, Federal Open Market Committee, Bank, All keywords...
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
4 days ago
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Minutes Show a Fed Divided on Move to Buy U.S. Debt
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials expressed considerable uncertainty and skepticism before they took a nearly unanimous vote on Aug. 10 to bolster the flagging economic recovery by buying a fairly ...
US Federal Reserve, Bank, Federal Open Market Committee, WASHINGTON, Ben S. Bernanke, All keywords...
nytimes.com
4 days ago
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Monetarists Follow Milton Friedman to the Grave: Caroline Baum
Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics, died in 2006. Monetarism, the school of thought he founded, seems to have died with him, judging from recent comments. Academics, such as Princeton’s ...
Milton Friedman, US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Caroline Baum, Alan Blinder, All keywords...
bloomberg.com
5 days ago
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Bank of England will use 'all powers' to stave off any future crisis
In a major position paper, Charles Bean said that the Bank had been powerless to prevent what he called the "Great Contraction" of 2008 because control of interest rates was ...
Charles Bean, United Kingdom, Mervyn King, Bank of England, Deputy governor, All keywords...
telegraph.co.uk
6 days ago
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Ben Bernanke faces pressure to prop up US economic recovery
When Ben Bernanke addresses the annual symposium of central bankers in Jackson Hole tomorrow he does so against arguably the most challenging backdrop in his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. ...
Ben Bernanke, United States, US Federal Reserve, Obama, Bongo, All keywords...
guardian.co.uk
1 week ago
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Race to the bottom : A weak economy and an active Federal Reserve have driven the dollar down since June. Will that last?
THREE months ago, when Europe’s debt crisis had markets panicking about sovereign risk, it seemed that all roads led to the dollar. The greenback was rising against the other big ...
US Federal Reserve, America, Europe, Bank of Japan, Japan, All keywords...
economist.com
2 weeks ago
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Record jump in UK food prices keeps inflation high
Higher prices for vegetables, meat, fruit and mineral waters, soft drinks and juices all helped keep inflation on the CPI measure at 3.1 per cent in July, the Office for ...
Office for National Statistics, Mervyn King, Food, Record increase food, James Kirkup, All keywords...
telegraph.co.uk
2 weeks ago
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Fed Official Says Bank Risks a New Boom-and-Bust Cycle
As president of the Kansas City Fed since 1991, Mr. Hoenig is the longest-serving of the 12 district bank presidents. He is known as an “inflation hawk,” meaning that his ...
Thomas M. Hoenig, US Federal Reserve, Federal Open Market Committee, President, Ben S. Bernanke, All keywords...
nytimes.com
3 weeks ago
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Is QE2 finally the economic collapse?
The Great Depression. Wall Street in 1987. Japan in 1997. Points of economic collapse are generally crystal clear in the rear-view mirror. Professional politicians in Japan have been telling stories ...
United States, Hedgeye, Japan, US Treasury, US Federal Reserve, All keywords...
money.cnn.com
3 weeks ago
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Secret gold swap has spooked the market
The news that a mystery bank has just pawned the family jewels gave traders a jolt – nervous about the sudden transfer of almost 20pc of the world's annual gold ...
Bank of International Settlements, Bank, International Monetary Fund, Jim Sinclair, China, All keywords...
telegraph.co.uk
1 month ago
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