Tag Archives: Federal Reserve

Economic Prospects for the Long Run

Economic Prospects for the Long Run
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
At Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
May 18, 2013

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Fisher: Fiscal Policy. Oy!

Fiscal Policy. Oy!
(With Reference to Ben Bernanke, Ken Arrow, Thomas Jefferson, William Shakespeare and the Oracle of Omaha)
Richard W. Fisher
Remarks at the 2013 National Association for Business Economics
Houston, TX · May 16, 2013

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Economists Discuss the Federal Reserve

Economists Michael Bordo, Marvin Goodfriend, Barry Eichengreen, and Allan Meltzer share their opinions on the Fed—past, present, and future.

Watch Sandra Pianalto, Cleveland Fed president, comment on how the past informs present Fed policies: http://www.clevelandfed.org/annualreport

Visit the Cleveland Fed’s channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/clevelandfed


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Crises Before and After the Creation of the Fed


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Crises Before and After the Creation of the Fed


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Estimating Trend Rate of Economic Growth Using CFNAI


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Bernanke: Monitoring the Financial System

Monitoring the Financial System
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
At the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois May 10, 2013

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Revisiting Reflexivity: Contextualizing Cause & Effect

Fed vs S&P
Source: Doubleline, ZeroHedge

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Genius Idea: Fed Statement Tracker

This is a stroke of genius:

Since the Federal Reserve releases a template created statement each meeting, we can track the changes between the statements easily.

The WSJ automated this process in a way that allows you to compare the changes in any two statements since 2007:

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Low Interest Rates Have Yet To Spur Job Growth


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