Tag: Federal Reserve

Fed ends seven-year era of zero interest rates

Fed ends seven-year era of zero interest rates

Joseph Lawler · December 16, 2015 8:07 pm

Pulling Away Punch Bowls

Ike Brannon · December 16, 2015 7:10 pm

Investors have effectively taken it as assumed that Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen will raise interest rates. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

With rate hike expected, focus shifts to Fed language

Joseph Lawler · December 16, 2015 5:01 am

High inflation continues to impact Americans.

Inflation ticks up to 0.5 percent in November

Joseph Lawler · December 15, 2015 1:34 pm

Here Comes the Interest Rates Rise

Here Comes the Interest Rates Rise

Irwin M. Stelzer · December 12, 2015 5:01 am

Bank of America on Thursday squeaked by the Federal Reserve's stress tests for banks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Bank of America passes Fed’s stress test

Joseph Lawler · December 10, 2015 3:40 pm

Since leaving the Fed early in 2014, Bernanke has taken a role as a scholar at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington and has published a memoir in addition to his consulting roles. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Bernanke named chairman of advisory panel to bond giant PIMCO

Joseph Lawler · December 7, 2015 9:34 pm

Narayana Kocherlakota, the outgoing president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said at a conference in Philadelphia that the Fed made "choices that were designed to keep both employment and prices needlessly low for years." (AP Photo)

Fed made choices ‘designed’ to keep employment low, official says

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2015 10:19 pm

November jobs report clears expectations with 211,000 new jobs, 5 percent unemployment

November jobs report clears expectations with 211,000 new jobs, 5 percent unemployment

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2015 1:32 pm

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined the bipartisan congressional pile-on against Secretary of State John Kerry's speech on the peace process in Israel and the Palestinian territories earlier in the day Wednesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cruz steps outside GOP orthodoxy with free-market criticism of Fed

Joseph Lawler · December 4, 2015 5:01 am

In congressional questioning, the Federal Reserve chairwoman said "it is something that is certainly worth considering," although not something the central bank has studied yet, as far as she knows. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yellen interested in climate change’s risks to financial system

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2015 5:05 pm

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said, "I think financing federal fiscal spending by tapping the resources of the Federal Reserve sets a bad precedent and impinges on the independence of the central bank. It weakens fiscal discipline." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yellen bashes highway bill for using Fed money

Joseph Lawler · December 3, 2015 4:41 pm