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U.S. stocks advanced, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to the highest level in more than a month, as the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting to decide whether more monetary stimulus is needed to boost the economy.
The tax hikes which are schedule for 2013 could shave 5 percent off GDP and throw the county into a full-fledged depression.
Foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record high in April. China, the largest buyer of Treasury debt, increased its holdings slightly after trimming them for two straight months.
Despite all of the Federal Reserve’s interventions, the U.S. economy remains moribund. To borrow a term from Lord Keynes, the Fed is “pushing on a string.” What is a central planner to do?
It was late at night in October of last year when the strange email arrived. In fact, I only read it by accident and did not delete it by some miracle of fate. Before the Euro Crisis erupted in 2009, I was just another economics professor, minding
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It is not a waste of time to revisit the topic of business bashing, especially in light of President Obama's current attacks on wealth creation. He says he prefers job creation, as if the latter were possible without the former.
The world is on now on the brink of a global credit crisis that could be far worse than the tumultuous events of 2008.
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The recent economic crisis left the median American family in 2010 with no more wealth than in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, the Federal Reserve said Monday.
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Beneath a photo of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the headline on the Drudge Report Wednesday read "WAITING."
Depositors withdrew a total of about $100 million per day over the last month in a safe-haven bid fueled by uncertainty over policies that might be adopted as pressure grows to keep U.S. currency in the country.
After Bernanke's testimony on Thursday, expectations that the Fed would do QE3 at its June 20 dropped sharply.
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Fitch Ratings reiterated on Thursday it would cut its sovereign credit rating for the United States next year if Washington cannot come to grips with its deficits and create a "credible" fiscal consolidation plan. It also said it would immediately
Trust and confidence in the stock market has been shattered in the past few years.
The Federal Reserve released a proposal to enact an international agreement on higher capital standards for banks, known as Basel III, that largely rejects pleas by the U.S. banking industry to soften parts of the new standards.
Why would the Fed push for another round of quantitative easing when the first two rounds have failed?
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