Federal Reserve System
Fed decision depresses markets despite positive outlook
Federal Open Market Committee sees improvement in economy, but its decision to slow purchases of mortgage-related debt hits confidence and divides analysts
Subprimes didn’t perform worse than prime loans: Philadelphia Fed
Philadelphia Fed’s loans data analysis yields unexpected results
Borders affect prices
Boston Federal Reserve looks at the role of international borders in segmenting markets
Influential senator wants US supraregulator - report
Senate Banking Committee’s Chris Dodd wants four American supervisors to merge into one, says report
Not everyone can make it to the top
Boston Federal Reserve finds American families’ economic mobility is decreasing
Fed to intervene on pay, UK minister dismisses bankers’ “talent”
Federal Reserve to have authority on compensation, Wall Street Journal reports as British minister says bankers undeserving of high rewards. Moves part of global outcry over bankers’ bonuses
Fed names new regional chairs
Washington-based board announces heads of twelve Federal Reserve banks for 2010
No, the markets are not in state of hysteria about US inflation
Brendan Brown, the chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ, asks if fears of prices exploding in the US are as irrational as some suggest
Fed governor pans accounting developments
Federal Reserve’s Elizabeth Duke says both FASB’s and IASB’s new approaches raise “number of concerns”
Beige Book cautiously positive
Federal Reserve’s Beige Book suggests economic activity continued to stabilise
US to end money-market guarantees this month
Treasury secretary Tim Geithner notes financial sector starting to wean itself of state support
Estate agents do serve social role
Boston Federal Reserve looks at the conflict of interest between a seller of a house and a real-estate agent
Greenspan blames “human nature” for crunch
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan sceptical that another crisis can be avoided until humans learn to accept cyclical nature of capitalism
A model for monetary policy analysis
San Francisco Federal Reserve finds labour market impacts policy's goals
Bright ideas and sombre moods
Malan Rietveld reports on a recent conference at the London School of Economics on the future of financial regulation
From triumph to the brink of despair
Robert Pringle looks at the last two decades, as viewed through the pages of Central Banking
Early warning models doomed to fail
San Francisco Federal Reserve research is sceptical about the effectiveness of early warning systems in predicting the timing of crises
Fed wants delay on release of loan details
Federal Reserve says naming loan recipients would hinder its ability to manage current and future crises
Trichet: asset prices impact policy
European Central Bank’s Jean-Claude Trichet says that asset-price dynamics impact the central bank’s policy decisions
Bernanke nominated for second term
President Obama wants Bernanke to serve second four-year term after staving off a financial meltdown
Fed’s Madigan: five lessons for crisis management
Federal Reserve’s markets chief Brian Madigan says Walter Bagehot’s central tenet remains relevant
Crisis highlighted importance of liquidity: Bernanke
Fed chairman uses Jackson Hole address to stress need for macroprudential approach
Education pays: Philadelphia Fed on innovation
Philadelphia Federal Reserve looks at where does geographically adaptation to innovation take place