Dennis Lockhart
Lockhart does not rule out further stimulus
Atlanta Federal Reserve president Dennis Lockhart says slow progress toward full employment justifies considerations for more Fed action
Fed 'not out of bullets' says Lockhart
Atlanta Fed president says monetary policy options are available; admits economy is 'closer to the threshold of contraction'
Déjà vu and monetary policy: Lockhart’s recent comments
A lack of consideration for price pressures signals that Fed officials continue to misconstrue the nature of central bank independence, Thomas Cargill writes
Fed’s Lockhart recommends renewed focus on monetary, credit aggregates
Atlanta Fed president also advocates Taylor-type rule to manage exit
Inflation often misunderstood: Atlanta Fed’s Lockhart
Atlanta Federal Reserve president Dennis Lockhart discusses common misuse of the term “inflation” in news reports
Commercial real-estate levelling off: Fed director
Federal Reserve’s director of banking supervision and regulation Patrick Parkinson strikes cautiously optimistic note on health of commercial real estate sector
SF Fed plays down role of structural unemployment
San Francisco Federal Reserve note supports view that monetary policy can address high US unemployment
Atlanta Fed’s Lockhart favours more explicit inflation target
Atlanta Federal Reserve president Dennis Lockhart says more explicit target will better anchor inflation expectations
Fed cannot bear full burden of job creation: Fisher, Plosser
Regional Federal Reserve presidents Richard Fisher and Charles Plosser say loosening monetary stance further will not cure unemployment ills; monetary policy no panacea for macroeconomic problems
FOMC faces tricky task in avoiding another bubble
FOMC officials’ pessimism about conditions highlights challenge central bank faces in fulfilling its dual mandate
Four risks to growth: Atlanta Fed’s Lockhart
Atlanta Federal Reserve president Dennis Lockhart counts Gulf of Mexico oil spill and commercial real estate sector risks among imminent threats to growth
Lockhart: Fed inflation anchor under threat
Atlanta Fed’s Dennis Lockhart warns that inflation expectations may be dislodged as a result of accommodative Fed stance
Fed presidents play down discount hike
Regional Fed presidents William Dudley, Dennis Lockhart and Janet Yellen deny that rise in discount rate equates to the end of accommodative policy
US real-estate concern goes global
Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Guy Debelle says US commercial real estate woes may impose further crippling losses on banks
Atlanta’s Lockhart: don’t politicise the Fed
Atlanta Federal Reserve’s Dennis Lockhart says Fed must have the capacity to make unpopular decisions
Fed presidents focus on commercial property fears
Atlanta and San Francisco Federal Reserve chiefs echo William Dudley’s warning on commercial real estate
Atlanta's Lockhart: exports won't save US
Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, does not expect a sudden return of exports as a driver of recovery in the United States in the remainder of 2009.
US offers $250bn in capital, markets shrug
Washington's unveiling of a $250 billion plan to recapitalise its banking sector did little to soothe equity-market sentiment on Tuesday, with gains at the opening bell proving short-lived.
Fannie, Freddie debt fears could have sparked run
Central bankers' fears over the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac threatened to lead to sales of US agency debt, the scale of which could have sparked a run, the US regulator responsible for the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) has said.
US bailout to include "significant" equity stake
The US Treasury is likely to spend a very significant amount of the $700 billion at its disposal on recapitalising the US's battered banking sector, an official who will oversee the Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP) told an audience in London on Monday.
Atlanta's Lockhart: financial sector matters
A working financial sector matters to us all, said Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve.
Fed must "respond pragmatically" to poorer outlook
Policymakers must be prepared to respond pragmatically to a recent bout of worse-than-expected data on the United States economy, said Dennis Lockhart, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve and a non-voting member of the Federal Open Market…
Bernanke gives gloomy forecast for US growth
Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Thursday that the United States economy would slump in the coming months.
Atlanta Fed names Lockhart as new president
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta announced Thursday 8 February that it has picked Dennis Lockhart, a 17-year veteran of Citigroup and now a professor of international business at Georgetown University as its new president.