James Bullard
Fed presidents weigh in on QE as job numbers improve, debt ceiling showdown looms
Five of 12 regional Fed presidents have staked out their positions on bank's asset purchases in recent days as FOMC gears up for next meeting on December 17
Bullard warns weak inflation may put brakes on QE tapering
Inflation may be pushed even lower by a decision to taper, raising risks of deflation, the St Louis Fed president notes; calls for press conference after each FOMC meeting
Bullard says Fed should ape ECB press conference schedule
James Bullard of the St Louis Fed wants to see the Fed chair give a press conference after every meeting of the FOMC - not after alternate meetings, as is the case currently
Bullard says US government should scrap CPI inflation targeting
The St Louis Fed president believes switching to the Fed's PCE measure would provide clarity to the public about which measure more accurately reflects consumer price inflation
Caruana backs Bernanke taper timetable but warns banks to prepare for volatility
BIS general manager says Fed chairman Ben Bernanke was right to signal a tightening of monetary policy but warns stress tests will be needed to prepare banks for an increase in volatility
Fed's monetary policy deviates from best practice, says Bullard
Fed monetary policy has deviated from central bank best practice and should be used ‘to meet policy objectives, not calendar objectives', says St Louis Fed president
St Louis Fed president launches new household financial stability research centre
James Bullard unveils new research centre that will focus on understanding links between household balance sheets, the overall performance of the US economy, and stability and upward mobility
Bullard says inflation must pick up before asset purchases can be slowed
St Louis Fed president says future of QE should depend on inflation developments; suggests FOMC is more likely to taper than increase asset purchases
Fed’s Bullard recommends QE for ECB's next move
St Louis Fed president and FOMC voter says quantitative easing has worked in the US and Japan, and could be made to work in Europe on a GDP-weighted basis
Central bank independence: more myth than reality?
Crisis responses are placing a heavy burden on many central banks. But there is no evidence showing that legally independent central banks have a better track record in monetary policy
Bullard slams Fed’s 2012 policy
St Louis Fed president criticises ‘relatively weak’ Federal Reserve policy in 2012, but says new measures have now stepped easing up a gear
Bullard revels in greater global certainty
St Louis Fed president says uncertainty is falling around the globe; should benefit growth in euro area, emerging markets and US
Fed’s Bullard blasts ‘fiscalisation’ of ECB
James Bullard defends central bank independence while criticising the European Central Bank for mixing monetary and fiscal policy in its outright monetary transactions
Fed's new monetary policy strategy is "flexible inflation-targeting", says Bullard
Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis president James Bullard says putting an explicit inflation target together with a sensible stabilisation policy is flexible inflation-targeting
Fiscal stabilisation policy is redundant, says Bullard
St Louis Federal Reserve study says fiscal policy is ill-suited as a stabilisation policy and that monetary policy, even at the zero bound, is a more effective tool
Fed reveals design of new interest rate projections
Federal Reserve releases templates to be used in next Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) to project participants' views of the appropriate path for monetary policy
Fed 'very close' to adopting inflation target, says Bullard
St Louis Federal Reserve president says FOMC nearing agreement to introduce inflation targeting in US; move is part of effort to improve transparency at the Fed
St Louis Fed’s Bullard discusses importance of revised data in policy-making
St Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard says large revisions to key economic estimates can pose challenges to policymakers
Fed policy must be state contingent: Bullard
St Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard calls for FOMC to discard fixed dates for setting policy
QE2 is classic monetary policy: Fed’s Bullard
St Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard says effects of quantitative easing too similar to interest rate loosening
Fed minutes reveal split over exit strategy
Minutes from Federal Open Market Committee meeting show division among ranks over monetary policy exit strategy