United States
Speech by Robert Parry, San Francisco Fed, 23 Apr
SPEECH - Parry said on Tuesday in a speech titled 'Inside the Federal Reserve: A District Bank President's Perspective' uncertainty lingers about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery and the Fed can take its time deciding when to raise short-term…
Federal Reserve Board - Beige Book
REPORT - Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and based on information collected before April 16, 2002. This document summarizes comments received from business and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the…
Richmond's Broaddus says US recovery appears solid
US - Richmond Federal Reserve President Alfred Broaddus on Wednesday expressed confidence that the U.S. economic rebound would prove to be a solid one, but said the Fed needs more information to gauge the recovery's pace.
Speech by M Moskow, President, Chicago Fed, 17 Apr
SPEECH - Moskow said in a speech titled 'The Impact of Open Markets and Expanded Trade on Economic Development' that the U.S. economic recovery is underway and the full effects of the reduction in rates over the past 15 months have yet to be felt.
Speech by M Moskow, President, Chicago Fed, 22 Apr
SPEECH - In his opening remarks to the Asset Bubbles Conference Moskow said that during the last two decades, there have been instances throughout the developed and developing worlds of prolonged build-ups and sharp collapses in asset prices in stock,…
Speech by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, 22 Apr
SPEECH - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Monday in a speech titled 'Finance: United States and global' he saw early signs of a recovery in business capital spending but warned that he did not believe the corporate investment rebound would…
G10 ministers and governors communique
PRESS RELEASE - Communique of the ministers and governors of the Group of Ten, Washington D.C., 22 April.
An overview of the Federal Reserve System
FEATURE - In an interesting article Hoover's Company Profiles look at the history of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve Act followed the panic which ensued after the failure of New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company in 1907. J. P. Morgan strong…
More cogitating about world 'after Alan'
FEATURE - As various people remind us on an increasingly frequent basis, it's not too early to be speculating about the Greenspan succession question.
Testimony of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, 23 Apr
TESTIMONY - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that the board opposes proposals in Congress to raise deposit insurance coverage above its current cap of $100,000 per account.
IMF Press Conference
PRESS CONFERENCE - Transcript of a Press Conference Following The International Monetary and Financial Committee Meeting, Washington, D.C., 20 April.
Press Briefing with G-24 Ministers
PRESS BRIEFING - Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development, Washington, D.C., 19 April.
G7 didn't discuss exchange rates says Duisenberg
US - Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven leading industrial nations didn't discuss foreign exchange during their meeting Saturday, "apart from the usual statements," European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg said.
Volcker seen as likely to step aside at Andersen
USA - Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman sought to help embattled Arthur Andersen LLP map out a future, now looks likely to step aside, deepening the crisis within the accounting firm, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Speech by Cathy Minehan, Boston Fed Bank, 20 Mar
SPEECH - Minehan said at the Annual Meeting of The Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority that the Boston-area economy is much better positioned to weather economic downturns compared to years' past.
Allocating Bank Regulatory Powers
RESEARCH - Research paper by Charles M Kahn of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Joao AC Santos of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
IMF World Economic Outlook, April 2002
REPORT - World Economic and Financial Surveys, World Economic Outlook, Recessions and Recoveries, International Monetary Fund, 18 April.
Press Conference on the World Economic Outlook
PRESS CONFERENCE - Press Conference on the World Economic Outlook by Kenneth Rogoff, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund, 18 April.
Fed's Minehan sees e-payments change as inevitable
US - The shift in the financial payments and settlements system to electronic transactions is proceeding apace, and the U.S. central bank is embracing that change, Cathy Minehan, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said on Tuesday.
Back from a King's vault, the lone double eagle
FEATURE - It is a $20 gold piece from 1933 that was ordered destroyed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Stolen from the United States Mint, it was exported for a king after the government committed the bumble of all bumbles, was contested in an…
G7 to focus on World Bank grants, terror finance
US - The Group of Seven leading industrial nations finance ministers' meeting Friday will focus on proposals to increase World Bank grants and ongoing efforts to cut off sources of terrorism finance, a senior U.S. Treasury official said Friday.
Speech by H Kohler, Managing Director, IMF, 17 Apr
SPEECH - Kohler said in a speech titled 'Promoting Sustained Growth and International Financial Stability' that the U.S. economic recovery should provide a lift for the rest of the world, making now a good time for the world's largest economies to…
IMF Press Conference with Horst Kohler
PRESS CONFERENCE - Transcript of a Press Conference with Horst Kohler, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, National Press Club, Washington, D.C. 17 April.
The Recession that Almost Was
FEATURE - A Commentary by Kenneth Rogoff, Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, 5 April.