That has a benefit over traditional fiscal injections, because households don’t have to fear future tax increases to pay for the current spending. Bernanke, in a blog post in his current role at the B

In an interview with MarketWatch on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting in Washington, he said he wants the Federal Reserve to raise rates at a measured pace. Doing so wo

by Mon, 04/18/2016 - 14:20 0 SHARES Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted in an interview with Sara Eisen that quantitative easing did what it was supposed to do, which was to inflate stock prices and drive multiple expansion. He was confused as to why things such as corporate…

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How The ECB Trapped Itself In A "Catch 22" by Thu, 04/07/2016 - 13:43 0 SHARES With speculation of helicopter money in Europe spreading like wildfire , here is a simple summary of how the ECB may have no choice but to go with the "final solution" and engage the "chopper" for one simple reason: by…

Bernanke's Former Advisor: "People Would Be Stunned To Know The Extent To Which The Fed Is Privately Owned" by Tue, 04/12/2016 - 18:23 0 SHARES With every passing day, the Fed is slowly but surely losing the game. Only it is not just former (and in some cases current ) Fed presidents admitting…

Pörssiuutiset IMF varoittaa asuntovelkaisen ilosta – "Voivat johtaa kupliin" IMF varoittaa asuntovelkaisen ilosta – "Voivat johtaa kupliin" (KUVA: © Yves Herman / Reuters ) Julkaistu: 11.4.2016 9:35 11.4.2016 9:35 Kansainvälisen valuuttarahaston mukaan löysä rahapolitiikka voi johtaa kupliin…

America's four living Federal Reserve chairs say the U.S. is not in a bubble, but that doesn't mean everything is fine. Current Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and former chairs Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker all agree that a bubble isn't a concern. They were interviewed together…

Why does Wall Street keep recovering after recessions but the economy seemingly never does? The reason, as I document in my book, "The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does" is that Washington and the Federal Reserve together have created a closed loop economy where…

(Reuters) - Any legislative changes to the Federal Reserve should not be based on an “emotional” response to the financial crisis or recession and, if necessary, they should be limited to making the U.S. central bank more effective, a top Fed official said on Thursday. In a speech that pushed back…

When we convened in Jackson Hole in August 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) target for the federal funds rate was 5-1/4 percent. Sixteen months later, with the financial crisis in full swing, the FOMC had lowered the target for the federal funds rate to nearly zero, thereby entering…

I can only say: I'm sorry, America. As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed's first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a tool for helping Main Street. But I've…

The rise of neoliberalism across the globe for decades, and its continued resilience since the 2007-2008 financial crisis in particular, forces us to ask why there has not been a more successful resistance against it. We might start with the changing structure of the working class, especially in the…

Antti Tanskanen asettui Helsingin Sanomien eilisessä Vieraskynä-kirjoituksessaan tukemaan Suomen eroamista euroalueesta. Tanskanen on toiminut kansantaloustieteen professorina ja OP-Pohjola-ryhmän pääjohtajana. Tanskanen pitää Suomen eurojäsenyyttä vahingollisena sekä itsemääräämisoikeuden…

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“We feel we need a Capital Market Union, Energy Union, Economic and Monetary Union but we also think we need security union”, stressed Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday (23 March), after terrorist attacks killed 31 and left over 200 injured on Tuesday (22 March) in Brussels. In a…

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by Fri, 03/25/2016 - 12:22 0 SHARES Submitted by Lauren McCauley via TheAntiMedia.org, Just one day after the coordinated attacks in Brussels, the resounding cry from governments, media, and national security experts is that we need less freedoms and more security. As they did in the wake of the…

FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board. DONALD TRUMP: New building. Yes this is very nice. Good luck with it. RYAN: Thank you… We’ve heard you’re going to be announcing your foreign policy…

show chapters Fed's Bullard says rate hike is 'not far off' 11:09 AM ET Thu, 24 March 2016 | 00:35 Another U.S. interest rate hike "may not be far off" after the Federal Reserve stood pat last week and made only minor downgrades to economic forecasts, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on…

Arvoisa lukija, tiedätkö, missä on syy vasemmiston alennustilaan? Kaikkialla muualla paitsi vasemmistopuolueissa itsessään. Ennen kaikkea syy on tyhmissä äänestäjissä. Tämä viisaus käy ilmi Kansan Uutisissa julkaistusta valtiotieteilijä Mika Ojakankaan pitkästä haastattelusta. Ojakangas luettelee…

Germany Greece Austerity Debt German elites are willing to let the euro crash to guarantee their own political survival. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference in Berlin last month. Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Bastille Day is the perfect day to…

Naks. Hyvää huomenta Radio Suomipöpin Aamupuurosta. Tänään me Joo-Joo, Peräsmies ja Hysteerinen Nainen höpisemme eilisistä tv-ohjelmista ja mainostamme, missä saman mediakonsernin tv-sarjassa esiinnymme illalla. Kannattaa muuten katsoa Nelosen tämän illan Haluatko Miljonääri-Jussiksi? Siellä on…

Indonesian tekemä sopimus näyttää, mitä Trump hakee tullikirjeillään Tullikirjeen saaneista maista Indonesia on ensimmäinen maa, joka teki sopimuksen Yhdysvaltojen kanssa. Taloussanomat3:22 Uutisvuoksi: Mia sai Imatran kaupungilta hämmentävän laskun – näin kaupunki perustelee Imatralainen Mia…

The dollar has taken a surprisingly big stumble in recent weeks, prompting traders to ask: What’s really driving the selloff? The answer some are coming up with smacks of conspiracy theory. Rumors are flourishing that global policy makers made a secret deal at the G-20 meeting in Shanghai late last…

It's hidden there in plain sight, even if it hasn't happened since the election of 1825: The people will not pick the next president, Congress will. We wrote about this last week on Medium , and now the story is beginning to flesh out. Politico reports that leading conservatives will meet on…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said on Friday that low neutral interest rates are a warning sign of possible changes in the U.S. economy that the central bank does not fully understand. “I see this as more of a warning, a red flag that there’s something…

Thanks to record low interest rates in the U.S. (although not yet negative), the Treasury spent just $223 billion (6 percent) of Federal revenue to service its publicly-traded debt during 2015. However, if Treasury yields went back to where they were prior to the Great Recession of 2008, that figure…

Fed Chair Janet Yellen, in a speech at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September, acknowledged ‘significant uncertainty’ about her prediction that inflation would rise. Photo: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg News Federal Reserve officials this week are expected to raise interest rates for the first…

Excerpted from Thomas Frank's new book, "Listen, Liberal" Everyone remembers the years of the Bill Clinton presidency as good times. The economy was booming, the stock market was ascending, and the mood was infectious. You felt good about it even if you didn’t own a single share. And yet: What did…

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That headline up there, I know it’s a pretty damn bold statement. But there are some extremely large developments going down this week, that just cannot be glossed over. First: Ex-Clinton Staffer Who Setup Email Servers Granted Immunity by Department of Justice First and probably biggest is that…

Luetuimmat 1 Trumpin entinen YK-lähettiläs sohaisi mehiläis­pesään arvostellessaan Suomen terveyden­huoltoa: ”Tiedätkö edes missä Suomi on?” 22.3.2019 2 Keskellä suomalaista metsää on pieni mökki, josta aukeaa näkymä ihmis­kunnan kohtaloon – Tässä on hiili­nielu, mutta onko siitä planeetan…

watch now VIDEO1:4701:47 JPMorgan's Dimon buys 500K shares of firm Fast Money Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co, recently bought 500,000 shares of the company's stock worth more than $25 million, according to a person familiar with the matter. CNBC confirmed the purchase…

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, facing right, greets Argentina's Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay, second from right, on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Shanghai in late February. Photo: rolex dela pena/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Mario Draghi already has saved the eurozone…

To hear GOP insiders tell it , Doomsday is here. If Donald Trump scores huge on tonight and seizes control of the nomination in the Super Tuesday primaries, it will mark the beginning of the end of the Republican Party, and perhaps the presidency. But Trump isn’t the beginning of the end. George W.…

Chris Hedges is on vacation and will return to writing his weekly Truthdig column on Sept. 5. While Hedges is on break, we will be republishing some of his Truthdig columns. This one was originally published on March 2. College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage…

How Wall Street Is Preparing For "President Trump" by Wed, 03/02/2016 - 19:25 0 SHARES While the market has had its share of bogeymen to worry about so far in 2016, mostly along the lines of the " Four Cs ", namely China, Crude, Credit and Currencies, it has so far largely ignored one letter: the…

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Striking Admission By Former Bank Of England Head: The European Depression Was A "Deliberate" Act by Wed, 03/02/2016 - 22:00 0 SHARES Once again we find that it is only after they leave their official posts that central bankers finally tell the truth. Last night, it was Alan Greenspan who blasted…