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The Fed projects GDP to decline in 2009
"as a whole", and unemployment to "rise significantly into
2010". The Fed also expects disinflationary pressures to continue into 2010. From the FOMC Minutes : In the forecast prepared for the meeting, the staff ...
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If you missed John Mauldin’s weekend piece (
2008: Annus Horribilis, RIP ), have a look at
these estimates for earnings in 2008. They started at $92 (early ‘07) and came down to $48: > Not exactly confidence inspiring when it ...
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Federal Reserve Latest Blog Posts (more)
Recession: In For a Long Haul?
6 hours ago at Winds of Change.NET
Fed considers inflation target
7 hours ago at FT Alphaville
The Credit Crunch That Isn’t
12 hours ago at Daily Markets
US FOMC Minutes Highlights: Significant Contraction In Economic Activity
12 hours ago at Daily Markets
Not That Word
13 hours ago at Bear Mountain Bull
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Fresh out of graduate school, Kenneth Rogoff went
to work at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington,
D.C. Within months, he had overturned conventional wisdom about the forecasting power of exchange rate models. "We find," he wrote with Richard ...
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The following frequently asked questions (FAQs) provide further
information about the program to purchase agency mortgage-backed securities
(agency MBS) that was announced by the Federal Reserve on November 25, 2008. This agency MBS program will be ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has
embarked on a campaign of unsupervised industrial policy to
end the country's financial crisis, a move that could undermine its independence, a former top U.S. official said on Saturday. John Taylor, ...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve has
embarked on a campaign of unsupervised industrial policy to
end the country's financial crisis, a move that could undermine its independence, a former top U.S. official said on Saturday. John Taylor, ...
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The New York Times Sunday Magazine has a
long piece by Joe Nocera on value at risk
models , which tries to assess how much they can be held accountable for risk management failures on Wall Street. The piece so badly misses the basics about VaR that ...
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MediaMan
posted 3 days ago from
marketnewslive.blogspot.com
A look at the stocks, stories aand data
that could have the biggest impact in the coming
week.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve on
Tuesday moved forward aggressively with an effort to drive
down mortgage costs, setting a goal of buying $500 billion in mortgage-backed securities by mid-2009. The central bank said it would start ...
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AIG, the insurer bailed out by the US
government, is prepared to ask the Federal Reserve to
relax rules on its $60bn-plus disposals programme to allow bidders to use a greater proportion of shares to pay for its assets. People close to the ...
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday moved forward
aggressively with an effort to drive down mortgage costs,
setting a goal of buying $500 billion in mortgage-backed securities by mid-2009. The central bank said it would start buying the securities ...
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Dwight Cass at BreakingViews makes some astute and
troubling observations about the GMAC rescue, which spurred a
market rally in the face of truly awful economic releases (one might take the cynical view that, given how thin trading is this week ...
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The Federal Reserve will print money to buy
$500 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities by June, specifically
MBS issued by Fannie, Freddie and their sister Ginnie Mae. And guess who the Fed has hired to manage the purchases? PIMCO, ...
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In our latest comment in The Institutional Risk
Analyst , we comment on the Fed’s approval of
GMAC’s application to be a bank holding company: “Following that line of thinking, the Fed’s 4-1 approval of the GMAC application to become ...
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The Federal Reserve announced the asset managers who
will guide the Fed’s purchase of $500 billion of
MBS. The purchases will begin early in January and will conclude by the end of June. Here is a link to the FAQ on the topic at the Fed ...
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The Washington Post reports on one of the
bright spots to the year-long financial crisis. As the
Financial Bailouts Grow, So Does the Fed Real estate analysts have predicted that federal bailouts could be a boon for Washington commercial space, as ...
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Some lessons from the Nixon days.
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Two days after a crucial deadline passed, GMAC,
the financing arm of General Motors, remained silent Sunday
over whether bondholders had approved a plan that would help provide GMAC with federal bailout money. GMAC bondholders had a midnight ...
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From the NY Times: A Wish List for
Commercial Real Estate Commercial real estate groups have been
meeting with members of Congress, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as well as Mr. Obama’s transition team, ...
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Over the years, I have frequently disagreed with
Tyler Cowen. I always find his subject matter intriguing,
but I invariably seem to end up on the opposite side of the trade from him, most notably on the subject of Predatory Borrowing . Today, ...
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- FT.com / Markets - Citadel and CME win CDS clearing consent
- Disingenuous New York Times Story on Global Imbalances
- Hyperinflation: A Survival Guide
- Merry Christmas, here is your gift
- Hedging the Message
- Fed’s Kohn Urges Regulators to Encourage More Lending (Update1)
- Fed’s Kroszner Urges Banks to Increase Capital-Reserve Buffers
- Uh oh, automakers are not the Fed’s problem
- 4 Week T-Bill = 0.000%
- Official: The FED Is Clueless
- Fed Ponders Issuing Debt to Finance Its Mushrooming Balance Sheet
- Fed Weighs Debt Sales of Its Own
- Fed To Issue F-Bills
- Real Time Economics : What Could the Fed Do?
- Is the Fed Taking the First Steps to Selective Default and Devaluation?
- Tobin's Q Ratio Says Equity Bottom Much, Much Lower
- The Zero Yield Economy
- Fed Bonds
- Fed: Household Percent Equity Cliff Diving
- The Credit Rating on a Benevolent Counterfeiters Debt - Infinity A?
Fed Fears Long Recession