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The Fed’s Newfound Aggressiveness Is Concerning
When it comes to fighting inflation, Esther George is accustomed to being a hawk among doves. Now, in a strange turnabout, she is a dove among ...
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Wonking Out: Why Monetary Policy Has Gotten So Hard
Today’s newsletter isn’t about what the Federal Reserve or its counterpart the European Central Bank should be doing. I have views, of course ...
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Business
Bear Market Sends Grim Signal of Economic Fears
Three weeks ago, Wall Street narrowly escaped a bear market, with stocks rebounding at the last minute from a brutal drop that had brought the S ...
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World
E. Gerald Corrigan, Who Helped Ease ’87 Stock Crash, Dies at 80
E. Gerald Corrigan, who as the aggressive president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank helped cushion Wall Street’s crash in the late 1980s ...
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Inflation Hits Fastest Pace Since 1981, at 8.5% Through March
Inflation hit 8.5 percent in the United States last month, the fastest 12-month pace since 1981, as a surge in gasoline prices tied to Russia’s ...
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World
Wonking Out: What to Expect When You’re Expecting Inflation
Good news on inflation has been hard to come by lately. But this week we got two encouraging reports from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ...
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Business
Fed nominees commit to not taking part in finance’s revolving door.
Three of President Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve committed to lawmakers that, if confirmed to their posts, they would not work in ...
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World
How the Fed Is and Isn’t ‘the Supreme Court of Finance’
The Federal Reserve is sometimes called “the Supreme Court of finance.” That’s a stretch, of course, but the analogy does make you think about ...
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Business
Fed Officials Make It Clear: This Time Is Different
Federal Reserve officials are preparing to pull back their economic help as inflation remains stubbornly high and the labor market swiftly heals ...
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Business
Biden Will Nominate Three New Fed Officials
President Biden plans to nominate three new Federal Reserve officials as he seeks to remake the central bank at a critical economic moment ...
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