Topic: U.S. Federal Reserve
Discussion is swirling around the Fed's new quantitative easing program, QE2.. The wisest comment I have heard up to this point about the QE2 exercise is the quote attributed to the economist Allan Meltzer at a recent celebration on Jekyll Island, Georgia ...
The United States economy is currently in a recession which has seen a lot of companies lay off workers, a fall in the capital markets, foreclosures, and collapse of some major financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns. While the ...
The traditional explanation for the cause of the Great Depression has been that unregulated, excessive speculation in the stock market led to a series of bank failures that, in turn, caused substantial numbers of individuals and families to lose a lifetime of ...
" Even as the market convulsed on Black Thursday, October 24, 1929 and on Black Tuesday, October 29 - the New York Times wrote: The bull market - especially in issues of public utilities - was fueled by "mergers, new groupings, combinations ...
It seems there is a direct connection between government intervention and the general population losing wealth and assets. According to amatecon.com , "At the time of the Great Depression , government intervention in the economy was higher than it had ever been ...
That seems to be the argument in a Washington Post column by David M. Smirk. Smirk is right that real estate is still over-valued, but it is hard to understand how a decline in real estate prices will boost the economy. Unfortunately, ...
Sluggish spending by businesses and consumers is causing factories to cool their production after they helped lift the economy out of recession.. That combination led to the first decline in output at the nation's mines, factories and utilities since the recession ended ...
There are five reason why the Fed will not raise interest rates in the current financial crisis. Banks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Sweden had to be bailed out. If the Fed decided to raise interest rates then ...
The global financial crisis that we are all facing may be signaling the biblical prophecy of the beginning of the decline of the American empire, which has been the pioneering bedrock of modern entrepreneurs dream. Sub prime mortgages have been hit severely ...
Economic stability is a perfect?scenario for sustainable growth without?inflation, deflation, recession?or financial crises. In the United States measuring economic stability the?Index of Consumer Sentiment (June of 2005 record 96.0. The Federal Reserve has harder time combating deflation than inflation,?requiring lowering interest rates ...