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Is Criticism of the Bernanke Fed Justified?
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Mark Thoma submits: Ben Bernanke’s term as Chairman of the Federal reserve ends in January. He has been nominated by the president for reappointment, but reappointment must be approved by the Senate. The first step in the approval process came last week when the Senate Banking Committee voted 16-7 to send his ...1 day ago -
Thoma Discusses Bernanke Second Term, Feds Regulation: Video
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Dec. 17 -- Mark Thoma, a professor at the University of Oregon, talks with Bloombergs Mark Crumpton about the outlook for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and the Feds role as a banking regulator.5 days ago -
Long Term Budget Problems? Obama Inherited Them
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Mark Thoma submits: What is the cause of large and continuing budget deficits? The Bush tax cuts, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economic downturn "explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years." Complete Story »5 days ago -
FOMC: What the Fed Said Today
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Mark Thoma submits: The Feds assessment of the economy is slightly more upbeat as compared to the press release after its last FOMC meeting, but economic conditions are still bad, and theres no signal that the course of policy will change anytime soon. The target interest rate will remain near zero for the ...6 days ago -
PPI Up 1.8% - Should the Fed Be Worried About Inflation?
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Mark Thoma submits: The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that wholesale prices rose 1.8 percent in November. That is likely to bring the inflation hawks out in full force — expect to hear calls for the Fed to begin raising rates sooner rather than later — but it’s too soon to start thinking ...1 week ago -
To Big to Initiate an Anti-Trust Suit Against?
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Mark Thoma submits: Ive been somewhat encouraged by this administrations attention to anti-trust issues, but so far theres been more talk than action. I dont think this issue received enough attention in the previous administration -- if anything the Bush administration promoted the interests of large, powerful ...1 week ago -
The Dangers Ahead for Obama’s Jobs Program
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President Obama announced his $150 billion job creation initiative on Tuesday, which includes everything from new spending for highway and bridge construction, to small business tax cuts , to retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. It’s the sort of news that probably would have gotten ...1 week ago -
Global Growth Forecasts - Seeing is Believing?
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I reckon it must be quite tough at the moment to be an analyst or a money mover/manager. This is not only because of difficult markets and a very opaque economic outlook, but more so because as we move into years end we are flooded by a veritable tsunami of sell and buy side research on the big themes of 2009 and ...2 weeks ago -
Be Careful What You Wish for from the Fed
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Mark Thoma submits: Rolfe Winkler says suggestions that the current financial crisis was not as bad as the Great Depression are wrong and he offers this chart as evidence: [click to enlarge] Complete Story »2 weeks ago
