Federal Reserve System
Securitisation not to blame for the crisis: Fed’s Tarullo
Federal Reserve’s Daniel Tarullo also reiterates calls for an oversight council
Fed’s Lacker: economics key for financial education
Richmond Federal Reserve’s Jeffrey Lacker says financial education programs should include economics
Tips are good inflation hedge
Boston Federal Reserve says Tips hedge well against inflation risk
Traders’ inventories affect market liquidity
Philadelphia Federal Reserve investigates how holdings of mortgages will affect traders’ propensity to buy and sell further
Bernanke calls for extended supervisory reach
Ben Bernanke’s five-point plan for regulatory reform includes call to share accountability for systemic risk with other regulators
Minneapolis Fed names macroeconomist as president
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis appoints academic Narayana Kocherlakota as its new president
Fed will be ready for exit: Kohn
Donald Kohn, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank will be fully prepared to tighten expansionary policy
Fed outlines tougher cards regime
Federal Reserve proposes changes to Regulation Z to protect consumers
Fed will fail to land systemic risk role, Zoellick predicts
World Bank’s Robert Zoellick says Fed will not get systemic risk role, moots Treasury. Sees renminbi, euro strengthen reserve status
Volcker: narrower role would make Fed too detached
Paul Volcker says removing supervision from Fed’s ambit would risk turning central bank into “academic seminar”
Fed audit would damage economy: counsel Alvarez
Federal Reserve lawyer defends central bank against lawmakers’ attempts to scrutinise its monetary operations
Fed decision depresses markets despite positive outlook
Federal Open Market Committee sees improvement in economy, but its decision to slow purchases of mortgage-related debt hits confidence and divides analysts
Subprimes didn’t perform worse than prime loans: Philadelphia Fed
Philadelphia Fed’s loans data analysis yields unexpected results
Borders affect prices
Boston Federal Reserve looks at the role of international borders in segmenting markets
Influential senator wants US supraregulator - report
Senate Banking Committee’s Chris Dodd wants four American supervisors to merge into one, says report
Not everyone can make it to the top
Boston Federal Reserve finds American families’ economic mobility is decreasing
Fed to intervene on pay, UK minister dismisses bankers’ “talent”
Federal Reserve to have authority on compensation, Wall Street Journal reports as British minister says bankers undeserving of high rewards. Moves part of global outcry over bankers’ bonuses
Fed names new regional chairs
Washington-based board announces heads of twelve Federal Reserve banks for 2010
No, the markets are not in state of hysteria about US inflation
Brendan Brown, the chief economist at Mitsubishi UFJ, asks if fears of prices exploding in the US are as irrational as some suggest
Fed governor pans accounting developments
Federal Reserve’s Elizabeth Duke says both FASB’s and IASB’s new approaches raise “number of concerns”
Beige Book cautiously positive
Federal Reserve’s Beige Book suggests economic activity continued to stabilise
US to end money-market guarantees this month
Treasury secretary Tim Geithner notes financial sector starting to wean itself of state support
Estate agents do serve social role
Boston Federal Reserve looks at the conflict of interest between a seller of a house and a real-estate agent
Greenspan blames “human nature” for crunch
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan sceptical that another crisis can be avoided until humans learn to accept cyclical nature of capitalism