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Philly, Cleveland Fed presidents net inflation-busting pay rises
Federal Reserve's Annual Report shows ten out of 12 regional Fed presidents earned above-inflation salary increases
Fed extends streak, keeping state bank oversight
US Senate amends Dodd bill, allowing Fed to keep supervision of state banks, vote hailed by Kansas Fed chief Thomas Hoenig
Bernanke: happiness is relative
Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke sets out his view on the economics of happiness and the Easterlin paradox
Bernanke on the success of stress testing program
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says stress testing helped return credibility to banking sector
Plosser, not Bernanke, the biggest market mover
Philadelphia Fed president Charles Plosser had the largest impact on treasury yields with his speeches last year according to leading consultancy
Bernanke: Fed needed more tools to confront crisis
Federal Reserve’s Bernanke expresses distaste at decisions made during the crisis to a Dallas crowd
Hoenig calls for Fed to lean against the wind
Kansas City Fed president challenges fundamental tenet of Greenspan-era central bank
Goodfriend: interest on reserves best exit policy
Marvin Goodfriend offers Congress advice on how to exit from the Fed’s accommodative stance without disrupting markets
Central banks should oversee systemic risk
CentralBanking.com poll shows majority of respondents think central banks together with government bodies should be responsible for monitoring systemic risk
Bernanke: too-big-to-fail problem “unconscionable”
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke calls for a revision of regulation on firms, which are “too big to fail”
Fed must keep regulatory oversight: Bernanke
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, criticises plans to strip the Fed of its regulatory powers
Fed chiefs unite in bid to keep wider bank supervision
Current Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and former head Paul Volcker say taking all but the biggest banks away from the central bank would be a mistake
Fed is investigating Goldman, hedge funds: Bernanke
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says the central bank is looking into cross-currency swaps carried out by Goldman Sachs alleged to have helped Greece hide the extent of its debt
Discount hike was to discourage reliance on Fed: Bernanke
Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke reiterates the central bank’s stance that its recent discount rate hike was in no way a policy tightening, flags term deposit facility
Fed presidents play down discount hike
Regional Fed presidents William Dudley, Dennis Lockhart and Janet Yellen deny that rise in discount rate equates to the end of accommodative policy
Fed’s discount rate hike jolts markets
Federal Reserve firms exit strategy by lifting the rate at which it lends to banks by a quarter percentage point, markets teeter
The fight for the Fed
Malan Rietveld looks back at Ben Bernanke’s bruising confirmation hearings
Has Bernanke broken his promise to Friedman?
The monetary policies of the Federal Reserve have helped to avoid a second Great Depression, but Bernanke’s emphasis on credit has been misguided, says Tim Congdon
Fed mulling switch to new policy rate
Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke says officials mooting the use of interest on reserves as benchmark target
Fed’s independence in public’s interest: Bernanke
Ben Bernake says the Federal Reserve will work with Congress to ensure maximum transparency
Senate backs Bernanke for second term
Lawmakers vote 70 to 30 in favour
Fed’s Dudley shoots down “audit” bill
William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, dismisses calls for greater scrutiny as threat to independence in policymaking
Fed retort: nothing to hide on AIG
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, invites the government to audit the central bank’s dealings with AIG; NY Fed submits 250,000 pages of evidence to Congress
Bernanke appeals to keep Fed’s oversight powers
Federal Reserve chairman makes the case for the central bank to retain banking supervision in letter to lawmakers; Volcker supports systemic role