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Nobel Prizewinner not right for Fed: key Republican senator
Senate Banking Committee ranking member Richard Shelby sets out reasons underpinning party’s repeated rejection of Nobel Prizewinner Peter Diamond for Fed board seat
Fed’s Yellen: managing market expectations key to QE
Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen stresses importance of market expectations to success of asset purchase programme
Commercial real-estate levelling off: Fed director
Federal Reserve’s director of banking supervision and regulation Patrick Parkinson strikes cautiously optimistic note on health of commercial real estate sector
QE2 will create jobs, Yellen tells critics
Federal Reserve vice-chair Janet Yellen says further quantitative easing will address weak labour demand and generate roughly 700,000 jobs
Fed’s Yellen: QE2 could help emerging markets
Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen makes case for currency appreciation in emerging markets; remarks come on the heels of emerging market criticism of QE2
Central banks should regulate financial system: CentralBanking.com poll
CentralBanking.com poll shows more than 58% of readers think central banks should regulate banks in addition to insurance firms, hedge funds, and brokers
G30 unveils macroprudential manual
Group of Thirty recommends dual approach to macroprudential policy; says combination of fixed and flexible tools will equip supervisors to address systemic risks
Fed’s Yellen: macroprudential policy must balance rules and discretion
Federal Reserve vice chair Janet Yellen says macroprudential supervisors should be guided by fixed rules, but have discretionary capacity to surprise firms
Senate confirms two out of three Fed directors
Last-minute deal seats Yellen and Raskin, Diamond turned down
Rajan, Krugman clash over Fed policy
Ex-IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman lock horns over Federal Reserve’s loose monetary stance
Top US economic adviser Christina Romer quits
Chair of US President’s Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer resigns, citing family reasons; thought to be interested in Janet Yellen’s post at San Francisco Fed
Fed finally set for full complement of governors
Senate Banking Committee okays Janet Yellen for Fed vice-chair; Peter Diamond and Sarah Raskin also approved for Fed board; first time six governors have served the Fed in more than four years
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
Obama picks Yellen for Fed vice-chair
US President confirms speculation by nominating San Francisco Fed chief Janet Yellen as central bank’s deputy head, economist Peter Diamond and state regulator Sarah Raskin proposed for the board
SF Fed's Yellen says low rates appropriate
San Francisco Federal Reserve president says Fed can rely on interest on reserves to keep balance sheet large
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
Yellen: Fed won’t inflate debt away
San Francisco Fed’s Janet Yellen tells LA town hall inflation will not run rampant so long as Fed retains independence
Yellen to replace Kohn as Fed vice chair?
Obama administration likely to pick arch dove to replace Kohn
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
US real-estate concern goes global
Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Guy Debelle says US commercial real estate woes may impose further crippling losses on banks
Fed should hike to 3.5% soon: FOMC’s Hoenig
Thomas Hoenig, president of the Kansas Fed, says the central bank cannot afford to wait for recovery to firm before tightening
Fed presidents focus on commercial property fears
Atlanta and San Francisco Federal Reserve chiefs echo William Dudley’s warning on commercial real estate
Shirakawa, Fed’s Yellen and FSA’s Turner join G30
Group of Thirty adds heads of Bank of Japan, San Francisco Federal Reserve and Britain’s Financial Services Authority to its roster
Fed’s Yellen guarded on recovery
The biggest threat to price stability is deflation, and there are losses still to come, Janet Yellen, the president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, warns