United States
Fed declares victory on deflation risks
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday signalled that it no longer believes a serious threat of deflation exists.
Treasury's Allison: financial system more stable
There are tentative signs that the financial system is beginning to stabilise and that the US Treasury's efforts have made an important contribution to this, said Herbert Allison Jr, the assistant secretary for financial stability at the US Treasury.
FSA's Turner pushes for tax on size
Adair Turner, the chief executive of the Financial Services Authority, has joined the growing chorus of calls for limits on banks' size.
Fed plans changes to repo markets - report
The Federal Reserve is considering a major overhaul to repo markets, where banks globally raise overnight dollar loans, reports say.
Rejigging the OTC derivatives market
Patricia White, an associate director at the division of research and statistics at the Federal Reserve, has testified on how the central bank believes the derivatives market should be regulated.
Central banks right for stability role
One regulatory organisation in each country should be responsible for overseeing the stability of the overall financial system and that organisation should be the central bank, new research argues.
Liquidity facilities and interbank lending
This paper by economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco finds that the liquidity facilities introduced by central banks during the current crisis helped lower the liquidity premium in term interbank rates.
US consents to $100 billion IMF boost
The US Congress on Thursday finally agreed to a $100 billion credit line to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), pledged by President Barack Obama after the G20 meeting in London.
Bernanke: bottom-up actions key for recovery
Economic recovery and development is a bottom-up as well as top-down process, said Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
Geithner defends Fed from Congressional attack
Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary and a former head of the New York Federal Reserve, backed the Federal Reserve as the best institution to monitor systemic risk after lawmakers queried the central bank's ability to do so.
Don't hike rates too early, Fed's Duke warns
Elizabeth Duke, a governor of the Federal Reserve, has noted that previous downturns have been deepened or prolonged by the premature withdrawal of monetary or fiscal stimulus.
Obama proposals call for Fed governance review
Sweeping proposals for reforms to financial regulation released by the White House on Wednesday have called for a comprehensive review of the governance and structure of the Federal Reserve.
IMF upgrades US outlook
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that the United States economy will grow next year.
US output gap may be smaller than thought
That core inflation has fallen relatively little indicates that there is less slack in the American economy, and thus a smaller output gap, than standard estimates predict, research published by the San Francisco Federal Reserve posits.
Obama wants Fed to monitor systemic risk - report
The US administration will reveal that it wants the Federal Reserve to regulate America's largest and most interconnected financial firms later this week, reports say.
Risk deficiencies common to all
The financial crisis and ensuing recession have revealed deficiencies in risk management in both systemically-important financial firms and community banks, Daniel Tarullo, a governor at the Federal Reserve, has said.
Ex-Fed's Volcker backs global currency
Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, on Thursday argued that the "ultimate logic" of an international financial system was a world currency, but acknowledged that there were no credible alternatives to the dollar for "many tomorrows".
Beige Book flags improved expectations
The latest edition of the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, compiled from evidence gathered by the 12 regional Feds, notes that contacts from across the United States had said their expectations for the economy had improved.
Fed emails point to BoA pressure on Merrill deal
Emails sent by Federal Reserve officials and subpoenaed by government investigators appear to back claims that Ben Bernanke pressurised Bank of America to go ahead with its takeover of investment bank Merrill Lynch after the bank attempted to back out of…
Fed's supervision head to step down
Roger Cole, the director of the Federal Reserve's division of banking supervision, and regulation is to retire after 30 years at the central bank.
Krugman hints at inflation remedy to fix crisis
Reducing the real value of debt burdens by stoking inflation is possibly the best bet to spur a global economic recovery, Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate, said on Tuesday.
Generalised Taylor rule holds
The generalised Taylor principle is alive and well, new research from the Kansas City Federal Reserve posits.
Fed's Hoenig: regulatory reform can wait
The re-establishment and proper enforcement of rules that have proven effective over time will do more to enhance regulation than a major revamp of the regulatory code, said Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve.
Krugman: there is a liquidity trap, we're in it
In the first of a three-night stint at the London School of Economics, Paul Krugman sounded the death knell for economists' faith in monetary policy as a means of avoiding depressions.