Keyword(s): Bernanke
10/01/08
Some members of congress and banking lobbyists are obviously blaming fair value accounting rules for exacerbating the global financial crisis. Today banks have to review assets each quarter and report losses if values decline. This seems quite reasonable… more »
09/28/08
09:08:40 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
, 380 words 
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
VOX: And Now the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen, Berkeley Professor, Sept. 28, 2008
Key Elements:
The Paulson Plan will not end the crisis quickly
Unemployment will rise
We won’t see 25% unemployment as in the 1930s, but double dig… more »
09/26/08
07:24:16 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 16 words
Categories: News, Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
Ron Paul's speech at Capitol Hill is worth to be watched...
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06:01:58 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 234 words
Categories: News, Banks/Investment Banks
Sept. 25, 2008
Key elements of the article:
An unprecedented White House emergency meeting broke up on Thursday night after failing to reach full agreement on the Bush administration’s financial rescue package
A hard core of Republicans on… more »
09/24/08
08:53:15 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 91 words
Categories: News, Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
CNBC: H. Paulson and B. Bernanke testify to the House Financial Services Committee, Sept. 24
FT: Bail-out fears hit money markets
, Sept. 24
"Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, argued against suggestions that the scheme would pay too much for… more »
FT: Bail-out faces flak from wary Congress, Sept. 23, 2008
The US plan to create a $700bn financial rescue fund encountered widespread discontent in Congress on Tuesday as Ben Bernanke suggested that the government should buy toxic mortgage assets at… more »
09/23/08
Finance Officials Face Wary Lawmakers, Sept. 23, 2008
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, recalled Mr. Bernanke telling him in a recent meeting that the growing freeze in the credit markets, spawned by troubles with shaky mortgages, mean… more »
09/21/08
WSJ: Government Bailouts: A U.S. Tradition Dating to Hamilton, Sept. 20, 2008
The bubble pops. Lenders freeze. Depositors lose faith. Panic spreads. And the government steps in because nobody else will.
Today it is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson… more »
09/19/08
06:24:48 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 189 words
Categories: News, Investment, Banks/Investment Banks
FT: US push for crisis breakthrough, Sept. 19, 2008
Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke are obviously looking for a big step in crisis solution, which also shows how bad the situation still must be. We are obviously not yet at the point where they start to… more »
09/18/08
11:43:48 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 526 words
Categories: News, Investment, Central Banks/Government, Banks/Investment Banks
Reading the Wall Street Journal article attached about the turmoils and fierce problems in the financial market it is really somehow a mystery that Main Street has not suffered more (yet). As a reason the article mentions the aggressive action of the Gov… more »
09/16/08
Fed: Fed leaves rates unchanged, Sept. 16, 2008
"The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 2 percent.
Strains in financial markets have increased significantly and labor markets have weakene… more »
05:52:14 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 314 words
Categories: News, Banks/Investment Banks
The fact that the Fed did not bail out Lehman Brothers was a surprise to the financial industry. After the Fed took on some risk in the JP Morgan Bear Stearns deal many did expect the same for Lehman. Lehman was even bigger than Bear Stearns.
However,… more »
08/22/08
MarketWatch: Bernanke sends soothing message on inflation Fed chief says price pressures likely to moderate this year and next, August 22, 2008
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sent a soothing message to global markets Friday, saying inflation wa… more »
08/05/08
FOMC Decision about interest rates, August 5, 2008
"The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 2 percent.
Economic activity expanded in the second quarter, partly reflecting growth in consumer… more »
07/16/08
Yahoo Finance: Ben Bernanke vs. the Three-Headed Monster, July 15, 2008
"The chairman sees "significant downside risks to the outlook for growth" -- a downgrade from the Fed's June statement -- while at the same time conceded "upside risks to the infl… more »
ChairmanBen S. Bernanke, Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, July 15, 2008
"In conjunction with the June FOMC meeting, Board members and Reserve Bank presidents… more »
06/22/08
VOX: Calvo on commodities, June 21, 2008
Prof. Paul Krugman's critique in the New York Times:
"Guillermo Calvo is one of my favorite economists. But — you know there had to be a but — I just don’t buy his latest missive. Still, it’s important tha… more »
06/15/08
02:07:19 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 100 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
NYT: Two Bubbles, Two Paths by Alan S. Blinder, June 15, 2008
Source: NYT
"LATELY more and more people have been questioning the received wisdom about what a central bank should do when confronted by an asset price bubble. That piece of wisdom,… more »
06/10/08
FT: Fed’s Bernanke warns of inflation risk, June 10, 2009
"Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, believes that the danger of a “substantial downturn” in the US economy has abated over the past month, but that inflation risks are increasing.
In a… more »
05/07/08
06:45:04 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 117 words
Categories: Market research, News, Market characteristics
Source: Federal Reserve Board
Speech of Chairman Ben S. Bernanke at the Columbia Business School's 32nd Annual Dinner, New York, New York, May 5, 2008
"...But some areas that had low rates in 2004 experienced high rates three years later. Figur… more »
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