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Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen: The Fed Must Be Independent
Ben S. Bernanke was chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014, appointed by President George W. Bush. Janet L. Yellen ...
Why Trump is looking for 'fraud' in US Fed office renovation
President Donald Trump is intensifying scrutiny of the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation suggesting ...
Explainer-Why Trump's Push for a 1% Fed Policy Rate Could Spell Trouble for US Economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump says the Federal Reserve should set its benchmark interest rate at 1% to ...
The US economy is in a good place, but the Federal Reserve is not
The U.S. economy is mostly in good shape but that isn’t saving Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell from a spell of angst.
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Jerome Powell takes stand for Fed independence against ‘short-term ...
Jerome Powell hailed the independence of the Fed and central banks, a signature of the financial system established more than a 100 years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.
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Federal Reserve Can Fight Recession With Lessons from Its Past
In the 1930s and 1970s, the Fed lost its way, and the economy went off the rails. Those experiences demonstrated that without an effective central bank, the US economy suffers, sometimes ...