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The End of Convergence?

October 3, 2013, Kemal Derviş

Good Communication Critical When Federal Reserve Decides to Taper Stimulus

September 19, 2013, Fred Dews

Donald Kohn: How Can We Preserve Financial Stability?

September 19, 2013, Fred Dews

Larry Summers' Fall

September 16, 2013, Sarah A. Binder

The Next Fed Chairman’s Global Clout

September 16, 2013, Eswar Prasad

Borrowing To Invest Easily Trumps Borrowing To Spend

August 20, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

Beyond the Horse Race to Lead the Fed

August 5, 2013, Sarah A. Binder

Barry Bosworth: Federal Reserve Announcement on Continuing Bond-Buying Program is "No News"

July 31, 2013, Fred Dews

Financial Market Confusion and Pessimism Do Not Mean The Fed Is Wrong on Monetary Policy

June 19, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott

Fed Policy, Stock Markets and Japan

June 13, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott

Quantitative Easing Withdrawal: How Bad Will it Hurt?

June 12, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott

Time to Start Experimenting with Macroprudential Regulatory Policy

June 4, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott

The Fed's Trying To Get the Party Started, So Why All the Criticism?

March 18, 2013, George L. Perry

Would Congress Care if the Federal Reserve Lost Money? A Lesson from History

February 26, 2013, Sarah A. Binder

[While quantitative easing by the Bank of Japan] may have an effect on the exchange rate, it is not the same as outright currency intervention. Moreover, the U.S. would be hard pressed to criticize Japan as the [Federal Reserve] has also resorted to quantitative easing to avoid deflationary pressures.

January 17, 2013, Mireya Solís, Reuters

Comments on “The Most Dangerous Idea in Federal Reserve History: Monetary Policy Doesn’t Matter”

January 5, 2013, Donald Kohn

Federal Reserve Independence in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis: Should We Be Worried?

January 4, 2013, Donald Kohn

Monetary Policy in 2012: Further Disappointments in Growth; Further Innovations in Monetary Policy

December 20, 2012, Donald Kohn

How Long Will it Take to Get to 6.5 Percent Unemployment?

December 14, 2012, Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney, The Hamilton Project

History will have judged Ben Bernanke to have been an outstanding chairman who did what he had to do under extremely difficult circumstances.

October 31, 2012, Donald Kohn, Bloomberg

Unconventional Times, Unconventional Measures: A Conversation with Federal Reserve Board Governor Jeremy Stein

October 11, 2012

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Consensus on Monetary Policy at the Federal Reserve

September 13, 2012, Sarah A. Binder

Credible Commitments and the Federal Reserve

September 4, 2012, Sarah A. Binder

The Fed has the power to stimulate the economy. Perhaps that power is somewhat limited, but it can certainly do more than it is currently doing.

August 1, 2012, Justin Wolfers , Politico

My sense is that Republicans will be highly critical of the Fed if it pursues additional stimulus in any form. Venturing into mortgage markets beyond buying mortgage-backed securities seems to be a step too far into fiscal policy for Fed critics.

July 26, 2012, Sarah A. Binder, Bloomberg Businessweek