...0.375 percent from a range of zero to 0.25 percent. “The rationale for expecting action next week is pretty straightforward: Two weeks ago, (Federal Reserve Chair Janet) Yellen indicated that...
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Is the Financial Stability Oversight Council Enabling ‘Too Big to Fail’?
...hearing. The two voting members not present at Tuesday’s hearing were Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. The Honorable Mary Jo White, Chair, Securities and Exchange...
Read More »Leading Off: House Financial Services to Grill Cordray, Watt
...the FSOC’s agenda, operations, and structure. Eight of those nine voting members have agreed to testify. Only Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen declined the Committee’s invitation to appear. Monday Jobs...
Read More »Leading Off: House Financial Services to grill Cordray, Watt
...the FSOC’s agenda, operations, and structure. Eight of those nine voting members have agreed to testify.Only Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen declined the Committee’s invitation to appear. Monday Jobs are...
Read More »Will November’s Solid Jobs Report Push the Fed to a December Liftoff?
...at the Economic Club in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, Fed Chairman Janet Yellen noted that “we cannot yet, in my judgment, declare the labor market has reached full employment....
Read More »‘Too Big to Fail’ is in Fed’s Crosshairs
...in times of crisis to help mitigate extraordinary pressures in financial markets that would otherwise have severe adverse consequences for households, businesses, and the U.S. economy,” Fed Chairman Janet Yellen...
Read More »Senator Sherrod Brown Presses Regulators to Protect Taxpayers from Banks’ Risk-Taking
...a letter urging Fed Chairman Janet Yellen, FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, and Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry to resist the clamoring of Wall Street banks to weaken those minimum...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Thursday 11/19/2015
...Chair Janet Yellen is not the only one who disapproves of a bill that calls for more transparency from the Fed. Now the White House is threatening to veto H.R....
Read More »Fed Reform, Mortgage Access Bills Under Threat of Veto from the White House
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is not the only one who disapproves of a bill that calls for more transparency from the Fed. Now the White House is threatening to...
Read More »DS News Webcast: Wednesday 11/18/2015
Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen on Tuesday wrote a letter to newly-appointed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi urging Congress to reject a proposed...
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