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How Can Fed Policy Help Main Street?
Bob Pollin: Expected new Fed chair Janet Yellen will continue Bernanke's policies of shoring up Wall Street banks with trillions, but the Fed could help Main Street with different …
Greg Palast: Rand Paul’s Zombie-nomics Versus Janet Yellen
Will Senator Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the undead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board?
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Paul Krugman | Alan Greenspan, Doing His Best to Make Things Worse
Paul Krugman: Mr. Greenspan isn't just being a bad economist, he's being a bad person, refusing to accept responsibility for his errors in and out of office. And he's …
So Who Is Carmen Segarra? A Fed Whistleblower Q&A
Segarra says she was fired after she found that Goldman lacked an adequate company-wide policy to manage conflicts of interest u2014 and after her superiors urged her to change …
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Janet Yellen: The Economist’s Economist
Paul Krugman shares his thoughts on Janet Yellen for the Federal Reserve and the recipients of the 2013 Nobel Prize for economics.
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Federal Reserve in Uncharted Territory
Global Economist, Yilmaz Akyuz, on the Crisis of Financial Crisis Management.
The Next Federal Reserve Chair will Decide the Fate of Dodd-Frank
Gerald Epstein: Larry Summers is the Chief Architect of the Financial crisis and should Not be chief Regulator of the Financial System.
Greg Palast: Potential Fed Chair Summers at Heart of Global Economic Crisis
Greg Palast has obtained a secret memo revealing Larry Summers was involved in deal that helped setup the global economic crisis.
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Summers’ Time: The Record That Should Keep Him Off the Fed
A White House aide has now floated the word that Larry Summers is being 'vetted' for nomination to head the Federal Reserve.
Reading Between the Lines: A Memo From Fed Chairman Marriner Eccles
Stephanie Kelton revisits the writings of Marriner Eccles, who was tapped by FDR to head the Federal Reserve, a position he held until 1948.