Bond Market Defies Fed

Bucking the Federal Reserve’s efforts to push interest rates lower, investors are selling off U.S. government debt, driving rates in many cases to their highest levels in more than three ...

Quantitative Easing – A Threat to the Recovery

The latest move by Ben Bernanke and his Federal Reserve is rubbing a lot of people the wrong way. Bernanke plans to inject more liquidity into US markets in the ...

Bernanke Says Limiting Fed Independence Would ‘Impair’ Economy

Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said curbing the central bank’s authority to supervise the banking system and tampering with its independence would “seriously impair” economic ...