Dan Nichols said that would be equivalent to the size of a Fed-Ex delivery truck.
Two years ago, Chairman Ben Bernanke argued at a Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
This is not to mention a Fed that has cottoned to experimentation like never before.
Chastened by a fed-up electorate, Congress is still in the warm and cuddly mode.
Saturday's matches were played in front of a Fed Cup record crowd of 15, 000.
The loans would be purchased through an FDIC program and the securities through a Fed program.
He sees falling unemployment as a Fed-boosted number, yet one that will feed business and consumer confidence.
Mixed signals to a Fed concerned that higher gas prices and food prices will constrain consumer spending.
In my many years covering the Federal Reserve I have never seen a Fed policy action this controversial.
Not to mention that Draghi could punt back to Bernanke, with a Fed meeting on deck Sept. 12-13.
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Also worth considering is just what might preempt a Fed decision to take its foot off the gas.
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"We're still seeing modest U.S. economic growth and a Fed that's got the printing presses going, " said Mr. Nolte.
Today, we have inflation-tied bonds and what amounts to a Fed inflation target.
This is in the face of a Fed buying program that should have acted to suppress yields, not ignite them.
This led to ideas that Bernanke might signal, during a speech Friday at a Fed symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
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Bill Murray plays Grimm, a fed-up New York City bureaucrat who dresses up as a clown to rob a midtown bank.
Regulators, including a Fed governor, were out talking this week about their desire for banks to raise additional capital from private investors.
The quest for yield has been so pronounced, and even recently cited by a Fed Governor, the protection has been fading away.
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Even when a Fed policy is successful, it can have unintended consequences.
Jones forecasts a Fed rate hike in the second half of 2013.
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Keith Phillips, a Fed economist based in San Antonio, has a gloomier perspective: he recently predicted that almost 300, 000 jobs will go.
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This week, we have both a Fed and ECB meeting, with speculation growing louder that the latter could opt for a rate cut.
Volcker resigned in 1987 not long after losing a Fed vote for higher interest rates that showed support for his chairmanship breaking down.
Given his more optimistic view on the U.S. economy than the consensus he is calling for a Fed rate hike in January 2013.
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"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product, " a Fed spokeswoman said.
Another historic event occurred since our last issue: the first ever press conference held by a Fed chairman since the Fed was founded in 1913.
Nothing much, except I got addicted to Jackson Hole years ago when I was eligible to attend the Jackson Hole Symposium as a Fed policymaker.
Or a fed-up Germany, possibly joined by the Netherlands and Austria, could decide to junk the euro and restore the D-mark, which would then appreciate.
That was what I believed until I took a few more economics courses after starting to work at a Fed bank as an IT person.
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No need to head down to the hotel business center when I am on the road or search for a Fed-Ex outlet in an unfamiliar town.
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