New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is a former board member of the Boston Fed.

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Mr. Evans will easily fill the shoes of Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, a consistent dove in 2010 who moves off the voting rotation.

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As my colleague Ylan Mui reported earlier, this is partly why Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren worries that our cyclical unemployment problems could become structural and long-lasting.

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The cut to the discount rate was requested by the boards of the Fed district banks in Boston, New York, Cleveland, St.

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That viewpoint was supported by comments in Boston from Vice Chairman Donald Kohn of the Fed.

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The Fed has seen this data, the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston studied it extensively and found that there were disparities that could not be explained in any reasonable way.

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