If it were to try to do so, holders of dollars could over-rule the Fed by turning in the extra dollars for gold, forcing the Fed to reverse its policies.
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For that matter, is the Fed over-tightening?
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Two interesting wrinkles to the latest version of these tests: banks get a one-time do over if the Fed rejects their capital plan and a key measure of risk-weighted assets has gotten more stringent.
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That was never going to be enough to unseat Mr Bloomberg, whose liberal social values made him a natural cross-over candidate for New York Democrats fed up with their party's left-wing local leadership.
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With both the Williams sisters ruled out through injury, Melanie Oudin opened the tie for the hosts with a 6-3 6-3 win over Alla Kudryavtseva -- who was making her Fed Cup debut.
They earn less than their better-fed peers over their lifetimes, marry poorer spouses and die earlier.
So the Fed will not be getting over-excited by the latest data.
Wallace then got a block and after the Pistons were turned the ball over on a shot-clock violation, he fed Lopez for a jumper to extend the lead to 24-18.
The trading week was largely driven by the news coming out of Europe, with the post-Fed rally continuing to pause over European uncertainty, some continuing poor global economic data, lowered earnings expectations, and perhaps some pure old-fashioned profit-taking into the end of the 3rd Quarter.
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If Ben Bernanke, who has been given another turn as chairman of the Federal Reserve, would decisively declare that the Bush era's weak-dollar policy is over and that the Fed's monetary policy will henceforth be guided by commodities in general and gold in particular, the value of the dollar would soar--and without a single greenback having been withdrawn from circulation.
Though the Fed would lose long-cherished supervisory authority over big banks such as Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase, its overall power would be greatly expanded.
Gartman noted that the era of the Fed as an inflation-fighting institution is now over.
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However, the Fed will most likely seize upon the month-over-month change in the core rate, which registered a negative .6%.
Per market strategist Dave Rosenberg, interest income has declined by three percent over the past year as the Fed continues to enforce their near-zero interest rate policy.
The Fed foolishly left margin requirements too low, fueling over-speculation.
It took until 12 minutes from the break before Salford's defence was breached when Joel Tomkins fed Martin Gleeson to send scrum-half Deacon over for his first Wigan try since arriving from Bradford.
The following is a graph of the fed funds rate and the 10-year Treasury rate over the past few decades.
Cudjoe added the conversion and then went over in the corner for the second try after being fed by 18-year-old debutant full-back Elliott Hodgson.
Castleford finally broke the deadlock in the 32nd minute when Davis regathered his own kick and fed Orr, who put winger Barrie-Jon Mather over.
Hedge fund zillionaire Paul Singer is super-mad at the Federal Reserve and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke over inflation they have not yet quite unleashed.
All the activity moved markets up Monday, but analysts are busy at the start of the week forecasting market movement after the Fed stops its QE2 bond-buying program in just over a fortnight.
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Lastly, the Fed could buy foreclosed properties from GSEs, which would not only help slow the decline in home prices, but also allow the Fed to hold under-valued housing assets rather than over-valued treasuries.
But that provision in Humphrey-Hawkins has needlessly confused the Fed and the rest of us over our central bank's proper role.
Meanwhile, Petra Kvitova and Lucie Safarova gave Fed Cup champions the Czech Republic a 2-0 lead over Australia after the first day of their World Group tie in Ostrava on Saturday.
Would the Fed use a quick depression as a cure to devalue the over-priced durable goods by raising the interest rate as a catalyst to thwart off the irrational exuberance since the economy is doomed to the Self-induced Paralysis?
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And that seems to be the predominant response from those fed up with the onslaught of downtime-related coverage and commentary over the past two days.
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The steep one-day price decline, which is shaving still more off already-weakened capital bases, demonstrate that the Fed's aggressive moves over the weekend haven't alleviated fears.
Fed's all over the next point, he has to win this - no, he's let an overhead go, and Berds fights back. 30-30.
Mr Fujii, say people who have spoken to him, was fed up with the power wielded over Mr Hatoyama by Ichiro Ozawa, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ).
The Fed seems highly unlikely to raise interest rates from their near-zero levels over the next 12 months or so.
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