The other day, he says, he was looking at a field that a farmer had enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP.
In addition, the government is expected to pay several investment management firms to match private-sector money and expand a new Treasury-Federal Reserve program designed to boost consumer lending.
So the state's Independent governor, Angus King, came up with a sensible suggestion: Cut hay from land enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in the unaffected counties, and send it south, where it is immediately needed.
Within the last month, USDA has opened the Conservation Reserve Program to emergency haying and grazing, has lowered the borrower interest rate for emergency loans, and has called on crop insurance companies to provide more flexibility to farmers.
From " Bailout: An Inside Account of how Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, " by Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general to oversee the Troubled Assets Relief Program: Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke "confided that he believed that Goldman Sachs would have been the next to go" after Morgan Stanley.
Basically, the program allows people to reserve things online, then go into the store and buy them with cash.
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Other banks will likely cut their rewards program if the Federal Reserve upholds the 12-cent limit on the debit card interchange fee.
Operation Twist is a program where the Federal Reserve sells shorter-dated securities and buys longer-dated ones in a bid to push down longer-term yields.
Years of service: Myers entered the Air Force in 1965 through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program.
And inflation worries sparked by the Federal Reserve's stimulus program have ebbed, disappointing some investors who bought gold as a hedge against broad-based price increases.
And the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program is a great example of how servicemen and women are doing even more than just serving our country in uniform.
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What if the Federal Reserve ends its asset purchase program in June, beginning the so-called normalization of monetary policy?
Expect the Federal Reserve Board to reinstitute its program of bond repurchasing, thereby driving down interest rates on long duration Treasuries.
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The Federal Reserve commenced its QE I program back in September 2008.
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REITs also have benefited from a dearth of new construction in recent years and the record-low interest rates resulting from the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program, which has enabled them to raise cheap capital.
The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are all expected to stick to ultra-easy monetary policy at meetings this week, following on from reassurances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials that their stimulus program remains in place.
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Bernanke referred to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program to buy Treasury securities as a successful measure in stimulating long-term interest rates and raising the prices of equities, while also emphasizing that the practice does not really constitute government spending, as the Fed is not purchasing goods and services.
But anxiety over the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program was the main culprit.
There are some who argue that until the Federal Reserve halts its aggressive monetary easing program, the market will continue to trade higher.
Others worry there could be a rebound in Treasury yields if the U.S. economy recovers and the Federal Reserve halts its bond-buying program earlier than expected.
Talk also is circulating that the U.S. Federal Reserve continues to contemplate a fresh program to stimulate the economy by buying bonds at any sign of economic weakness.
He said news of the European Central Bank deciding to print money or the Federal Reserve embarking on a new liquidity program could be the spark that lifts prices.
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Developed by organizational psychiatrist David Cooperrider , a professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the program has been used at GTE, American Express and the Navy.
The continued slow speed of the economic recovery removes little doubt that the Federal Reserve will continue its bond-buying program (QE3).
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Since 2009 Yorkville Advisors has been an eligible borrower under the Term Asset-Backed Loan Program, or TALF, created by the Federal Reserve to support the consumer loan market.
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The Federal Reserve Bank will extend its Operation Twist program, a bond buying program that forces interest rates to historic lows and weakens the value of the dollar.
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An investment vehicle connected to Stern, Alerion TALF Fund, made the U.S. government financed investments as an eligible borrower under the Term Asset-Backed Loan Program, according to documents released by the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.
Easy global money has been a factor that has helped the Stoxx 600 gain more than 8% year-to-date, so recent concerns that the Federal Reserve will begin to pare its easing program have weighed on the index.
The dollar's rally had weighed on Asian currencies this year amid growing expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will pare its bond-buying program due to signs of recovery in the U.S. economy, reducing the attractiveness of high-yielding currencies.
And at the first signs of that deflationary bust, you can be assured the Federal Reserve will be back with yet another QE program, and with that a whole lot more inflation.
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