On the monetary side, the Fed can withdraw a bit of money and tighten credit.
The difference is that the 1979 move targeted money and, by implication, bank reserves, on the liability side of the Fed's balance sheet.
The critics assume implicitly that all the expansion on the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet is offset by monetary liabilities, which simply isn't true.
On the consumer spending side, the Fed acknowledged a slowdown in retail sales, which can has been corroborated by the likes of Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy, as I previously reported.
Yet with long-term interest rates at historically lows, and with the US government already on the credit agency watch, conservative investors may be cautions in getting on the side of the Fed, while aggressive investors may want to bet against it.
These three sets of policy tools--lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying longer-term securities--have the common feature that each represents a use of the asset side of the Fed's balance sheet, that is, they all involve lending or the purchase of securities.
On the plus side, the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey was strong, as were durable goods, which were up 5.7%.
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Nigel Sears, former coach to Daniela Hantuchova, has been brought in by Maes to work with the key players and captain the Fed Cup side.
The home side went ahead when Alexandre Pato fed Borriello, who surged inside the area, got past defender Gabriel Heinze and fired from close-range past Marseille goalkeeper Steve Mandanda.
In spite of pleas from Fed Chairman Bernanke that Congress do its share from the fiscal side, each of the last three summers has seen the recovery stumble until the Fed finally rushed in alone (with another round of QE type monetary easing) to get the recovery back on track.
The Fed likely errs on the side of caution to stimulate growth as inflation is not currently a concern.
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On the positive side, Bernanke says that while the Fed is concerned about banks' ability to make credit available, he doesn't see any "imminent risk" of insolvencies.
Customer-side CEOs in particular are growing increasingly fed up with the apparent black arts of IT operations that require larger and larger budgets without predictably delivering more and more business value.
Even though there are signs of improvement, the U.S. economy is not out of the woods yet and the U.S. Fed may err on the side of caution when it comes to removing monetary policy accommodation.
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On the positive side, durable goods orders and the Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey were both considerably better than expected.
On the short side, the expectation of QE2 by the Fed has caused a big burst of speculation, and animal spirits have returned to many pockets of the market.
But it was the home side who took the lead when midfielder Dorman was fed a through ball by Thomson and fired the ball through the legs of Falkirk keeper Dani Mallo.
While the Fed might have rescued the economy, the side effect of upwards pressure on commodity prices is making investors wary that an end to policy stimulus might arrive faster than they had otherwise thought.
Fed thinking, inexcusably, has left the production side of these linkages out of the equation.
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Critics on the other side say the tests are too easy, and that the Fed is concerned less with rigorous accountability and more with reassuring the public about the state of the industry.
To begin with, the Fed together with the banking system is on the one side of the interest rate equation.
One became two soon afterwards when Tom Huddlestone fed a corner to Palacios on the right-hand side of the box.
Instead, we have a situation where the economy is driven by which side of the bed Ben Bernanke gets up on the morning of each Fed meeting.
But Alistair Darling's appearance at the TUC conference on Tuesday is likely to demonstrate that it's not only much of the public who seem fed up with the government, but many on their own side are too.
The old saying goes that when you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail, and former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh worries that inaction on the fiscal policy side has led Bernanke to continue drawing on the financial crisis playbook.
According to Pfotenhauer, wide authority over the entire market by the Fed would ease the pressure on Congress to legislate, particularly on the Senate side.
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