But the Fed would now have to seek permission from the Treasury to carry out emergency lending.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

The Fed earlier bought one trillion seven hundred fifty billion dollars of Treasuries and other securities.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

The Fed established new lending programs, and approved large purchases of government securities and mortgage-related securities.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The Fed has not tried to influence long-term rates this way since the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The Fed will also buy up to three hundred billion dollars of long-term Treasury bonds.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The Fed has reduced short-term rates to almost zero.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

"I think there is some tentative evidence that some of the things the Fed has done starting to help.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

It seems that when the Fed is responsible for monetary policy and bank supervision, its performance in both suffers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Besides the Fed's primary responsibility for setting U.S.monetary policy, it currently oversees about 6,000 large and small banks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

The Fed chief spoke amid word of higher U.S.consumer spending, which rose 1.3 percent in August the biggest jump in nearly eight years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Among those who say they will vote against the Fed chief is Texas Republican John Cornyn, who also appeared on "Fox News Sunday".

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

The proposal would not limit bankers' pay, but would allow the Fed to review, and possibly veto, pay policies that cause too much risk-taking at banks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"If the Fed goes out and buys longer-term Treasury securities, and buys them in significant amounts, what will happen is longer-term interest rates should come down.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Besides giving the central bank the power to limit institutional risks, the proposal gives the Fed the ability to break up large institutions considered "too big to fail."

VOA: standard.2010.03.16