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Frederic Mishkin, former Federal Reserve Board governor and Columbia University professor, says it's very unlikely the Fed will increase QE. "They want to cut off those asset purchases,"

``Perhaps Bernanke will oblige one more time, knowing that the US economy has yet to absorb the full shock of fiscal tightening, the biggest squeeze for half a century... Yet what causes me to hesitate is the drip of reports and comments from key ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- His call for 10-year U.S. Treasury yields to hit 3.76% by year-end makes him the most bearish bond forecaster in a Bloomberg survey of 71 market economists, but even Parsec Financial chief economist Jim Smith sees the Federal ...

Since the double-digit inflation of the 1970s, central banks have sought to reduce inflation and keep it low. This column argues that recent history teaches us that inflation has fallen too low. Raising inflation targets to 4% would have little ...

The latest poll of Morgan Stanley's top clients from across the world says it all. Chief economist Joachim Fels tells us that not a single investor at the bank's Florence forum thought the world economy would rebound with any strength later this ...

Monetarists across the world have warned that the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements are making an historic error by calling for a withdrawal of emergency stimulus before the global economy has fully recovered.

Professors at the University of Texas, Austin aren't happy about new rules that will require public disclosure of any outside activities. The new regulations are similar to what professors at the Columbia Business School have had to follow for two ...

By : I know it sounds crazy to suggest that the Federal Reserve Bank is in trouble, but it's true. When interest rates rise, the Fed is going to recognize huge losses and will need help from the U.S. Treasury to stay afloat. I have been writing ...

loading... Authors: Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, and Dinah Walker, Analyst, Geoeconomics April 29, 2013 Financial News John Maynard Keynes once famously responded to the charge that he had changed his views on ...