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[Long Island Business News] Long Island Business News » Fed in uncharted waters, eyes new tools: and his colleagues resumed their two-day meeting Wednesday morning, and at its conclusion this afternoon they are all but certain to leave a key interest rate at a record low to provide relief.

[Latest financial news - CNNMoney.com] Why the Fed still matters - Jan. 28, 2009: "Until we get clear evidence that the economy is turning around, things are going to stay very hectic at the Fed," he said. Other economists say its clear that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wants to keep the Fed's district banks involved in .

[NewsDaily: Business Headlines] NewsDaily: Fed to hold rates near zero, kickstart economy: 27, 2009 (Economic Times, India) ”” The US Federal Reserve wraps up a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday focused on new tools to revive a moribund economy that has so far failed to .

[GoldSeek.com] Ben Bernanke's Wild Ride (and Ours) - GoldSeek.com: However, a principal message of my talk today is that a central bank whose accustomed policy rate has been forced down to zero has most definitely not run out of ammunition. As I will discuss, a central bank, either alone or in cooperation with other parts of the government, retains considerable power to expand aggregate demand and economic activity even when its accustomed policy rate is at zero.

[RevolutionRadio.org] Fed’s Shift to Zero Rates Leaves Experts Blind, Complicates ...: “To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based,” he said at the London School of Economics.

[HozNews] HozNews » Fed struggles to find new ways to revive growth: Balestrino said Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues “are likely to be more explicit about their plans for quantitative easing — that is, using measures such as direct injections into banks and purchases of debt securities to pump more capital into ailing institutions and the markets.”

[Daily Report - Free Stories] Bernanke eyes risky move to cure economy - Daily Report: Bernanke eyes risky move to cure economy. Fed policy makers are exploring the purchase of longer-dated Treasury securities in an effort to push up their price and bring down their yield.

[JUAN CARLOS NAVA'S BLOG] US FED ZERO-RATE COMPLICATES BERNANKE’S JOB! « JUAN CARLOS NAVA’S BLOG: First of all, Lula was not the president of Brazil in 1999, how could you have missed it after all your pseudo-efforts to maintain a general disguise of well informed and educated type of market-demagogue. Secondly, you're not sufficiently well informed to debate anything about Brazil.

[Mises Economics Blog] Bernanke's Errors Exposed - Mises Economics Blog: By setting interest rates too low right from the outset, Bernanke aggravated the crisis. He did so by putting a destructive chain of events in motion, starting in the foreign exchange market, then moving into the oil trading pits, the latter eventually making itself felt in the economy, and all of this culminating in the financial conflagration experienced this past fall.

[Economy Blog] Economy Blog » Wall Street Waits for Fed and Whines About Bonuses: Garnering almost as much attention during this slow-motion day were AIG and Wall Street bonuses. The amount of rationalizing and whining about these payments will only increase the desire of the American public to tell both AIG and Wall Street to pound sand.

[Steve Shickles] Steve Shickles » Blog Archive » Fed to hold rates near zero ...: Fed to hold rates near zero, kickstart economy (Reuters) · Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at a home ownership and mortgage issues conference at the Federal Reuters - The Federal Reserve will resume a key meeting on Wednesday to .

[EPS100Momentum's Blog] The Fed. could push a beaten down market higher on Wed.: Bernanke said earlier this month the Fed still has "powerful tools" at its disposal to counter a crisis that began with a US real estate meltdown and spread to the global financial sector, resulting in a credit squeeze and slump that has affected consumer spending, manufacturing and the broad economy.

[Mortgage Market Update] Real Estate Blog - Mortgage Market Update - Light at the end of ...: In an announcement earlier in the month, Fed Chairman Bernanke indicated the timing of a global economic recovery was "highly uncertain." This uncertainty was reinforced last week as the economic turmoil continued across the globe and Spain joined Greece to become the second Euro zone country to have their debt downgraded by Standards and Poor's. A lower debt rating increases the cost to borrow further aggravating the attempts to fund the massive bailouts.

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