As outlined by the Federal Reserve on their Web Site Overall Functions of the Federal Reserve: Monetary Policy Goals and Guides Implementation Foreign Currency Operations Supervision, Regulation and Consumer Protection U.S. Government Payments FRB – The Federal Reserve …
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To define rights and put them in the context of our history and government, the second section of the Declaration of Independence reads, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed …
Most will agree housing prices were inflated by an artificial bubble. There were multiple causes for this, one of them being interest rates were very low making mortgages easier than normal to obtain. Housing prices must be allowed to readjust …
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Many times after a post is published, comments are received, or new events occur and the original post needs to be updated. WordPress should have a setting allowing it to show the last modified date and/or time for each post. …
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As central banks around the globe attempt to implement monetary policy and manage their respective fiat currencies, speculation is being made that they will become net buyers of gold rather than net sellers. Since the significant breakdown of the Bretton …
Environmental Working Group releases the first hard data on the radiation emitted by over 1,200 of the most common cell phones. Scientists and researches have been divided on how much radiation the body can tolerate being emitted from a cell …
On January 16th 2009, Bank of America (BofA) disclosed with its first ever quarterly loss of $1.79 billion, a US government loan backstop for $118 billion on assets mostly from its government encouraged Merrill Lynch acquisition1. The loan backstop is …
Investors applied for a total of $6.5 billion in loans from the Federal Reserve through their Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) emergency lending program. The TALF program provides low interest loans to investors for purchasing securities backed by auto, …
Bloomberg News unit sued the Federal Reserve under the Freedom of Information Act for a list of companies in their emergency lending programs . The emergency lending programs created last year by the Federal Reserve contains near $2 trillion in loans. …
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The Federal Reserve announced on Aug 17th it would extend the emergency rescue loan program, Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) with capacity of up to $1 trillion, by another 3 to 6 months. The Fed and Treasury justify this …
Federal Reserve Liquidity Swap Lines There are two types of Liquidity Swaps the Federal Reserve by way of the Federal Open Market Committee has established: Dollar Liquidity Swap Lines and Foreign-Currency Liquidity Swap Lines. Dollar Liquidity Swap Lines A …
On Tuesday, August 11th, the Federal Reserve purchased an additional $2.7 billion of US Department of Treasury bonds maturing from August 2026 through May 2039, essentially 17-30 year bond maturity dates. In March, the Federal Reserve stated it would purchase up …
The two day Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting ended today. Fed official press release linked below. The majority of monetary policy programs stayed the same. Fed Funds rate will continue to be held at a record low of 0 – 1/4% …
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CNN Money is maintaining a great resource tracking all the bailout money. For an overall comprehensive list of all the bailout programs by Congress, Treasury and the Fed List of 650 banks, so far, which have received bailout money List of 94 …
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility – Definition and Explanation “The Federal Reserve created the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF), to help market participants meet the credit needs of households and small businesses by supporting the issuance of asset-backed securities …
Unconventional monetary policy announced by the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee on March 18 2009: “To provide greater support to mortgage lending and housing markets, the Committee decided today to increase the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet further …
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Current accounting of the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet as of July 30th 2009 $695.758 billion – U.S. Treasury Securities $105.915 billion – Federal Agency Debt Securities $542.888 billion – Mortgage-backed Securities $274.085 billion – Direct Bank Lending (Loans through Discount …
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When the government wants to spend money it does not have, there are basically three options, raise taxes, print money or borrow money. The Monetization of Debt involves the issuance of debt or simply known as borrowing money done by the …
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