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BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S: Can Productivity Keep Up The Good Work? U.S. productivity must stay on track with pay gains to hold inflation at bay. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2006 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Strong Labor Markets Put The Fed On The Spot Weak productivity and rising labor costs could force more rate hikes. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 James Mehring |
A Slower Speed Limit For The Economy? The second quarter produced solid economic growth, but there was also important news about revisions to real gross domestic product covering the past three years. |
BusinessWeek February 26, 2007 James C. Cooper |
The Gray Area In The Fed's Blue-Sky Forecast Further rate increases may be needed to tame a spirited economy. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: Why Inflation Fears Are Unfounded The Fed will have plenty of time to reverse its huge stimulus, as unused labor and production capacity prevent price pressures from building. |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2007 James C Cooper |
Tipped Toward Recession The Fed seems to think inflation-recession forces are in balance, but softening labor markets, tighter lending standards, and nearly $100-a-barrel oil say otherwise. |
BusinessWeek September 24, 2007 Michael Mandel |
Bernanke's Dilemma The markets are clamoring for rate cuts, but weak U.S. productivity gains and strong global growth may limit the Fed's options. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Job Markets Will Decide The Fed's Next Move The low jobless rate, despite slower growth, heightens the inflation threat. |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 James C. Cooper |
The Fed Won't Give The Markets A Break Amid inflation pressures, Bernanke isn't ready for a preemptive rate cut. |
BusinessWeek August 21, 2006 James C. Cooper |
The Fed May Not Have Long To Catch Its Breath The trend in labor costs suggests it might need to resume hiking rates. |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Seth Jayson |
The Bad Good News The Federal Reserve Bank is standing firm on its decision to not drop interest rates at this time, indicating its belief that overall, the economy is not doing that badly. Investors, watch for opportunities if the markets do take a downturn in their move back towards equilibrium. |
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Weak Payrolls Mask A Tightening Job Market How companies handle rising labor costs will affect future inflation. |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Mr. Market: Manic or Moron? Investors, make sure potential rewards adequately compensate you for your risks. |
BusinessWeek April 2, 2007 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Say Goodbye To High Growth And Low Inflation The economic Eden of the late 1990s and early 2000s is slowly fading. |
The Motley Fool September 6, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Ben's Tough Love for Wall Street The Fed announces that the economy is doing fine and expanding modestly, and the housing contagion seems mostly contained. This is good news, or bad news, depending on who you are. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Wall Street's Party Continues Bad news? Wall Street is ready to party. Investors need to make sure their portfolios won't be one of those that will need to be scraped off the bathroom tile. |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 James C. Cooper |
Inflation Wild Cards Will Keep The Fed On Hold Demand, costs, and global forces raise new questions for prices. |
BusinessWeek February 19, 2007 James Mehring |
The Housing Drag Casts A Long Shadow During 2006, productivity growth was the weakest in nine years, while the labor cost required to produce a given unit of a good or service surged. But don't fret too much: The data on productivity and unit labor costs are being skewed by the housing downturn. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2009 James Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Fed Should Be in No Rush to Raise Rates Trading in the futures market already shows investors are betting the Fed will begin to lift its target interest rate within the coming year. But time is on Bernanke's side, and he won't want to jump the gun. |
BusinessWeek March 22, 2004 |
Productivity: Who Wins, Who Loses The U.S. is reaping big -- but uneven -- gains from its highly efficient workforce |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2006 |
Explaining Stock Market Gyrations Learn how the folks at the Fed influence the stock market. |
BusinessWeek August 20, 2007 Peter Coy |
The Bernanke Agenda The Fed chairman feels the pain of subprime borrowers and the Street, but he's got his priorities. |
BusinessWeek September 3, 2007 James Mehring |
Inflation Takes A Backseat--For Now The Federal Reserve has put its inflation concerns on the back burner as it focuses on the financial markets and the potential risks they pose to economic growth. |
BusinessWeek July 5, 2004 Rich Miller |
What Keeps Greenspan Up At Night The Fed chairman must fend off the threat of inflation without stealing momentum from the recovery. Can he walk that fine line? |
BusinessWeek May 9, 2005 Rich Miller |
The Economy: Why It's Not Deja Vu Wall Street is worried about '70s-style stagflation, but the Federal Reserve is counting on productivity to keep the threat at bay. |
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007 Michael Mandel |
The Real Threat Isn't Housing If productivity growth keeps sliding, a widespread crisis could be next. |
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 James C. Cooper |
U.S.: Low Unemployment Raises An Old Inflation Debate Should the Federal Reserve keep hiking rates in the face of a tighter labor market? |
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Fed Needs To Do A Little More Fiddling With the housing sector unlikely to ease up anytime soon, the factory sector may have to bear a larger-than-usual burden for the Federal Reserve to achieve its goal of a well-balanced economy and price stability. |
The Motley Fool August 29, 2006 Seth Jayson |
No Housing Bust Here! As the numbers keep getting worse, the housing industry feigns surprise and tries to put on a happy face. Oversupply in the face of negative growth in real wages, together with higher borrowing costs, eventually will have to lead home prices downward. |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2005 Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- Assessing Alan Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve has done a competent but not outstanding job. |
BusinessWeek August 22, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: Doubts About The Productivity Slowdown What's the Federal Reserve to do about widely differing measures of productivity? |
The Motley Fool June 11, 2008 Kristin Graham |
Can Bernanke Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk? Ben Bernanke is getting down to business to combat inflation. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Did the Fed Go Too Low Too Long? Did the Fed blunder the first time through? Is there any hope of avoiding it this time? |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Bernanke Just Makes It Worse Inflation, not deflation, is the economic culprit. |
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Rich Miller |
The Firepower In Consumers' Pockets Why they'll keep spending despite the job market |
The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Morgan Housel |
The Inflation Nightmare Just Got 5.6% Worse Prices surge faster than they have in 17 years. What's a Fed chief to do? |
BusinessWeek May 24, 2004 Miller & Coy |
The Power Of Productivity: Why This Recovery Will Roll On The economy is in a sweet spot that should keep inflation at bay for some time. |
CFO December 1, 2006 Edward Teach |
A Productive Debate Significant or not, the gap between pay and productivity is a subject that won't go away, particularly now that control of Congress is passing to the labor-friendly Democratic Party. |
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S. Labor Markets: The Truth About Worker Pay Just how big is the squeeze on the pay of American workers? The answer is not as clear-cut as the polarized views of each political camp would lead you to believe. |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2007 Seth Jayson |
No Ambiguity in New Housing Numbers An explanation of the latest housing numbers. |
The Motley Fool August 11, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Burnt-Out Workers Could Save the Economy What the fall in labor productivity means for our recovery. |
BusinessWeek March 27, 2006 Catherine Yang |
Imports From China Aren't Pricier -- Yet Should the Federal Reserve care that Chinese wages are rising at a 10% pace? |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
BusinessWeek October 15, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outloook: The Waning Threat of Deflation The recovery is starting to reverse many trends putting downward pressure on prices and wages, paving the way for the Fed to begin tightening in 2010 |
The Motley Fool June 5, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Bernanke Said What? If inflation continues to take a bite out of consumer spending, it might not be enough to dump the economy. But it could be more than enough to put an end to the peak earnings we're seeing these days. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: The Real Inflation Threat Isn't Energy Will lower energy prices add to inflationary pressures? If that sounds a bit counterintuitive, consider this: The economy is already growing so rapidly that it is putting pressure on available labor, production capacity, and distribution channels. |
BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
U.S.: An Economy This Warm Won't Cool On Its Own Robust growth may require the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates into 2006. |
The Motley Fool March 15, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: The Bizarro Market If and when the Fed tightens rates to try and rein in the current whack-a-mole inflation, it won't make stocks any more attractive. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
How the Federal Reserve Lost Its War Every battle is won or lost before it is fought. |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
Why Bernanke Was Wrong When the Fed fights the wrong battle, you lose. |