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BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 James C. Cooper	Housing's Tentative Gains In a tricky balancing act meant to support the nascent housing recovery, the Fed suggests it might spend more to keep interest rates low, while trying to soothe investors' inflation fears.
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BusinessWeek November 25, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: The Danger in Tying the Fed's Hands Near term, inflation is under wraps. Down the road, however, the Fed's credibility as an inflation fighter could suffer if Congress exerts control over monetary policy - and that spells trouble.
BusinessWeek June 23, 2011 Rich Miller	What Now, Chairman Bernanke? Some economists and former Fed officials think Bernanke should rethink the central bank's wait-and-see policy as growth slows.
Finance & Development June 2009	Uncharted Territory When aggressive monetary policy combats a crisis. This chart shows how radically policy thinking has changed in the past century.
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 Rich Miller	Why Greenspan Will Just Let It Ride Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will wait till there's less economic slack to raise interest rates.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006	Mortgage-Rate Mojo Ever wonder what causes mortgage rates to rise and fall? Well, know that they fluctuate along with other interest rates.
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
U.S. Banker April 2011 Barbara A. Rehm	Excess of Reserves, Shortage of Facts The Fed alone - not actions by banks - dictates how large the reserve number is. And it is the Fed s expansion of its balance sheet that has ballooned reserve levels at banks.
BusinessWeek November 6, 2006 James C. Cooper	U.S.: A Do-Nothing Fed Is Looking Less Likely The notion that the Federal Reserve will be cutting interest rates next year is rapidly losing support on Wall Street.
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 L. William Seidman	Will the Fed's Medicine Work? Fed activity is unprecedented -- a new activism never seen before in the history of the United States.
Reason January 2009 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel	The Fed's Binge How the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing
The Motley Fool April 27, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz	Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks.
BusinessWeek February 18, 2010 Rich Miller	Interest Rate Tightening: It's All in the Timing Details are emerging on how the Fed will tighten credit. But Congress really wants to know whether it will happen before the fall elections.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Time To Wave Goodbye To A "Measured" Pace In an economy this strong, the Fed might need to hike rates faster
The Motley Fool December 2, 2004	Why Mortgage Rates Rise and Fall Remember that the money markets themselves (basic supply and demand for money at each price point) exert the biggest influence over interest rates, though the Fed is a big influence on market expectations.
The Motley Fool April 12, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Stop Listening to the Fed Trying to understand the Federal Reserve will just get you confused. If you have a solid long-term investment plan, you shouldn't use news about the Fed to guide your trading decisions. If the noise will distract you, it's best just to tune it out.
BusinessWeek July 30, 2007 James C. Cooper	Behind Bernanke's Picture Perfect Forecast The Fed still frets that inflation won't behave as policymakers expect.
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Cooper & Madigan	The Fed: Another Failure To Communicate? The Federal Reserve must convince the markets that higher interest rates can still accommodate growth
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The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	Parsing the Fed's Statement: Experts Weigh In The Fed released some words; that means experts must analyze them.
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Ivan Martchev	Has Bernanke Lost His Marbles? Looks like the Fed will run the printing press until we run out of trees.
BusinessWeek April 3, 2006 Catherine Yang	Inflation: What You Foresee Is What You Get Expectations of future price hikes may play a big role in how much and how fast the Fed raises rates.
Investment Advisor July 2008	Stop Relying on the Fed It seems odd that the Fed would be willing to write flood insurance to Wall Street and that Wall Street was, and continues to be, more than happy to accept such a generous gift from the Fed.
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U.S. Banker May 2010	Be Patient and Let Margins Expand with Time Here are three actions banks can-and should-take today to ensure stronger margins in the future.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Cooper & Madigan	U.S.: Patience At The Fed May No Longer Be A Virtue As economic growth accelerates, a 46-year-low fed funds rate of 1% is becoming impossible to maintain.
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.
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The Motley Fool March 24, 2008 Dan Caplinger	How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways.
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The Motley Fool June 22, 2006 Mike Norman	A Simple Guide to Creating Money The government's printing money like crazy. Or is it? If economic conditions provide for few business opportunities, the Fed can exert little influence over monetary growth.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2006 Michael K. Evans	Evans On The Economy: Gentle Ben? The Federal Reserve's incoming chairman confronts a choice: Suffer now or later?
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The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Morgan Housel	Bernanke's Out of Bullets Ben Bernanke has spent the past year and a half firing as many bullets as possible to prop up the economy. After lowering the target on the Fed funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25%, he's finally out of ammunition.
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 James C. Cooper	Looking Hard at Inflation--All of It The Fed has long made policy while averting its eyes from food and energy. But it may be impossible to turn away any longer.
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Peter Coy	Credit and the Bernanke Code The Fed's new foray into bond purchases has to lower long-term rates to succeed. The $600 billion is less than it has already spent.
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The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Morgan Housel	Picture of the Day: Why Inflation Isn't a Problem Excess reserves are piled high.
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The Motley Fool August 25, 2011 Alex Dumortier	Tomorrow's Market Decline Doesn't Matter Investors counting on Ben Bernanke will be disappointed.
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