Topic: Federal Reserve Bank Of St. Louis

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis recently began publishing a new weekly index that seeks to track the general level of financial stress.. . As...

The Economy: Stressed Out And Up

To say that the global economy is stressed is to state the obvious these days. The potential for implosion in one of the world's major currencies...

Banks And Leverage

Another near death experience in equity markets has been avoided - at least for now. Kevin KAL Kallaugher's cartoon in last month's newsletter...

10 Scary Charts - October 31 Update

Please note this post is the latest update to a series of articles, the last being on July 21.). . I find the following charts to be disturbing...

The town that lived off speeding tickets

Randolph, Mo., is a tiny town with a common problem: money is tight.. . To keep afloat, the Kansas City outpost apparently did what many little...

How to Take Advantage of a Market ...

Posted on 10/03/11 at 9:39am by Jonathan Chen . Last week, we got data from the Chicago Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI ), and it beat handily...

Fed's Bullard: QE effective proxy for rate cuts

ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Large-scale bond buying can be an effective monetary policy substitute when the Federal Reserve runs out of room to cut interest rates, a top official of the U.S. central bank said on Thursday.Speaking on the final day ...
St. Louis Fed's Bullard Discusses Effectiveness of QE2. . Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard delivered remarks titled “QE2:...

Fed's Bullard sees risks with "extended period" phrase

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lengthening the "extended period" of low U.S. interest rates could encourage a liquidity trap, a top Federal Reserve official said on Saturday.St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard was commenting on the Fed's promise to keep interest ...

Fed's James Bullard says funding of consumer bureau a worry

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday funding for a consumer protection office established under regulatory reform laws is not based on a clear sense of how much the bureau needs and is a source of concern ...