News
Bloomberg | Bernanke Seen Buying $1.14 Trillion in Assets in 2014
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s latest round of bond buying will reach $1.14 trillion before he ends the program in the first quarter of 2014, according to median estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
CNN Money | Meet the Fed's newest voters
The Federal Reserve will shake up its roster at its meeting this week, just as it does at the beginning of every year.
CNBC | No Wall Street Consensus on When & How QE Ends
Wall Street expects the Federal Reserve to remain highly aggressive throughout 2013 but is divided over when quantitative easing will end and how it will be stopped, according to the January CNBC Fed Survey.
Econ Comments & Analysis
WSJ | Fed Policy Is a Drag on the Economy
As they meet this week, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues will be looking at an economic recovery that has been far weaker than expected. Early in 2010 they predicted that growth in 2012 would be a robust 4%. It turned out to be a disappointing 2%. And as the recovery fell short of their expectations, they continued and then doubled down on the emergency interventions used in the panic in 2008.
Mercatus | Evaluating Risk-Based Capital Regulation
The standard capital ratio of equity over assets has long been used as an important indicator of bank risk. Banks with more equity are less affected by asset depreciation than are other banks because a drop in the value of their assets affects only their equity and not their liabilities.
