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Friday, March 1, 2013

Monetary

Econ Comments & Analysis                                                                                            
Market Watch | Fed should not scale back QE plan: Evans
The Federal Reserve should not scale back its bond-buying program, said Charles Evans, president of the Chicago Fed Bank, on Thursday. In a speech to the CFA Society of Iowa in Des Moines, Evans said that the U.S. should not replicate the mistake made by the Japanese government of trying to end its easy monetary policy too soon. - See more at: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2013-02-28/economy/37352137_1_qe-plan-asset-bubbles-easy-monetary-policy#sthash.k0lr3y0F.dpuf

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Economist | The Eager for Catastrophe Bank
It is safe to say that we have passed the point at which criticisms of the European Central Bank must be prefaced with the caveat that, yes, the ECB did prevent a nasty break-up of the single currency when its head, Mario Draghi, promised to do "whatever it takes" to keep the euro zone together.