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FOX Business | Fed's Credibility Tested as Inflation Drifts Below Target
With the U.S. inflation rate about half of the Federal Reserve's 2.0% target, the central bank is facing a major test and some experts wonder whether it will eventually need to ramp up its already aggressive bond buying program.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Real Clear Markets | Japan May Regret Starting A Difficult Inflation Fire
Japanese policymakers might learn the hard way that one must be very careful about what you wish for. Having engaged in the most unorthodox monetary policy experiments to engender some inflation into the Japanese economy, they might find it difficult to get the inflation genie back into the bottle once the inflation process has been restarted.
Bloomberg | New Regulations Are Strangling Community Banks
The wave of new banking regulations that Congress created to deter and punish Wall Street’s misdeeds is landing with much greater impact on the U.S.’s almost 7,000 community banks than on the too-big-to-fail lenders.
