The Fed

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Thorsten Polleit

The Fed has a difficult balancing act. To maintain the current easy-money induced boom, it must not raise rates. But at the same time, it must also act as if it might raise rates some day, or savers will abandon the credit markets.

Jonathan Newman
The Federal Reserve told a federal judge in Colorado to dismiss a lawsuit by Fourth Corner Credit Union, blocking marijuana businesses in the state from legal banking services. This is just one of the many legal conundrums the budding industry has had to face since state law branched away from federal law on marijuana.
Mark Thornton

A report on my day inside the Fed

Mises Institute

The Pope is touring North America this week, promoting a variety of interventionist “solutions” to global warming, poverty, and more. But a far more powerful religious figure, Janet Yellen, continues to pull the levers of the global financial system.

Frank Shostak

There’s much debate over how the Fed determines interest rates. Many pundits seem to assume that central banks dictate interest rates to the market. In fact, central banks mostly affect interest rates indirectly through their power to change the money supply.

Mises Institute

In spite of past assurances to the contrary, our central planners at the Federal Reserve emerged this week to announce that their zero-interest-rate policy will continue. Is the world coming to realize that the emperors have no clothes?

Jeff Deist

Perhaps no economic pronouncement in history has been anticipated, discussed, predicted, dissected, and reported like the Federal Reserve’s momento

Mises Institute

Whether it’s the aftermath of the Greek crisis or the ongoing migrant and refugee crisis, the nation-states of Europe, and the EU government, have plenty to worry about. Meanwhile, the world braces for next week's Fed meeting.