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New York Times
Fed Will Meet With Concerns on Deflation Rising

The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday faced with a pivotal decision about whether to abandon its presumption that the economy is gradually picking up steam and begin to consider new steps to keep the recovery from sputtering out.

A string of developments, including the weak jobs ( Read more... )

CNNMoney

Bernanke: Recovery 'uncertain'Fed chairman said central bank is ready to take more steps to spur growth, even as it plans to pull back trillions it pumped into economy in last two years.

Washington (CNNMoney.com) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress Wednesday that the economic outlook remains "unusually uncertain ( Read more... )

Simon Johnson @ HuffPo

MIT Professor and co-author of 13 Bankers
Posted: June 29, 2010 06:43 AM

The next financial boom seems likely to be centered on lending to emerging markets.  Sam Finkelstein, head of emerging markets debt at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, summed up the prevailing market view - and no doubt talked up his own ( Read more... )

For they may have known long in advance of what was soon to come.

Cover: The Economist

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PK: 30% - 40% odds of technical recession in second half, better than even odds of "growth recession."

From Bloomberg:
Krugman Sees 30-40% Chance of U.S. Recession in 2010


Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said he sees about a one-third chance the U.S. economy will slide into a recession during the second half of the ( Read more... )

Person of the Year 2009

The story of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. How the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve prevented an economic catastrophe.
A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy. He doesn't have a commanding presence ( Read more... )

From America Blogby Steven Kyle (NY) on 10/13/2009 03:59:00 PM ( Read more... )

This video (CNBC) featuring Bernanke, CNBC's Steve Liesman and others is great, and touches upon several of the points many of us are now pondering.

Behind this cut, as it might auto-play ( Read more... )

Digital and Broadband (AP Video)


Digital and Broadband (Bloomberg Video)