S&P 500 Cheapest to Bonds on Zero Fed Rates   The Standard & Poor's 500 Index is approaching the cheapest level ever compared with bonds as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's zero-pe...

  Fed Should Heed Lessons of 1920 Recession Response, Grant Says: Tom Keene   The U.S. has been “overmedicated” by public policy and should consider the government’s 1920’s response to...

  Bernanke: 8.3% Unemployment Understates Job Market Weakness   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the 8.3 percent rate of unemployment in January understates weakness in the U.S. ...

  Kyle Bass Urges Texas Fund to Hold Gold Hedge   Kyle Bass, the Dallas hedge-fund manager, urged overseers of Texas (STOTX1)’s state university endowment, the second-largest U.S. college f...

  Bernanke has "finger on trigger" for new bond buys   The Federal Reserve has moved closer to embarking on a new round of its controversial money-pumping after the central bank and its chairm...

  Eric Sprott - Aggressive Chinese Buying Will Spike Gold Price   Today billionaire Eric Sprott told King World News the Chinese cannot continue to buy gold as aggressively as they have been w...

  Fed: Benchmark Rate Will Stay Low Until Late 2014   Federal Reserve officials said their benchmark interest rate will stay low until at least late 2014 and anticipate that unemployment will...

  Bernanke Doubles Down on Fed Mortgage Bet   Ben S. Bernanke is signaling his willingness to double down on a three-year bet that’s failed to revive housing, showing the extent of the Feder...

  Marc Faber intervjues av Reuters   Marc Faber kommenterer hjelpepakkene som har kommet på plass for bankene de siste dagene, og sier han er generelt bearish til markedene nå. Imidlertid fo...

  Fed’s Lacker Predicts Moderate 2012 Growth   Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker predicted the U.S. economy will grow 2 percent to 2.5 percent next year, with infla...

  Bernanke Signals Fed Ready to Ease on EU Risk   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled he’s concerned Europe’s crisis will hobble a 2 1/2-year U.S. expansion that may need ano...

  Hedgefondforvalteren Kyle Bass fra Hayman Capital presenterer sine makroøkonomiske vurderinger på American Catalyst 2011 konferansen   Kyle Bass gir sine vurderinger av gjeldskrisen i Euro...

  Dealers See Fed Buying $545B Mortgage Bonds   The biggest bond dealers in the U.S. say the Federal Reserve is poised to start a new round of stimulus, injecting more money into the economy ...

  Bloomberg TV intervjuer Mohamed El-Erian fra PIMCO og diskuterer verdensøkonomien   Mohamed El-Erian sier at PIMCO vurder sjansene som store for at man går tilbake inn i en resesjon, og ha...

  FOMC Minutes Show Additional Easing Discussed   Some Federal Reserve policy makers said the central bank should consider easing policy further, according to minutes of their Nov. 1-2 meetin...

  Insight: U.S. readies defenses against Europe spillover   The United States is ramping up attempts to safeguard its financial system from a worsening of Europe's debt crisis, joining nations...

  Gold: The hedge against political stupidity   Gold is said to be a hedge against inflation, deflation and all other nasty sorts of economic bugaboos. It looks like it may be a hedge against ...

  Fed Lays Ground for More Large-Scale Asset Purchases   Federal Reserve officials are probably engineering a third round of large-scale asset purchases, while they are unlikely to announce a ...

  Inflation Peaking in U.S. as Most Prices Tumble   The biggest rout in commodities since the global recession may be a sign that the fastest U.S. inflation in three years is peaking. The Stan...

  Why Fed dissident Fisher opposes further action   He's an inflation "hawk" who isn't worried about inflation, a former political candidate appalled by politics, a dissident who views himself...

  Bernanke: Crisis taught lesson for central banks   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says a key lesson learned from the 2008 financial crisis is that central banks must have a dual goal ...

  Fed Presidents Differ Over Bank’s Ability to Boost Growth   Two Federal Reserve policy makers differed over the central bank’s ability to boost growth, with one calling for more action t...

  US to Experience Stagflation Worse Than 1970s: Jim Rogers The U.S. economy is likely to experience a period of stagflation "As the inflation numbers get worse and as governments print more mo...

  Do Yesterday’s Fed Minutes Indicate QE3 on Horizon?   If the market had not been so stretched yesterday, the minutes of the Fed’s last meeting – released yesterday afternoon- would hav...