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Reuters, April 17, 2013. All Rights Reserved. A top Federal Reserve official said Wednesday that If inflation continues to fall he would be willing to increase the pace of the central bank’s bond-buying to defend its 2 percent inflation target. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard cautioned that further accommodation in monetary policy is not needed […]

Reuters, April 17, 2013. All Rights Reserved. (Reuters) – The current low inflation rate leaves the Federal Reserve with "room to maneuver" as it tries to boost the U.S. economy through its extraordinary monetary policies, a top Fed official said on Wednesday. Still, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said he was concerned about the low […]

The Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2013. All Rights Reserved. NEW YORK–Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard on Wednesday said he is concerned inflationary pressures may be growing too weakly and the central bank may have to do something about it. "Inflation is running very low" as measured by the personal consumption […]

Dow Jones Business News, April 17, 2013. All Rights Reserved. NEW YORK—St. Louis Fed leader James Bullard appeared to take issue with the central bank’s latest move to provide increased monetary policy guidance, saying in a speech Wednesday the Fed is limited in what it can do to affect labor market conditions. The best and […]

On April 5, Senior Scholar Jan Kregel was featured on the panel "China in the World: Growth, Adjustment, and Integration" at the INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking) conference "Changing of the Guard?" in Hong Kong. The conference, cosponsored by the Fung Global Institute and the Centre for International Governance Innovation, focused on some of […]

Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2013. All Rights Reserved. The government can and should increase the deficit to return us to prosperity. Without such outlays we can’t get enough GDP growth to seriously attack unemployment. Just before the congressional spring break, a Senate budget proposal to decrease, but not eliminate, the deficit over 10 years […]

Έθνος της Κυριακής, 4 Απριλίου 2013. Με επιφύλαξη παντός δικαιώματος. O διακεκριμένος Ελληνοαμερικανός οικονομολόγος ανήκει στους εμπνευστές του φημισμένου Ινστιτούτου Οικονομικών Levy και τελεί πρόεδρός του από την ίδρυσή του. Επίσης είναι καθηγητής Οικονομικών στην έδρα «Jerome Levy» και εκτελεστικός αντιπρόεδρος του Bard College. Στον απόηχο της «διάσωσης» της Κύπρου μίλησε στην «Οικονομία», χαρακτηρίζοντας «καταστροφική» […]