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The minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's June meeting were released on Wednesday and there was much discussion about yield curve control.July 1
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Two Federal Reserve presidents said the central bank is committed to fighting racism as an economic issue.June 30
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell told House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters that the Fed was looking at ways to adjust the Municipal Liquidity Facility to make some additional issuers eligible.June 30
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With interest rates expected to stay near zero for the foreseeable future, the market expects the Fed to implement yield curve control.June 30
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stressed the importance of keeping the coronavirus contagion contained as the U.S. economy bounces back from its deepest contraction in decades.June 29
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A Fed takeover of municipal lending is a weighty policy decision fraught with dangers that should not be inadvertently or capriciously back-doored into existence during a pandemic.June 29
Senior Policy AnalystReason Foundation
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Two Federal Reserve presidents say it's gotten harder to predict what will happen with the economy.June 25
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The lawmakers argued in a letter to the Federal Reserve that suspending dividend payouts would be the "prudent course of action," allowing banks to build their capital cushions and continue lending during the coronavirus pandemic.June 24
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Recurring coronavirus outbreaks will probably hold back U.S. economic growth and leave unemployment at elevated levels in the coming years, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said.June 24
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said a strategy of capping Treasury yields out to a certain maturity may not work and such yield curve control seems unnecessary with the market pricing in rates near zero out into the future.June 23
