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This article from Kiplinger Personal Finance provides an overview of how the Federal Reserve works and its impact on financial markets. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), consisting of bankers, finance experts, and economists, meets eight times a year to set a target range for short-term interest rates. The committee's goal is to achieve price stability and full employment. The Federal Reserve influences interest rates through its control over short-term rates and its management of securities on its balance sheet. The article also discusses the potential market impact of the Federal Reserve's actions and the difficulty of predicting interest rates. [Extracted from the article]

According to Ed Yardeni, a longtime market and economy watcher, the current global equities selloff is reminiscent of the 1987 crash, but he believes that it is more of a technical aberration than a recession. Yardeni attributes the current plunge in equities to an unwinding of bets on the Japanese yen and big US tech companies. He anticipates that central banks will respond to the situation by providing liquidity, and while there is a risk of a credit crunch, Yardeni does not expect it to lead to a recession. He also believes that the US economy is still growing and that the labor market is in good shape. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the impact of high taxes on economic growth, citing examples such as the 18th-century British window tax and modern-day New Jersey business taxes. Topics discussed include recent progress in reducing New Jersey's corporation business tax surcharge, ongoing efforts to make the state's tax policies more competitive, and challenges faced by small businesses, including setbacks such as a lack of federal COVID funds and exclusion from property tax rebates.

The Federal Reserve is expected to lower interest rates at a slower and less regular pace than in previous years, frustrating investors who were hoping for a quicker decline. The central bank raised rates in 2022 and 2023 to combat inflation, but with inflation easing and the economy remaining strong, officials are taking a cautious approach to rate cuts. The pace of rate cuts has important implications for consumers, businesses, and the upcoming presidential election. The US economy's resilience and higher-than-expected inflation in January support the cautious approach, with officials emphasizing the need to base decisions on incoming economic data. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed). It considers how he has been blamed by many for the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It discusses his belief that he did not cause the crisis or could have prevented it, and that one day he will be able to exonerate himself. He talks of how he spends his days, research he is conducting about the economy and his tenure at the Fed, and his relationship with John Taylor of Sanford University.

The author offers opinions on the financial crisis of 2008. Its roots are said to be the decision by successive U.S. presidents to deregulate finance and industry. Several officials from past administrations give their views, offering a consensus that the process of deregulation has gone too far. The author notes that several of them, notably Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin, held the opposite view before the crisis occurred.

The article presents a speech by Jack Giampalmi, president, Management Research and Consulting, given to the executives and scientists at the Adhesive and Sealant Council's World Adhesive Conference. In this speech, Giampalmi discusses the top business leaders of the last 50 years, the problems facing these leaders, and the elements of leadership needed for sustainability. Giampalmi uses former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as an example of good leadership.

The article discusses the strategy of Ben Bernanke, U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman, to prevent financial markets from collapsing during the 2008 U.S. credit crisis. It is questioned whether increasing interest rates will create an economic boom or bubble. Unlike his predecessor Alan Greenspan, Bernanke has allowed brokerage companies to borrow money from the Federal Reserve. Concerns over rising inflation are raised.

The article presents an interview with Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He discusses the financial crisis of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, saying that it was bound to happen in one capacity or another. He is uncertain whether the decline in housing prices will spread to consumer expenditures. Greenspan comments on Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's handling of the situation.

An excerpt from economist Alan Greenspan's book "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World," is presented.

This article discusses Pimco Total Return manager William H. Gross, his reputation as a force in the investment world, and the shift he has taken from risky securities that may have damaged his stature in the business. Gross looks at the current crisis as an opportunity to reinvent himself, conferring with consultant Alan Greenspan several times a week.

This article looks at Alan Greenspan's accomplishments while serving as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. His record shows that he has reduced and stabilized unemployment, the rate of inflation, and the number of recessions. Greenspan is criticized for doing nothing during the stock market bubble of the late 1990s. Greenspan worked in the Gerald Ford administration, left during Jimmy Carter's presidency, and returned when Ronald Reagan became president. Since Greenspan relied on his personal judgment, he will not leave a magic formula for his successor, Ben Bernanke.

This article focuses on the race for new energy resources as oil prices rise. Hybrid-electric cars are proven successes, and now automobile makers including Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Mazda, Mitsubishi and several others are showing off their models to compete with Honda and Toyota. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan said that the rising oil prices causing this hybrid-hype are bound to create a drag on the economy "from now on." Technological innovations have driven down the cost of alternate energy sources, but the problem is that technologies like hydrogen fuel cells may take years or decades before they are available in sufficient quantities.

The article profiles Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. He is the most revered figure in American finance who happens to be an aging price controller. Until the end of January the price of a short-term loan--the federal funds rate--will be whatever the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board decides to make it. Never mind the conundrum of a flatfish yield curve, where ten-year Treasurys now yield only six-tenths of a percentage point more than the funds rate. Alan Greenspan, 79, is a conundrum himself, personally: capitalist price controller, Ayn Rand-trained public servant and, most oxymoronic of all, beloved central banker. His imminent leave-taking presents an occasion both to appraise his 18-year Fed stewardship and, more important, to speculate on its consequences to all who hold, save or invest the U.S. dollar. Chairman Greenspan is unique in one way: The people have acclaimed him an oracle--a man who, unlike the rest of us, augurs and controls the course of future events. His prophesies rivet everyone, even if no one can parse what he's saying. His wife, broadcaster Andrea Mitchell, jokes that he had to propose three times before she understood him.

The article presents a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois on September 29, 2005. He discusses the ways in which economic policy both affects and is affected the increasing flexibility of the U.S. economy and the benefits of fostering and preserving a flexible economy.

Argues that the United States Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, pushed the right's agenda. Claim that Greenspan enlisted himself and the central bank in advancing the reform agenda of the Republican right; Criticism of Greenspan for endorsing the tax cuts of President George W. Bush and for embracing Bush's Social Security reform plans; Suggestion that the role of the Federal Reserve chairman is to be a nonpartisan actor that regulates economic growth for long-term stability; Suggestion that Greenspan acted too often in favor of special interests, financial power and wealth; History of the Federal Reserve chairman, starting with Marriner Eccles; Favor of conservatives for supply-side economics that help wealth holders; Criticism of Greenspan for his treatment of wages and prices; Reference to the book "Irrational Exuberance," by Robert Shiller.

Reports on the performance of the U.S. economy. Soaring oil prices despite a $3-per-barrel decrease; Drastic decrease in consumer confidence; Fall in capital-goods orders, according to the U.S. Commerce Dept.; Comparison to the "stagflationary" days of the mid-to-late 1970s; Strong productivity growth, which helps to protect the economy from stagflation; Decisions facing U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and other Fed officials.

Presents a speech by U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered to the Board's semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on February 16, 2005. Status of consumer spending in recent months; Factors that will shape the inflation outlook; Impact of lower-interest rates.

Looks at the impact of interest rates on economic policy in the U.S. Impact of the Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on interest rate policies; Report that some policy makers anticipate an interest rate increase; Economic impact of current slow-increase policies; Predictions for U.S. monetary policy in 2005.

Presents observations regarding the impact of interest rates on the gross domestic product and economic recovery in the United States. Views of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on how the current expansion is self-sustaining; Forecasting from the International Monetary Fund regarding world growth; Effects of U.S. recession on the global economy; Reference to the business cycles reflected by developing countries; Increase in demand for gas in the aftermath of the Asian economic crises.

Examines the question of how long the U.S. economy can sustain its remarkable gains in productivity. Fluctuations in productivity; Role of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and policymakers in discerning the economy's underlying rate of long-term productivity growth; Implications of a sustainable rate for the economy and Fed policy; Views of experts about how fast the productive capabilities of the economy are growing; Why sustainable productivity growth is a key indicator of the long-term health of the economy; Outlook for economic growth.

Profiles Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and the difficulty he will have to fend off inflation and not interrupt economic recovery. Speculation that Greenspan plans to raise federal funds a quarter-point, and eventually bring funds to neutral status; Need for job growth; Quotes from Greenspan; Statistics of job growth, gas price inflation, house value; Effect of possible terrorist attacks on the economy; List of possible candidates to take Greenspan's job when his career ends.

Presents a speech by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, delivered at the Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, on May 6, 2004. Limitations experienced by the U.S. economy; Impact of globalization on the economic frameworks of developing countries; Expansion of traded goods.

Discusses the U.S. economy and the possible rise of interest rates in the wake of strong economic indicator reports. How interest rates have edged up already; Reporting of new jobs, retail sales, core inflation and commodities price index; How overall consumer prices rose twice as fast in March 2004 than in January or February; Belief by some traders that the country has reached "the turn" which is when one economic era ends and another begins; Contention that life after "the turn" will look like a typical economic recovery; Restoration of pricing power; Belief that inflation will not fly out of control despite the recent rise in costs; Predictions of how Alan Greenspan will react to the improving reports.

Discusses the efforts of U.S. Presidential candidates to address economic issues such as the growth of federal deficits and spending. Consideration of how Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Americans of the problems associated with large budget deficits; Predictions from the administration of President George W. Bush that the deficit will decrease in half by 2009; Economic dangers associated with a tax increase; Impact of laws passed by the Budget Enforcement Act on nondefense discretionary spending; Forecasting about the future of defense spending. INSETS: Last of the big spenders?;So much for paying off the debt.

Examines the ending of the deflation period in the United States economy and looks at the new period of inflation. Percentage rates of the 10-year Treasury note and short-term rates by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and his central bank colleagues; Growth rates of the current economy in the third quarter; Strongest parts of the economy, such as the industrial materials market; Role that strong demand in China played to ending deflation; Projections for future inflation rates, including the possible needs to raise interest rates as the economy gathers steam; Pros and cons of inflation, such as higher company profits that will inspire more companies to expand and take on more workers.

Presents the text of a speech given by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, on July 15, 2003, which deals with the U.S. economy and monetary policy.

Discusses the U.S. economy and the possible effects that a war with Iraq will have on it. Reasons that financial markets worry, specifically with the terrorist threats and conflict between the United States and the United Nations; Fear of a war with Iraq that prevents the economy from moving into its next phase; Industries that are suffering from collateral damage; Economy that is posed to absorb shocks from a war in the Middle East; Concern that federal borrowing could be damaging; Role of Alan Greenspan; Evaluation of the U.S. dollar; Comparison to the Gulf War.

Comments on the achievements of Alan Greenspan as chairman of the United States Federal Reserve. Challenges facing the U.S. economy in 2002; Greenspan's success in presiding over a period of strong growth, low inflation, and low unemployment; Greenspan's survival from the stock market crash of 1987 to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; Criticism of Greenspan's performance following the collapse of the technology and telecommunication sectors; Concern that Greenspan may be running of policy options to deal with the current problems; Future of the Federal Reserve policy.

Presents a speech delivered by U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2002. Details of the Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Report; Need for implementing a sound policy on corporate governance.

Presents a speech by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, delivered to the Bay Area Council Conference in San Francisco, California on January 11, 2002. Impact of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and world economies; Signs of economic recovery, including inventory reductions; Thought that the availability of data electronically has stimulated the recovery; Role of economic policies; Optimism economics gains as a result of technology.

Focuses on recession in the United States. Strategy of Chairman Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and use monetary policy to prevent recession; Use of tax cuts of government spending to put extra money into the hands of consumers and businesses; View that the recession was not caused by a change in consumer spending, but in business spending; Discussion of the business cycle; Issues related to capital spending; Information on the model developed by economist Joseph Schumpeter.

Discusses the United States economy. Efforts of U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan to deal with the economic downturn by cutting interest rates; Discussion of consumer confidence and the outlook for its effect on the recession; Effect of terrorist attacks in the U.S. on the economy; Discussion of the Christmas shopping season; Outlook for the recovery of the economy.

The article discusses the challenges before the U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan has encountered only one recession during his 14 year stint as the world's most powerful central banker. But this time he has been put before an abrupt economic slowdown in the U.S. economy, which he is not able to understand. His experience has only taught him to cope with conventional slowdown. Therefore, this time he not able to solve this economic slowdown in the national economy.

Considers the prospect that the United States economic slowdown in early 2001 might not last long, and that the recovery may have already begun. Comparison to other economic downturns in Japan and in the United States; The optimistic assessment of the US economy by U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan; The risks for a recession which will remain, even if fears of recession fade.

Presents a speech given by United States Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, on February 13, 2001. Emphasis on the importance of the consumer when discussing the monetary policy of the nation; Steps taken by the Federal Open Market Committee toward an aggressive monetary policy.

The article focuses on prevailing political conditions in the U.S. and around the world, as of February 19, 2001. Political cross-dressing by the Democrats ended on January 25, 2001 in Washington D.C. when their erstwhile conservative patron Alan Greenspan, abruptly jilted them. Among Palestinians in the occupied territories, the prospect that political leader Ariel Sharon will be Israel's next prime minister is met with a shrug of the shoulders. The indifference is not from ignorance. Palestinians know well Sharon's history. They have always been the victims of it.

Focuses on consumer confidence in the United States economy as of February, 2001. Assertion that consumers' uneasiness is a result of the Media's focus on pessimistic forecasts; Statistics regarding the rate of unemployment, personal income, and home sales; Perception that U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's words and actions directly influence producer and consumer attitudes.

The subject of the book "Maestro," is Alan Greenspan and his thirteen- year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Greenspan, who will preside over the next meeting of Federal decision makers on December 19, is at the apogee of public esteem and celebrity, since the robust economy and booming financial markets of recent years have been widely attributed to his skillful management of money and credit at the central bank. The author Bob Woodward goes a step further and engages, uncharacteristically, in a literary flourish that resembles a rite of apotheosis. Father Greenspan is portrayed as a strong and trusted parent who supervises the children's interests; he loves everyone, notwithstanding the dour expression.

Focuses on the economic conditions in the United States, in preparation for the 2000 holiday season. Concerns over the slowdown in the economy, and the decline in value of several stocks; Role of U.S. Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan in controlling various economic indicators; Outlook. INSET: Dead cats that didn't bounce, by Paul J. Lim.

Presents a speech by Alan Greenspan, chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Board, given on December 5, 2000 at the America's Community Bankers Conference. Emphasis on structural changes in the economy and financial markets; Impact of the rise in information technology industries on the economy; How banks are affected by the economy.