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Having spent the last month or so poring over writings on last-resort lending,* and especially writings dealing with the recent crisis and its aftermath, with the particular aim of discovering the best means for supplying last-resort credit when it's...

The Federal Reserve thinks it will be appropriate to raise interest rates "relatively soon," according to minutes of its most recent meeting released Wednesday. This release covered the meeting that was held November 1-2, a week before the US election...

Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech is out. The full speech is below. The basic gist seems to be: If things don't get better Fed can do more asset purchases, as past QE programs have worked. But there's little in there about extroardinary new measures...

Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the problems with "too big to fail"--the policy idea that certain financial institutions are too large to face the bankruptcy or failure and...

Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Here are the following closes for gold and silver today: Gold: $1231.10 down $9.20   (comex closing time) Silver: $16.86 down 21 cents  (comex closing time) In the access market 5:15 pm Gold $1233.50 silver $...