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Has Federal Reserve policy been able to break the “adverse feedback loop”?: Fed Policy in the Financial Crisis: Arresting the Adverse Feedback Loop by Danielle DiMartino Booth and Jessica J. Renier, Economic Letter , Vol. 4, No. 7, September 2009, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas : An adverse feedback loop takes hold when a weakening financial system and a slowing economy feed off each other. A crisis or shock curtails lending, hobbling the real economy; the more production and e

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Bob Eisenbeis is Cumberland’s Chief Monetary Economist. Prior to joining Cumberland Advisors he was the Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Bob is presently a member of the U.S. Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Financial Economist Roundtable. His bio is found at www.cumber.com. He may be reached at Bob.Eisenbeis@cumber.com. ~~~ It has become fashionable for commentators to bash economists for having missed the financial crisi

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by Xandra Torres Is this MORTGE MELT DOWN affecting YOU, your FAMILY, your FRIENDS, your STREET or your TOWN? When you call your BANK and ask for HELP who’s best interest do you think they have yours or theirs? Mortgage lenders don’t try to rework most home loans in foreclosure because it would possibly mean losing money, a study released yesterday by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston concludes. The Boston Fed’s findings suggest the Obama administration’s major effort to resolve the forecl

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On the Economic Outlook and the Commitment to Price Stability Dennis P. Lockhart President and Chief Executive Officer Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Rotary Club of Nashville Nashville, Tennessee July 20, 2009 For my remarks this afternoon, I’ll talk about how I see the economy at this juncture, the near- and medium-term outlook, and the growing concern about inflation. Let me add at this point my usual disclaimer that my remarks are my thoughts alone and may not necessarily

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The Fed’s San Francisco branch has published a summary of a economic outlook speech given by its CEO Janet Yellen in which she called the economic crisis “like a hundred-year flood—a disaster of the highest order.” We offer real estate snippets of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco CEO’s speech , notably the “third act — in which the economy hopefully recovers … Right now, we’re like a patient in intensive care whose condition has stabilized and whose fever is just starting to com

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