Jason Lange
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Crumbling bridges? Fret not America, it's not that badJanuary 31, 2018
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump called out the nation's crumbling infrastructure and called for more spending on bridges and roads."Together...
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Fed nominee Goodfriend: Current Fed policy 'more or less' on right courseJanuary 23, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Board nominee Marvin Goodfriend on Tuesday defended his past focus on inflation, saying that while earlier warnings about runaway prices were "absolutely"...
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Don't count your chickens; NAFTA's end could hit U.S. poultry hardJanuary 23, 2018
PALESTINE, Texas/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Workers at the Sanderson Farms plant in Palestine, Texas, are cutting up chickens for export to Mexico, a market that has become a pillar of the town's...
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Fed's Rosengren urges study of creating target range for inflationJanuary 8, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should consider changing its inflation target to allow for an acceptable range of inflation rates, Boston Federal Reserve President Eric Rosengren said on...
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Fed's Powell had scant enthusiasm for QE3, transcripts showJanuary 5, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jerome Powell, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. central bank starting next month, backed the Federal Reserve's third bond-buying program only...
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Factbox: Fed staff forecasts from FOMC minutesJanuary 3, 2018
For a full text, see http://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htmDEC 12-13 FOMC: Minutes released on Jan. 3:"The U.S. economic projection prepared by the staff for the December FOMC...
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Fed policymakers see future rate rises guided by inflation, fiscal stimulusJanuary 3, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers showed worry over the fate of currently low inflation and saw recent tax changes as providing a boost to consumer spending, according to the...
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Trump's push to cut federal jobs has modest impact, mostly in defense December 12, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's campaign to shrink the "bloated federal bureaucracy" so far has made a small dent in the federal workforce, and that largely because of a decline in...
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Richmond Fed chooses Thomas Barkin as presidentDecember 4, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on Monday named Thomas Barkin, an executive at global consulting firm McKinsey & Co, as its next president, a position that will have a...
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U.S. factory activity cools, with employment index edging lowerDecember 1, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A measure of U.S. factory activity fell more than expected in November as a gauge of employment cooled, but the index continued to point to strengthening manufacturing...
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Fed chair nominee Powell sees no too-big-to-fail banksNovember 28, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Improvements in U.S. bank regulation and supervision since the 2007-09 financial crisis have eliminated the problem of "too-big-to-fail" banks, Federal Reserve chair nominee...
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Fed chair nominee Powell pledges to 'respond decisively' to economic threatsNovember 28, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve should "respond decisively" to any new economic crisis, Fed chair nominee Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, positioning...