The Fed and Treasury

Budget Battles

  • What You Never Knew About Today’s Subprime Auto Loans

    By Carrick Mollenkamp, Reuters

    At car dealers across the United States, loans to subprime borrowers are surging, up 18 percent in 2012 from a year earlier, to 6.6 million borrowers, according to credit-reporting agency Equifax Inc...

  • The Secret Player Who Could End ‘Too Big To Fail’

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    The debate is raging on Capitol Hill over whether the era of “Too Big To Fail” banks has truly ended, but the one player designed to tackle that question has stayed relatively quiet. Few Americans...

  • Should the Fed Worry about Wealth Inequality?

    By Robert Frank, CNBC

    The gap between the wealthy and the rest of America is a hot-button issue in Washington–especially in the White House and Congress. And especially during battles over taxes. But recently, the Federal...

  • Bernanke Takes Center Stage

    Fed Flexibility: Bernanke’s Key to the Economy

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Few would describe Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as resembling a yogi. The former Princeton University professor never ends his remarks with “Namaste” or strolls through his neighborhood...

  • Bernanke Says Fed Will Maintain Easy Money Policy

    By Reuters

    The Federal Reserve on Wednesday pressed forward with its aggressive efforts to stimulate the U.S. economy, saying it would take into account risks posed by its policies but also how much work still...