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BusinessWeek November 5, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: The Fed: A Whole New Playbook for Tightening Now that growth is picking up, it'll soon be time to sop up excess funds. But given the unconventional easing of the past year, the old methods no longer apply.
Finance & Development June 2009	Uncharted Territory When aggressive monetary policy combats a crisis. This chart shows how radically policy thinking has changed in the past century.
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 Rich Miller	The Mystery Of The Sleeping Long Bonds Asian currency manipulation or drags on U.S. growth could be setting the market and the economy up for an abrupt adjustment to low long-term bond rates.
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BusinessWeek November 25, 2009 James C. Cooper	Business Outlook: The Danger in Tying the Fed's Hands Near term, inflation is under wraps. Down the road, however, the Fed's credibility as an inflation fighter could suffer if Congress exerts control over monetary policy - and that spells trouble.
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National Real Estate Investor June 26, 2003 Parke Chapman	Fed Cuts Rates Again The Federal Reserve has slashed a key short-term interest rate by one-quarter percent, bringing the rate to its lowest level in nearly 50 years. That one-quarter percent cut was conservative: many observers predicted that the Fed would bring rates down by an aggressive half percent.
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The Motley Fool June 5, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger	Parsing the Fed's Statement: Experts Weigh In The Fed released some words; that means experts must analyze them.
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Bank Systems & Technology January 7, 2005 Ivan Schneider	Cut the Fee, or Wait and See? Check 21 requires the Federal Reserve to report back to Congress in April 2007 on the change in length of hold times. But the CCAF Act would accelerate that process and instruct the Fed to reduce hold times
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