<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Federal Reserve</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/federalreserve?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><description>Federal Reserve</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan Says He Expects Tax Increases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8101-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8101-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said yesterday, for the first time explicitly, that he expects tax increases to be part of any eventual agreement to reduce the federal budget deficit.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan Renews Warning on Deficits]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6620-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6620-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said today that his support for tax cuts in early 2001 unintentionally encouraged policies that helped swing the federal budget from surplus to record deficits. In addition, he expected tax increases to be part of any bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation Worried Fed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48257-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48257-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve officials had become more concerned about rising price pressures by the time of their last policymaking meeting three weeks ago, but they did not think they would have to pick up the pace of interest rate increases to restrain inflation.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed to Keep 'Deliberate' Rate Pace, Official Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35818-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35818-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Inflation bears watching but is under control, allowing the central bank to continue raising its benchmark short-term interest rate at a "deliberate" pace, a top Federal Reserve policymaker said yesterday.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Picks Fed Official As Economic Adviser]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20164-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20164-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush will nominate Federal Reserve Governor Ben S. Bernanke to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the White House said yesterday, a move that would help fill out the president's economic team as it undertakes an ambitious second-term agenda.]]></description><author> Neil Irwin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Pushes Rates Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55972-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55972-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve, noting rising price pressures, nudged up its key short-term interest rate Tuesday for the seventh time since June and signaled it will keep raising it in coming months.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan: '01 Tax Cuts  Were Justified]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36514-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36514-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan Tuesday defended his support of tax cuts in 2001 after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) suggested that he bears some blame for helping create the federal budget deficits that followed those cuts.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Democrats Say Greenspan  Has Gone From 'Maestro' to Partisan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8519-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8519-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Questioning the wisdom of Alan Greenspan in political Washington is akin to challenging the integrity of the pope in Rome, so figures in both parties agreed yesterday that the top Senate Democrat's description of the Federal Reserve Board chairman as a "political hack" was a blunder.]]></description><author> Dana Milbank and Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan: Tax Reform Could Boost Growth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3689-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3689-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Fed chief said tax rules should be simplified, offering no specific changes but recommending broadly that the panel seek to keep tax rates as low as possible and make the rules predictable.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan Warns of Economic Stagnation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A543-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A543-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve Chairman Wednesday urged Congress to act soon to reduce future Social Security and Medicare benefits, warning that growing federal budget deficits threaten to cause economic "stagnation" in coming decades.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan Silent About 'Measured' Increases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33329-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33329-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan signaled that the Fed will continue raising its benchmark short-term interest rate to keep inflation under control, but he omitted any guidance about the pace of future increases.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go Slow on Borrowing, Greenspan Cautions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27890-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27890-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned Congress Wednesday to go slow in borrowing to create personal Social Security accounts, after the White House suggested that it might accept an increase in payroll-tax revenue to bolster the system's finances.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson and Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Job Growth Pleases Investors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A72-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A72-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stocks <br> Friday's jobs report disappointed economists but cheered investors, giving Wall Street its best week of the new year.]]></description><author> Jerry Knight</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[30-Year Mortgage Rates Dip to 5.63%]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63920-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63920-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Rates on 30-year mortgages fell for a fifth consecutive week, but some shorter-term rates edged up a bit, influenced by the Federal Reserve's decision to raise a key rate.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greenspan:   Trade Deficit 'Poised to Stabilize']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63069-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63069-2005Feb4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan predicted today that the U.S. trade deficit will level off and possibly shrink in months and years to come, in a speech that took a less alarmist view of the trade gap than the Fed chief has offered in the past.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Increases Key Interest Rate to 2.5%]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57634-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57634-2005Feb2.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve officials raised a key short-term interest rate Wednesday and indicated they will continue lifting rates gradually this year to keep inflation in check as the economy grows.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Bank President Warns On Deficit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8199-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8199-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A top Federal Reserve official has urged the White House and Congress to restrain the U.S. budget deficit, warning that its continued growth poses risks to international financial markets.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fed Minutes Reveal More Worry About Inflation Threat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48735-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48735-2005Jan4.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some Federal Reserve policymakers worried last month that inflation dangers were growing and that low interest rates might be encouraging excessively risky investments, including speculative home buying.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[White House May Pick Bernanke for Council]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2004Dec16.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Board member Ben S. Bernanke may be tapped to lead economic team and sell key features of the Bush administration's second-term agenda.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Federal Reserve Raises Benchmark a 5th Time]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A286-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A286-2004Dec14.html?nav=rss_business/specials/federalreserve</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:03:36 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal Reserve officials raised a key short-term interest rate Tuesday for the fifth time this year, and indicated they will gradually move rates higher next year to keep inflation under control as the economy expands.]]></description><author> Nell Henderson</author></item></channel></rss>