Federal Reserve Blog

What was unsaid by Bernanke might be more notable than what he actually expressed outright.

The Federal Reserve, taking a fresh look at the economic tea leaves, has decided that a cocktail of record-low interest rates and billions of dollars in monthly asset purchases is still warranted.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke won’t attend the annual Jackson Hole conference in late August.

The Beige Book reports moderate economic growth across the country. That’s actually an improvement from the modest growth reported previously.

The Fed dissed me. And lots of other people, too.

The official policy statement released after the Fed meeting repeated that low rates “will be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6.5 percent.”

Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve’s potential next leader, told a group of financial journalists that a “revolution” has occurred in the way the Fed communicates.

Low interest rates will be a fact of financial life for another two or three years, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in his first news conference of the year.

Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, is maintaining the target for the benchmark federal funds rate at between zero percent and 0.25 percent.

Since the beginning of the year, the market has been on a tear. There are three ways Federal Reserve policy has contributed to that.