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The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said the world would be a lot better if emerging markets simply dropped their dollar pegs. This means they would stop importing U.S. inflation by matching the Fed rate cut for rate cut. In a speech earlier this week Kohn said, "In those countries where strong commodity demands are associated with rapid growth in aggregate demand that outstrips potential...
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Real Time Economics (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Six-thirty the morning after an FOMC meeting is an unusual time for a top Federal Reserve official to break new ground on monetary policy. But Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn did just that Thursday, suggesting that it may be up to central banks in developing countries, and not necessarily those in industrialized economies like the [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said on Thursday that rising energy and food prices have hit headline inflation, but this has only seeped into inflation expectations by a little bit so far.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said on Thursday that rising energy and food prices have hit headline inflation, but this has only seeped into inflation expectations by a little bit so far.
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Dismal (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said Thursday that headline inflation has shown only a few tentative signs of filtering through to core prices or to longer-term inflation expectations. In a at the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy in Fr...
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CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn (shown) says developing nations could stabilize commodity prices by slowing demand growth.NEW YORK (AP) -- Growing economies could contain inflation by curbing their appetite for commodities, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve said in a speech Thursday.Donald L. Kohn, speaking at the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy in Frankfurt,...
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CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn (shown) says developing nations could stabilize commodity prices by slowing demand growth.NEW YORK (AP) -- Growing economies could contain inflation by curbing their appetite for commodities, the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve said in a speech Thursday.Donald L. Kohn, speaking at the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy in Frankfurt,...
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Real Time Economics (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Wall Street investment firms have broadly made efforts to strengthen their liquidity and capital positions in the wake of the collapse of Bear Stearns, Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said in prepared remarks for a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing, though a number of areas of concern still remain for federal regulators. Here are some excerpts [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said on Thursday that the nation's financial system was in sounder shape now and that banks have improved their capital positions.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn offerd only faint praise for U.S. investment banks, saying that they had learned some lessons in the ongoing financial market turmoil and were hard at work shoring up their foundation of liquidity and capital.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn on Thursday offered only faint praise for U.S. investment banks, saying that they had learned some lessons in the on-going financial market turmoil and were hard at work shoring up their foundation of liquidity and capital. In testimony to a Senate panel, Kohn said the Fed was monitoring the emergency lending...
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Real Time Economics (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
... market effect of the second-most influential official over the last 18 months, Fed Vice Chairman Donald Kohn . “It may be that the markets looked increasingly to the “heavyweights” on the FOMC to deliver the policy message, discounting the comments from other FOMC members,” Macroeconomic Advisers’ Laurence Meyer , who is a former Fed governor, and Brian Sack , a former Fed economist,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
By Alister BullWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The financial market impact of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks has soared since the start of 2007 as he telegraphed crucial shifts in monetary policy, a report on Tuesday showed.Only second in command Donald Kohn came close, possibly in a deliberate bid by the pair to exert leadership during the country's subprime mortgage crisis,...
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Business Times Asiaone (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
(CHATHAM) Federal Reserve vice-chairman Donald Kohn said the central bank needs to counter any sign that the public is beginning to expect faster increases in consumer prices.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A steady rise in energy prices has fueled an inflationary psychology in the United States and could be a problem if it does not reverse, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn said on Wednesday.
