Fed chief warns of &#39;painful&#39; decisions
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WASHINGTON - The nation will face &quot;abrupt and painful&quot; consequences unless the government moves quickly to fix the finances of Social Security and Medicare, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke said on Thursday that the U.S. economic outlook had  worsened, and more interest rate cuts may be needed.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday that risks from inflation or a worse-than-expected housing slump could further complicate things for an economy that already is in slowdown mode.
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The Federal Reserve's move to slash interest rates by a half-percentage point signals that Chairman Ben Bernanke, fearing broad damage from recent market turmoil, preferred to risk doing too much rather than too little, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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Federal Reserve chief offers insights into conditions strained by housing and credit crises.
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Ben Bernanke has tried hard not to follow his predecessor Alan Greenspan into the political arena by commenting on fiscal policy, but the Federal Reserve chief will find it difficult to stay above the fray this week.
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Gentle Ben had better get aggressive, and make a 50-basis point cut in the fed funds rate, or the market will plunge.
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The Federal Reserve is considering  several steps to make its deliberations more transparent, but  are likely to delay a decision on one of Chairman Ben  Bernanke's goals: an explicit inflation target, the Wall Street  Journal reported on Thursday.
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The problems also greatly increased uncertainty about the economyâs outlook, prompting Fed policymakers to keep their options open about their next move, meeting minutes show.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered a blunt warning Friday that foreign investors might get sick of subsidizing the nation&#39;s widening trade and budget deficits, remarks that caused US financial markets to tremble.
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US Representative John Spratt of South Carolina said the Federal Reserve should ``go lightly&#39;&#39; on raising the benchmark interest rate because of the economy.
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Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said his successors at the U.S. central bank should be cautious about cutting interest rates because of inflation risks, and he forecast home prices will drop further, according to interviews published on Sunday.
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Federal Reserve Bank officials said on Monday financial turmoil has increased risks facing the U.S. economy, but comments by others suggested there was still debate about how quickly the central bank would need to act.
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Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues at the Federal Reserve will decide today whether to cut interest rates for the second time in a week -- and find themselves in the difficult position of having either to risk cutting rates too much or risk disappointing financial markets and spurring more panic.
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The Fed chief said today that the central bank âstands ready to take additional actions as neededâ to limit the effect of the financial market disorder on the economy.
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San Francisco Federal Reserve  Bank President Janet Yellen said on Monday that financial  turmoil had &quot;appreciably&quot; increased risks facing the U.S.  economy, but other Fed officials said it was unclear if the  economy had taken a turn for the worse.
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US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke warns that the outlook for the US economy is deteriorating.