Don't fear U.S. recession, stock falls: policy-makers
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Policy-makers assured nervous investors on Friday that the United States was not heading into recession and stock market losses did not warrant central bank intervention.
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"Because we can't forecast crises or events like the stock market crash in 1987 or 9/11, we must be prepared and capable of absorbing shocks"  Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday that U.S. interest rates are low, but that rates are low all over the world. via Scotsman.com
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Hopes that healthy local economies might escape the force of a U.S. recession evaporated and fear gripped investors.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.  - High oil prices will probably  brake U.S. growth but will not derail the economy provided  there is not another sharp spike upward, a top Federal Reserve  policymaker said on Tuesday.
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ST. LOUIS  - The Federal Reserve is monitoring growth and inflation risks and it is too soon to tell if housing troubles will push the economy into recession, one of its top policy-makers said on Wednesday.
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ST. LOUIS  - The U.S. appears likely to avoid an economic slowdown, and Federal Reserve interest rate targets are well-positioned to stabilize the economy, St. Louis Fed Bank President William Poole said on Monday.
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Recent credit market turmoil has  increased downside risks for the economy, but the U.S. Federal  Reserve would refrain from taking action to bail out investors  who made bad decisions, top policy-makers said on Thursday.
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Housing activity has slowed from  recent years but the dragdown should not lead to a recession,  mortgage finance company Freddie Mac  said on Thursday  in its monthly economic outlook.
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The United States economy is unlikely to slip into recession, Abby Joseph Cohen, chief investment strategist at Goldman Sachs, said in remarks published on Friday.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 29 -- Stocks rallied Wednesday as investors took comfort in Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's words that policymakers were "prepared to act as needed" to ease the impact of the financial markets' turmoil on the economy.
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The White House is betting that the steps it has taken to address the housing and financial crises will be enough to avert a recession without resorting to a major tax cut or new spending, as leading economists in both parties have urged, senior administration officials said.
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Stocks fell on Friday on concerns that a White House effort to boost the economy would not be enough to forestall a recession.
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Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson acknowledged the United States is experiencing a âsignificantâ housing market downturn but the economy should avoid recession.
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Federal Reserve  policy-makers on Friday said inflation remained a risk to the  U.S. economy, even as data showing factory activity falling for  the first time in 3-1/2 years indicated growth was slowing.
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U.S. stocks slipped on Wednesday after  several companies issued profit warnings, while Fed Chairman  Alan Greenspan's remarks that the economy was pulling out of a  summer soft patch did little to quell expectations for a rate  hike later this month.
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Housing activity has slowed from recent years but the dragdown should not lead to a recession, mortgage finance company Freddie Mac  said on Thursday in its monthly economic outlook.
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Recent credit market turmoil has increased downside risks for the economy, but the U.S. Federal Reserve would refrain from taking action to bail out investors who made bad decisions, top policy-makers said on Thursday.