Economic speed limit may have fallen: Bernanke
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GREENVILLE, South Carolina  - The U.S. economy's   noninflationary speed limit has likely dropped due to slower   labor force growth, but productivity should stay strong,   Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday threw his weight behind proposals for near-term actions to stimulate economic growth to ward off an election-year recession -- but warned such a plan could do more harm than good unless put together quickly.
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Federal Reserve economists think aging  workers and a shrinking workweek mean the maximum sustainable  U.S. economic growth rate may slow, Fed Governor Frederic  Mishkin said on Thursday.
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Federal Reserve economists think aging workers and a shrinking workweek mean the maximum sustainable U.S. economic growth rate may slow, Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin said on Thursday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday estimated that the decline in housing construction could reduce gross domestic product growth later this year by a percentage point.
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Rising incomes should support the   U.S. economy even as the housing market slows and consumers   lose the boost they were getting from home equity, Federal   Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter released on   Wednesday.
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The U.S. economy is poised to expand at a moderate rate and "uncomfortably high" core inflation should slow, but inflation risks are "primarily to the upside," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.
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Bloomberg - Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke should have been quicker to cut interest rates to try to avert a recession.
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Federal Reserve Board Governor  Randall Kroszner said on Wednesday the U.S. central bank must  consider the lags with which interest rate changes affect the  economy, saying it looked set to slow.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben  Bernanke, in a letter to Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New  York, said he did not think caps on investment limits for  Fannie Mae  and Freddie Mac  needed to be lifted.
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Rising incomes should support the  U.S. economy even as the housing market slows and consumers  lose the boost they were getting from home equity, Federal  Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter released on  Wednesday.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has warned the outlook for the US economy is deteriorating.
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A slowdown could keep  the U.S. economy from growing at a sustainable pace into  sometime next year, San Francisco Federal Reserve President  Janet Yellen said on Tuesday.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday that Chinese policy-makers risk losing control of their economy unless they let their yuan currency rise in value and strengthen their financial system.
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The Federal Reserve can slow down the pace of interest rate rises if the economy grows less rapidly than it expects, Philadelphia Fed President Anthony Santomero said on Friday.
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GREENVILLE, South Carolina  - The speed at which   the U.S. economy can grow without risking inflation has likely   dropped due to slower labor force growth, but the productivity   gains that help restrain inflation should stay strong, Federal   Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.
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A slowdown in the US economy could justify a pause in the Federal Reserve&#39;s interest rate increases, Fed Governor Ben Bernanke said on Thursday.