Media coverage of the economy can affect it: Fed paper
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One of the hardest economic indicators to measure is the public mood. But it matters a lot, and that mood can be affected by media coverage of the economy, according to an economic paper from the Federal Reserve
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The public can now "blog" the chief  economist of the International Monetary Fund on such matters as  global growth or turmoil in financial markets.
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The U.S. economy has come through  its recent soft patch and the Federal Reserve still has some  way to go to restore interest rates to more normal levels, Fed  officials said on Monday.
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Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is hitting the airwaves promoting his new book, but his comments in recent interviews about the possibility of a recession might be scarier to IT folks than anything in the new tome.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve, under first-year Chairman Ben Bernanke, appears close to achieving the tricky maneuver of steering the U.S. economy to a soft landing.
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Is the Federal Reserve less sanguine about the effect the oil-price spike will have on the economy? Given the run-up in crude prices -- and rising fears that growth could be slowed measurably -- the markets
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The news media have always helped shape public perception of markets. But exactly how much the press influences mass consumer behavior is subject to debate.
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Forbes National Editor Robert Lenzner on the Fed's rate cut and what it means for the economy.
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Longtime viewers of my television program know that I've been banging the recession drum for a while now, but the truth is that an economy as large and complex as ours doesn't just collapse overnight. It happens slowly and methodically, with plenty of warning signs along the way.
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It has an avowedly quirky style and sometimes controversial views. Yet as magazines worldwide sigh about poor circulation and scarce advertising revenue, current affairs bible The Economist is set for a major celebration this week.
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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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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen said on Monday that current financial market turmoil has added "appreciably" to downside risks for the U.S. economy.
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U.S. news organizations are feeling  pressured to find radical new ways to make money as their  financial outlooks worsen despite embracing new technology, a  study released on Monday said.
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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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Lowering interest rates Â the Federal Reserve's tool for bracing the wobbly economy Â is not without risk.
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The U.S. economy has come through its recent soft patch and the Federal Reserve still has some way to go to restore interest rates to more normal levels, Fed officials said on Monday.
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Financial market turbulence has  noticeably hurt housing activity across the United States in  recent weeks but other sectors of the economy have so far been  spared, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.