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Only a few months ago, the US Federal Reserve was telling markets the next move in interest rates was likely to be up.

Such a move would follow similar action taken by the Bank of England and US Federal Reserve.

Investors are watching to see whether the US Federal Reserve will also provide additional liquidity into the US system.

The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England are currently doing much more than working out this lesson.

Alan Greenspan, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, recently said it was possible the economy might slip into a recession this year.

Among the reasons: liquidity injections by central banks, especially the US Federal Reserve, have erred on the side of overkill.

The increasingly internationalised renminbi is a development that the US Federal Reserve is beginning to monitor.

The US Federal Reserve has already begun to do this with its special lending facilities and rescue of Bear.

Interest rate futures markets are now pricing in as a certainty that the US Federal Reserve will make at least one cut in rates by January.

The US Federal Reserve appears to be following suit, although on a smaller scale so far.

The US Federal Reserve's desperate attempts to keep America's economy from sinking are remarkable for at least two reasons.

The US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says America's creditworthiness is at risk if the country's borrowing limit is not raised.

These signs of rising tension came as the US Federal Reserve redoubled its efforts to ease conditions in the money markets.

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, laid out the issues in a thought-provoking speech last week.

One important precondition is the perceived risk, as seen by the Federal Open Market Committee FOMC of the US Federal Reserve, of inflation.

But unwise US fund managers have been berating Ben Bernanke, the US Federal Reserve chairman, for not bailing out the market.

The European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve are close to the limit of their capabilities.

The US Federal Reserve yesterday pushed back against congressional moves to strip it of its oversight over small banks.

In contrast, the US Federal Reserve and Bank of England have been led through the crisis by economics professors.

The question is whether the People's Bank can do any better than the US Federal Reserve or Bank of Japan at deflating a credit bubble.

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that the outlook for the US economy remains "unusually uncertain" .

The first and easiest step to counter these problems would be to end the US Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing.

For the time being, few people expect the US Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates from their historic lows close to zero.

The ECB had largely stood aside this week as the US Federal Reserve took action to calm escalating pressures in US financial markets.

But the US Federal Reserve's semi-undertaking to hold rates until the middle of 2013 seems a pretty cack-handed way of doing this.

A second rally started in August, once the US Federal Reserve cut the rate at which it lends to banks.

Currency traders are asking a question: if the US Federal Reserve is not concerned about the dollar's current levels, why should they be?

It is the first significant deal since the US Federal Reserve lifted a ban on Citigroup making big acquisitions.

Indeed, the US Federal Reserve this week affirmed it would keep overnight interest rates anchored near zero until the middle of 2013.

The US Federal Reserve has also predicted that the economy will continue to shrink, pushing the unemployment rate even higher.

The US Federal Reserve is currently not one of them, but it is discussing this possibility.

Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, expected the markets to self-regulate in their own interests.

But those complaints have diminished as the US Federal Reserve has signalled an end to quantitative easing.

Monetary tightening is less obviously necessary in high-income countries, though the US Federal Reserve may have cut too far.

Mr Greenspan practised the liquidity sorcery for two decades at the US Federal Reserve without causing inflation.

This, he suggests, is the "nightmare scenario" keeping Ben Bernanke and colleagues at the US Federal Reserve awake.

Entering a second after me is Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

This will signal job growth, stable currencies, a stop to US Federal Reserve quantitative easing.

Wall Street banks are reaping outsized profits by trading with the US Federal Reserve, the Financial Times reported.

But base metals were mixed, undermined by worries about the strength of the US economy ahead of today's US Federal Reserve meeting.

To my knowledge, no one has proposed waterboarding the US Federal Reserve.

Finally, the US Federal Reserve has reopened swap lines, to provide foreign banks with access to dollar funding.

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, this week hinted that a third round of quantitative easing may be possible.

The discipline of the peg effectively cedes monetary policy to the US Federal Reserve.

Five years ago, central banks led by the US Federal Reserve fretted and cut short-term interest rates aggressively.

We even have Ben Bernanke, a scholar of the Depression, at the helm of the US Federal Reserve.

The drop in raw materials prices was welcomed by the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and other central banks.

The US Federal Reserve was right when it recently injected massive amounts of liquidity.

The US Federal Reserve is too besieged to act as a global central bank.

Marginal stuff perhaps, but for anything more aggressive the US Federal Reserve would need to fire the starting gun.

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, warned yesterday against expecting too much from the G20 summit on April 2.

Every day, new groups of nations join the movement to defeat the US Federal Reserve and its ally, the dark secret government.

The reason that such bear-market bounces repeat is the US Federal Reserve's low interest rate.

Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has said that "his view of the world, his ideology, was not right" .

The US Federal Reserve followed suit although in far less dramatic fashion.

The US Federal Reserve and Bank of England have also swung into crisis-fighting mode.

The state does not trust the US Federal Reserve.

The US Federal Reserve supports the plan, he writes, because it recognises that the dollar will be savaged by a bout of hyperinflation.

The writer is the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

Global policymakers are focused on the US Federal Reserve's next steps.

The yield is well above the 2. 50 per cent seen last month when the US Federal Reserve announced it would start buying Treasury debt.

Imagine what the world's monetary policy would be if the People's Bank of China, rather than the US Federal Reserve, set the global agenda.

The problem for the US Federal Reserve is different.

So irrational is the exuberance in China that even Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, is worried.

PBoC reserves have now risen to $2, 100bn, about one-third more than the reserve balances at the US Federal Reserve.

Paul, a longtime critic of the US Federal Reserve, is the incoming chairman of a House subcommittee on monetary policy.

What does the US Federal Reserve plan to do next?

The US Federal Reserve holds interest rates at 5. 25% for the third successive month, in a widely expected move.

The US Federal Reserve has been slightly different.

If Mr Trichet thinks the US Federal Reserve is overreacting, he has a point.

But the US Federal Reserve should hold steady for now.

Sure, the US Federal Reserve, for example, talks about a strong dollar.

The US Federal Reserve yesterday slashed interest rates from 1 per cent to a new range of 0-0. 25 per cent.

The US Federal Reserve last week cut its target interest rate to between zero and 0. 25 per cent, from one per cent.

Last Friday, the US Federal Reserve reported a record quantity of cash on the books of US businesses (over $2tn).

The peg leaves Hong Kong subject to the interest rate whims of the US Federal Reserve.

The writer is former chairman of the US Federal Reserve and author of The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

The writer is a former chairman of the US Federal Reserve and is now president of Greenspan Associates

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Alan Greenspan, chairman of US Federal Reserve 1987- 2006