Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve started a rate-cutting cycle on Sept. 18, 2025, lowering its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points (bps) to a range of 4.75% to 5%. The cut was the first since March 2020 after the Fed raised interest rates to a 23-year high point to cool the economy and quell inflation. The Fed cut rates two more times in 2024, each by 25 basis points. It has not cut interest rates so far in 2025.
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Fed’s Hoenig: Allow Institutions to Fail
Mar 09, 2009Troubled financial institutions at times ought to be allowed to fail and their operations sold off, said Thomas Hoenig, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, in a speech Friday in Omaha, Neb. “We understandably would prefer not to ‘nationalize’ these businesses, but in reacting as we are, we nevertheless are drifting into a situation where institutions are being nationalized piecemeal with no resolution of the crisis,” he said.
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Role of Subprime in Housing Boom Exaggerated: St. Louis Fed
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Fed Buys $59 Billion in Agency MBS
Mar 06, 2009 -
Wells Fargo Slashes Dividend Amid Rising Loan Losses
Mar 06, 2009 -
Fed’s Short-Term Economic Outlook Darkens
Mar 05, 2009 -
TARP Investments Bleed Another $5 Billion: Report
Mar 03, 2009 -
Fed Launches Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility
Mar 03, 2009 -
Fed’s Rosengren: Get Bad Assets off Bank Books
Mar 02, 2009 -
Fed Issues Cease and Desist Against FSB Bancorp
Mar 02, 2009 -
AIG to Restructure, Receive Up to $30B More From Treasury
Mar 02, 2009 -
For Fed, Record Purchase Week of $25B MBS
Feb 27, 2009
