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• Fed chair Janet Yellen says income inequality is un-American

  17 Oct 2014: Chair of the US Federal Reserve says increasing inequality runs contrary to American values and undermines mobility

• What kind of ‘war games’ is George Osborne playing in Washington?

  13 Oct 2014: The UK chancellor is joining the US treasury’s Jack Lew and other finance bosses to take part in a simulated banking crisis, designed to test our preparedness for another crash. But can there be any winners in this game?

• Carmen Segarra, the whistleblower of Wall Street

  5 Oct 2014: Gary Younge: One Federal Reserve employee’s refusal to play along with a rigged financial game has made her a true modern dissident

• US economy expands at fastest rate in nearly three years

  26 Sep 2014: Second-quarter rebound fuels expectations that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates before mid-2015

• Shares fall on global stock markets as worry over US interest rates ripples out

  25 Sep 2014: Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 250 points amid speculation that Federal Reserve is edging closer to increase in borrowing costs

• Financial markets seem to be in a world of their own

  18 Sep 2014: Mohamed El-Erian: Why are investors ignoring disappointing growth and global geopolitical tensions?

• Fed in no hurry to raise interest rates as it details 'gradual' plans to exit stimulus

  17 Sep 2014: Central bank to keep rates near zero ‘for a considerable time’ and says it will exit quantitative easing ‘in a gradual and predictable manner’

• US job growth slows to its lowest level this year

  5 Sep 2014:

  Analysts surprised by dip after figures over previous 12 months had risen by average of 212,000 jobs a month

• Russia and economic warfare: RIP the free market new world order

  31 Aug 2014:

  Larry Elliott: Russia faces damaging economic sanctions from the US and EU, but this also brings down the final curtain on capitalism's apparent victory in 1989

• Majority of economists back Federal Reserve policy on US economy

  25 Aug 2014: NABE interviewed 257 economists on Fed policy, of which 53% said Fed stimulus programmes on right track

• Billionaires and concubines: A playwright's satirical take on slow US economic recovery

  24 Aug 2014: The Jackson Hole Symposium gathers economists far away from civilisation while others write satires about recession and sex
  

• Fed chair Janet Yellen cautious in speech on 'damaged' US economy

  22 Aug 2014: Yellen says at Jackson Hole meeting that despite encouraging signs the bank will wait to decide on raising interest rates

• Do the Brics need their own development bank?

  14 Aug 2014:

  Barry Eichengreen: The Brics' dissatisfaction with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the role of the dollar in the global monetary system is understandable

• Little hope for unskilled workers, says US Federal Reserve deputy Fischer

  11 Aug 2014: Fischer, who was speaking at a conference in Sweden, is caught between left and right on US central bank's governing board

• Service sector boom puts US economy on track for strong second half of 2014

  5 Aug 2014: Growth fuelled by spending on new homes but is unlikely to endure after slowdown in jobs creation, say analysts

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