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Speeches of Federal Reserve Officials

December 14, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Remarks on receipt of honorary degree
Convocation, New York University, New York, New York

December 6, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Linkages between Internal Capital Measures and Regulatory Capital Requirements
At the International Center for Business Information's Risk Management Conference: Basel Summit, Geneva, Switzerland

December 5, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Economic Growth: Lessons from the Sioux Falls Experience
At a Rotary Club luncheon, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

December 2, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
International imbalances
Before the Advancing Enterprise Conference, London, England

December 2, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Budget policy
To the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Policy Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (videotaped remarks)

November 30, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Recent Developments in Regulatory Capital
At the Standard & Poor’s North American Financial Institutions Conference, New York, New York

November 29, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
(on November 18)
Recent Changes in Household Finances and Home Lending
To the monthly meeting of the Epsilon Boule Fraternity for African-American Leaders, Washington, D.C.

November 28, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
(on November 8)
Financial Regulation: Seeking the Middle Way
To the Fourth Joint Central Bank Research Conference on Risk Management and Systemic Risk, Frankfurt, Germany
(via videoconference)

November 15, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Asset Price Levels and Volatility: Causes and Implications
To the Banco de Mexico International Conference, Mexico City, Mexico

November 15, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Perspectives on the Development of a Unified National Payments System in the United States
At the First EU/U.S. Retail Banking Forum Conference, Brussels, Belgium

November 14, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Stability and Economic Growth: The Role of the Central Bank
Before the Banco de Mexico's 80th Anniversary International Conference, Mexico City (via videoconference)

November 7, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
A Look at Fair Lending through the Lens of the New HMDA Data
Before the Consumer Bankers Association 2005 Fair Lending Conference, Arlington, Virginia

November 3, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Monetary Credibility, Inflation, and Economic Growth
At the Cato Institute 23rd Annual Monetary Conference on Monetary Institutions & Economic Development, Washington, D.C.

October 27, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Opening remarks
At the dedication of the Houston Branch building of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston, Texas

October 26, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Remarks on receipt of the Truman Medal for Economic Policy
Before the Truman Medal Award and Economics Conference, Kansas City, Missouri

October 19, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
The Economic Outlook
At the 2006 Global Economic and Investment Outlook Conference, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

October 18, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Economic Outlook for the United States
To the Metropolitan Trenton African American Chamber of Commerce, Trenton, New Jersey

October 17, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Energy
Before the Japan Business Federation, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Tokyo, Japan

October 13, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Update on the U.S. Economy and Fiscal Outlook
At the Albers School of Business and Economics, Executive Speakers Series, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington
Governor Mark W. Olson presented identical remarks at the Fraser Institute Roundtable Luncheon, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on October 12, 2005

October 12, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Update on the U.S. Economy and Fiscal Outlook
At the Fraser Institute Roundtable Luncheon, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Governor Mark W. Olson presented identical remarks at the Albers School of Business and Economics, Executive Speakers Series, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, on October 13, 2005

October 12, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Regulatory Issues
At the National Bankers Association Annual Convention, Beverly Hills, California

October 12, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Economic flexibility
Before the National Italian American Foundation, Washington, D.C.

October 11, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Globalization, Inflation, and Monetary Policy
At the James R. Wilson Lecture Series, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio

September 29, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Inflation Modeling: A Policymaker’s Perspective
At the Quantitative Evidence on Price Determination Conference, Washington, D.C.

September 28, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
U.S. currency
At the unveiling of the new $10 note design, New York, New York

September 27, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Economic flexibility
To the National Association for Business Economics Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (via satellite)

September 26, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Mortgage banking
To the American Bankers Association Annual Convention, Palm Desert, California (via satellite)

September 26, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Basel II Developments in the United States
Before the Institute of International Bankers, Washington, D.C.

September 24, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson
The Financial Stability Forum meeting
At the International Monetary and Financial Committee Meeting, Washington, D.C.

September 16, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Business Trends and Management Challenges for the Banking Industry
At the Annual Economic Outlook Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee

August 27, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Closing remarks
At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

August 27, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Panel discussion: Financial Markets, Financial Fragility, and Central Banking
At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

August 26, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Reflections on central banking
At a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

July 21, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Monetary Policy Perspectives on Risk Premiums in Financial Markets
At the Financial Market Risk Premiums Conference, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.

June 23, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Revisiting Traditional Paths to Ownership
At the Community Development Policy Summit, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

June 15, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Managing Risk in a Changing Economic and Financial Landscape
At the Banker’s Association for Finance and Trade and Institute of International Bankers Conference, New York, New York

June 14, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Current Regulatory Issues
At the North Carolina Bankers Association 109th Annual Convention, Kiawah Island, South Carolina

June 8, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Enhancing Risk Management under Basel II
At the Risk USA 2005 Congress, Boston, Massachusetts

June 7, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Community Banks: A Regulatory Update
At the American Bankers Association Chief Financial Officers Exchange Conference, Chicago, Illinois

June 6, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Central Bank panel discussion
To the International Monetary Conference, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (via satellite)

June 3, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
The Health of the Banking Industry
At the Annual Meeting of the Conference of State Banking Supervisors, San Antonio, Texas

June 3, 2005
Governor Edward M. Gramlich
HMDA Data and Their Effect on Mortgage Markets
At the National Association of Real Estate Editors, Washington, D.C.

May 27, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Asset Prices and Monetary Liquidity
To the Seventh Deutsche Bundesbank Spring Conference, Berlin, Germany

May 26, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Capital and Risk Management
At the Women in Housing and Finance Spring Symposium, Capital Issues for Financial Institutions, Washington, D.C.

May 26, 2005
Governor Edward M. Gramlich
The Politics of Inflation Targeting
At the Euromoney Inflation Conference, Paris, France

May 20, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Energy
Before the Economic Club of New York, New York, New York

May 20, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Modeling Inflation: A Policymaker’s Perspective
To the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy Conference, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

May 19, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
The Federal Reserve in an Electronic World
At the 2005 Payments Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

May 19, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Observations on Measuring and Managing Operational Risk under Basel II
At the Federal Reserve System’s Conference on Implementing an Advanced Measurement Approach for Operational Risk, Boston, Massachusetts

May 19, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Government-sponsored enterprises
To the Conference on Housing, Mortgage Finance, and the Macroeconomy, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia,
(via satellite)

May 17, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Financial Stability Benefits and Implementation Challenges of Basel II
At the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey’s International Conference on Financial Stability and Implications of Basel II, Istanbul, Turkey

May 16, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Basel II
At the Annual Washington Briefing Conference of the Financial Women's Association, Washington, D.C.

May 15, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Commencement address
At the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

May 12, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Globalization: Evidence and Policy Implications
To the Association for Financial Professionals Global Corporate Treasurers Forum, San Francisco, California
(via videoconference)

May 5, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Risk Transfer and Financial Stability
To the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Forty-first Annual Conference on
Bank Structure, Chicago, Illinois
(via satellite)

April 27, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
The Evolution of Central Banking in the United States
At a European Central Bank Colloquium in Honor of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, The European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

April 22, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Imbalances in the U.S. Economy
At the 15th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

April 21, 2005
Governor Edward M. Gramlich
A First Step in Dealing with Growing Retirement Costs
At the Spring 2005 Banking and Finance Lecture, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania

April 20, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
U.S. Current Account Deficit: Causes and Consequences
To the Economics Club of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

April 18, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
The Economy and Managing Personal Finances
At the Canisius College Richard J. Wehle School of Business Community Business Luncheon, Buffalo, New York

April 14, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit
At the Homer Jones Lecture, St. Louis, Missouri
Governor Ben S. Bernanke presented similar remarks at the Sandridge Lecture, Virginia Association of Economists, Richmond, Virginia, on March 10, 2005. Data from that speech are updated.

April 14, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Economic Outlook
At the 2005 Conference of Twelfth District Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California

April 8, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Consumer Finance
At the Federal Reserve System’s Fourth Annual Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C.

April 5, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Energy
Before the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas
(via satellite)

March 31, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, Bank Secrecy Act, and Capital Issues
At the Financial Services Roundtable Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Florida

March 30, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Implementing Monetary Policy
At the Redefining Investment Strategy Education Symposium, Dayton, Ohio

March 18, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Empowering Communities, Attracting Development Capital, and Creating Opportunities
At the 2005 National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference, Washington, D.C.

March 14, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Bank Secrecy Act and Capital Compliance Issues
At the Institute of International Bankers Annual Washington Conference, Washington, D.C.

March 11, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Bank regulation
Before the Independent Community Bankers of America National Convention, San Antonio, Texas (via videoconference)

March 10, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit
At the Sandridge Lecture, Virginia Association of Economics, Richmond, Virginia
Governor Bernanke presented similar remarks with updated data at the Homer Jones Lecture, St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 2005.

March 10, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Globalization
At the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York

March 8, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
The Economic Outlook
At a Finance Committee luncheon of the Executives’ Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

March 2, 2005
Governor Edward M. Gramlich
The Importance of Raising National Saving
At the Benjamin Rush Lecture, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania

February 28, 2005
Governor Mark W. Olson
Loan Quality and How It Reflects the Overall Economy
At the Government Affairs Conference of the Credit Union National Association, Washington, D.C.

February 24, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Productivity
At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Business Forum, Little Rock, Arkansas
Governor Ben S. Bernanke presented identical remarks at the C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York, on January 19, 2005

February 11, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Inflation in Latin America: A New Era?
At the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Economic Summit, Stanford, California

February 7, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
Behind the Scenes at the FOMC: How the Federal Reserve Determines Monetary Policy
At the Academic Speaker Series, University of Tennessee, Martin, Tennessee

February 6, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Adam Smith
At the Adam Smith Memorial Lecture, Kirkcaldy, Scotland

February 4, 2005
Chairman Alan Greenspan
Current account
At Advancing Enterprise 2005 Conference, London, England

January 27, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Recessions and Recoveries Associated with Asset-Price Movements: What Do We Know?
At the Real Estate Roundtable, Washington, D.C.
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. presented identical remarks at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford, California, on January 12, 2005

January 19, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Productivity
At the C. Peter McColough Roundtable Series on International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York
Governor Ben S. Bernanke presented identical remarks at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Business Forum, Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 24, 2005

January 18, 2005
Governor Susan Schmidt Bies
The Economy and Challenges in Retirement Savings
To Financial Executives International Baltimore Chapter, Baltimore, Maryland

January 12, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Recessions and Recoveries Associated with Asset-Price Movements: What Do We Know?
At the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford, California
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. presented identical remarks at the Real Estate Roundtable, Washington, D.C., on January 27, 2005

January 9, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Central Bank Communication
At the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

January 7, 2005
Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Interpreting Labor Market Statistics in the Context of Monetary Policy
To the 2005 Annual Convention, Allied Social Science Associations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

January 7, 2005
Governor Ben S. Bernanke
Panel Discussion: The Transition from Academic to Policymaker
At the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

January 6, 2005
Governor Donald L. Kohn
Crisis Management: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable
Wharton/Sloan/Mercer Oliver Wyman Institute Conference “Financial Risk Management in Practice” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 
Last update: September 26, 2005