Speeches of Federal Reserve Officials

December 15, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
The implications of financial modernization legislation for bank supervision
Before the Symposium on Financial Modernization Legislation, sponsored by Women in Housing and Finance, Washington, D.C.

November 30, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Start with a paradigm, end with a story: The value of model-based forecasting and policy analysis
Before the Stern Graduate School of Business, New York University, New York, New York

November 15, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Insurance companies and banks under the new regulatory law
Before the Annual Meeting of the American Council of Life Insurance, Washington, D.C.

November 4, 1999

Governor Edward M. Gramlich
Consumer credit in the 21st century
Before the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Credit Research Center, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Arlington, Virginia

November 2, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Mortgage markets and economic activity
Before a conference on Mortgage Markets and Economic Activity sponsored by America's Community Bankers, Washington, D.C.

October 28, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Information, productivity, and capital investment
Before The Business Council, Boca Raton, Florida

October 28, 1999

Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Financial market lessons for bankers and bank supervisors
Before the The Bond Market Association, New York, New York

October 19, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Do efficient financial markets mitigate financial crises?
Before the 1999 Financial Markets Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Sea Island, Georgia

October 15, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Business, the economy, and the new millenium
Before the National Italian American Foundation, Washington, D.C.

October 14, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Measuring financial risk in the twenty-first century
Before a conference sponsored by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C.

October 12, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
New challenges for monetary policy: The view from Jackson Hole
Before the Department of Finance Lecture Series, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

October 11, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
The evolution of bank supervision
Before the American Bankers Association, Phoenix, Arizona

October 6, 1999

Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Year 2000: Eighty-six days and counting
Before the National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Washington, D.C.

October 1, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Implications of recent global financial crises for bank supervision and regulation
Before the International Finance Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

September 30, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Trade and technology
Before the Minnesota Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota

September 28, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Year 2000: Ninety-four days and counting
Before the Wallenberg Forum at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

September 27, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Lessons from the global crises
Before the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, Program of Seminars, Washington, D.C.

September 27, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
An agenda for bank supervision and regulation
Before the Institute of International Bankers Annual Breakfast Dialogue, Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, D.C.

September 21, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Is information technology the key to higher productivity growth in the United States and abroad?
Before the 2000 Global Economic and Investment Outlook Conference, Carnegie Bosch Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

September 17, 1999

Governor Edward M. Gramlich
Electronic money in the United States
Before the Electronic Payment Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

September 17, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Status of Y2K preparedness
Before the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, Financial Sector Group, Year 2000 Summit, Washington, D.C.

September 16, 1999

Governor Edward W. Kelley, Jr.
Readiness of financial institutions for the year 2000
Before the Banking Regulators' News Conference on Y2K Readiness, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

September 15, 1999

Governor Edward M. Gramlich
Small businesses in the U.S. economy
Before the BusinessLINC and Small Business Technical Assistance Conference, Washington, D.C.

September 9, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Transparency and responsibility in monetary policy
Before The National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.

September 8, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Q&A on the economic outlook and the challenges facing monetary policy
Before the Philadelphia Council for Business Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

September 8, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Maintaining economic vitality
Millennium Lecture Series, sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford Foundation and Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan

August 27, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
New challenges for monetary policy
Before a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

July 29, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Continuing the countdown to year 2000: Focusing on public disclosure and public confidence
Before the George Washington University Y2K Group, Washington, D.C.

June 22, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Public information and public confidence in year 2000
Before the Second Global Y2K National Coordinators Conference, United Nations, New York, New York

June 16, 1999

Governor Edward M. Gramlich
A policy in Lampman's tradition: The Community Reinvestment Act
Second Annual Robert J. Lampman Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison

June 14, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Market discipline as a complement to bank supervision and regulation
Before the Conference on Reforming Bank Capital Standards, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York

June 10, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Commencement address
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

June 10, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
The making of monetary policy
Before the East Hanover (N.J.) Area Chamber of Commerce, East Hanover, New Jersey

June 3, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Moving forward into the 21st century
At the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Williamsburg, Virginia

June 2, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Trade and technology
Before the Alliance for the Commonwealth, Conference on International Business, Boston, Massachusetts

June 1, 1999

Vice Chair Alice M. Rivlin
Dilemmas facing United States policymakers
At La Conférence de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

May 13, 1999

Vice Chair Alice M. Rivlin
On economic literacy
At the Economic Literacy Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota

May 13, 1999

Vice Chair Alice M. Rivlin
On sustaining U.S. economic growth
Before the "Minnesota Meeting" group, Minneapolis, Minnesota

May 6, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
The American economy in a world context
At the 35th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

April 29, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Currency reserves and debt
Before the World Bank Conference on Recent Trends in Reserves Management, Washington, D.C.

April 26, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
The euro in the international financial system
At the European Institute's Conference "Challenges to the European Millennium," Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, D.C.

April 22, 1999

Governor Edward M. Gramlich
A stabilization policy strategy
Before the Wharton Public Policy Forum Series, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Governor Gramlich presented an identical speech at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, April 23, 1999

April 22, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Structure, instability, and the world economy
At the Ninth Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on Financial Structure, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York

April 16, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Technology and trade
Before the Dallas Ambassadors Forum, Dallas, Texas

April 14, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
The global economic outlook and monetary policy challenges
Before the World Economic Forum, U.S.A. Regional Meeting, U.S. Chamber of Commerce's National Chamber Foundation, Washington, D.C.

April 13, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
The payments system and Year 2000
Before the National Automated Clearing House Association, Atlanta, Georgia

April 6, 1999

Vice Chair Alice M. Rivlin
Social Security
Before the Business Roundtable, Social Security Symposium, Washington, D.C.

March 25, 1999

Governor Edward W. Kelley, Jr.
Thinking about Y2K
Owens Distinguished Lecture Series, Owens Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University

March 19, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Financial derivatives
Before the Futures Industry Association, Boca Raton, Florida

March 16, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Small business access to capital: Current status and initiatives
At the National Black Business Council, Washington, D.C.

March 16, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
The farm economy
At the Annual Convention of the Independent Bankers Association of America, San Francisco, California

March 12, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
Financial modernization: The issues
At the 1999 F. Hodge O'Neal Corporate & Securities Law Symposium, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri

March 10, 1999

Governor Edward W. Kelley, Jr.
Y2K and public confidence in the banking system
Before the Media Studies Center, New York, New York

March 9, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Changes in small business finance
At the Federal Reserve System Research Conference on Business Access to Capital and Credit, Arlington, Virginia

March 8, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
Mortgage finance
At the Mortgage Bankers Association, Washington, D.C.

March 8, 1999

Governor Edward M. Gramlich
Small business access to capital and credit
At the Federal Reserve System Research Conference on Business Access to Capital and Credit, Arlington, Virginia

March 3, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Global financial integration
At the Annual Policy Seminar of the National Association for Business Economics, Washington, D.C.

March 1, 1999

Vice Chair Alice M. Rivlin
Learning from financial market turbulence
At the Institute of International Bankers, Washington, D.C.

February 25, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Evolution of financial institutions and markets: Private and policy implications
At the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York, New York

February 25, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
The global economic outlook and monetary policy challenges
At the Annual Dinner of the Society of Business Economists, London, England

February 24, 1999

Vice Chair Alice M. Rivlin
Dilemmas of an economic superpower
At the Financial Services Dinner of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, New York

February 16, 1999

Chairman Alan Greenspan
The interaction of education and economic change
At the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.

February 11, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Latin America: Lessons learned from the last twenty years
At the Florida International Bankers Association, Inc., Miami, Florida

January 21, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
The international millennium challenge
At the Bank Administration Institute, Orlando, Florida

January 15, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
The making of monetary policy
Prepared for delivery at the East Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce, East Hanover, New Jersey

January 11, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
The transformation of the U.S. banking system
Before the Conference Board's 1999 Financial Services Outlook Conference, New York, New York

January 4, 1999

Governor Laurence H. Meyer
The transformation of the U.S. banking system
At the North American Economics and Finance Association Meetings, New York, New York

January 3, 1999

Governor Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
Thoughts on the start of a new year
At the National Economic Association Forum, New York, New York