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BY DEB WEINSTEIN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

The future isn’t quite here, but Mesirow Financial’s Chief Economist and Senior Managing Director Diane C. Swonk says what it will look like is coming into focus. In [...]

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BY KATE SHELLNUTT – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Unsurprisingly, first question to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke following his keynote address at the Bank Structure and Competition Conference was about this week’s catchphrase, “stress tests.”

After declining to reveal the results of the Fed’s evaluation of the country’s biggest financial institutions [...]

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BY DEB WEINSTEIN — MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Speaking via satellite to an audience of over 200 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s annual Bank Structure and Competition conference, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined what he called “lessons of the crisis.”

The major lesson: Oversight [...]

BY MARJORIE KORN — MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Last week Alan Greenspan, former Maestro and chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said his mea culpas for allowing interest rates to stay so low for so long, making lending and borrowing too easy.

Those with a taste for irony got their fill [...]

As inflation motors on, can your portfolio keep pace?
by Patrick Temple-West
May 13, 200

Chicago-area investors are looking to shift their portfolios into higher gear—with greater risk—to keep pace with rising inflation.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are in the red [...]

PATRICK TEMPLE-WEST MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

For his remarks before Chicagoans at the Intercontinental Hotel Thursday morning, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, gets an “A” for his research and an “F” for his attention to detail.

Had Bernanke submitted his remarks as an 8th grade book report, he would have failed spectacularly.

Bernanke talked generally–describing how successful firms [...]