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  Fed’s George Calls for Reducing QE Citing Higher Risk Taking

  Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George, who has dissented against record stimulus at every policy meeting this year, urged the Fed to reduce its $85 billion in monthly bond buying as growth quickens and low interest rates prompt investors to take on more risk.

• Janet Yellen Builds Legacy of Policy Transparency as Fed’s No. 2

  Eating in the employee cafeteria was considered outré for Federal Reserve governors when Janet Yellen joined the board in 1994 -- so much so that a writer for the Minneapolis Fed’s quarterly magazine, The Region, called her on it in an interview.

• Fed’s Stein Says Liquidity Regulation Has Key Role for Stability

  Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein said liquidity regulation is essential to financial stability, while noting a need for a more moderate approach to such oversight compared with supervision of capital.

• Bank of Canada Governor Carney's Lecture in Edmonton (Text)

  Following is the text of a lecture Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is delivering today in Edmonton. Footnotes and charts have been removed.

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  Bankers Warn Fed of Farm, Student Loan Bubbles Echoing Subprime

  A group of bankers that advises the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors has warned that farmland prices are inflating “a bubble” and growth in student-loan debt has “parallels to the housing crisis.”

• Fed’s Stein Backs Using Surcharges to Reduce Risk From Banks

  Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein said regulators should make the biggest banks bear the cost of their systemic risk by imposing capital surcharges rather than by forcibly shrinking them.

• Fed’s Stein Says Benefits of Third QE Plan Outweigh Risks

  Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein said diminishing returns from Fed purchases of Treasury securities indicate the central bank should instead buy mortgage-backed debt.

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  Stein Sees Signs of Excessive Risk Taking in Some Markets

  Federal Reserve Governor Jeremy Stein said some credit markets, such as corporate debt, are showing signs of potentially excessive risk-taking, while not posing a threat to financial stability.

• U.S. Swaps ‘Reach,’ Iosco Proposal, SEC Fee: Compliance

  Nine overseas finance officials urged U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to limit the cross- border reach of Dodd-Frank Act swaps rules that they say are fragmenting the $639 trillion global market.

• Kocherlakota Says Low Fed Rates Create Financial Instability

  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said the central bank’s low interest-rate policies, though necessary, will probably generate signs of financial instability.

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• "We are seeing a fairly significant pattern of reaching-for-yield behavior emerging in corporate credit."

  - Jeremy Stein on Jun 04, 2013

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