Speeches of Federal Reserve Officials

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• December 16, 2013
  Concluding Remarks
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Ceremony Commemorating the Centennial of the Federal Reserve Act, Washington, D.C.
• December 16, 2013
  Opening Remarks
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Ceremony Commemorating the Centennial of the Federal Reserve Act, Washington, D.C.
• November 22, 2013
  Shadow Banking and Systemic Risk Regulation
  Governor Daniel K. Tarullo
  At the Americans for Financial Reform and Economic Policy Institute Conference, Washington, D.C.
• November 21, 2013
  OTC Market Infrastructure Reform: Opportunities and Challenges
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the Clearing House 2013 Annual Meeting, New York, New York
• November 19, 2013
  Communication and Monetary Policy
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the National Economists Club Annual Dinner, Herbert Stein Memorial Lecture, Washington, D.C.
• November 14, 2013
  40th Anniversary of the Annual Conference of the Union of Arab Banks
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Annual Conference of the Union of Arab Banks, Beirut, Lebanon (via prerecorded video)
• November 13, 2013
  Teaching and Learning about the Federal Reserve
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At A Teacher Town Hall Meeting: 100 Years of the Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C.
• November 8, 2013
  The Crisis as a Classic Financial Panic
  Chairman  Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Fourteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference, Washington, D.C.
• November 7, 2013
  The Fire-Sales Problem and Securities Financing Transactions
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and International Monetary Fund Conference, Chicago, Illinois
• November 4, 2013
  Advanced Economy Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Economies
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 2013 Asia Economic Policy Conference, San Francisco, California
• October 18, 2013
  Toward Building a More Effective Resolution Regime: Progress and Challenges
  Governor Daniel K. Tarullo
  At the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Conference, "Planning for the Orderly Resolution of a Global Systemically Important Bank", Washington, D.C.
• October 18, 2013
  Lean, Clean, and In-Between
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference: Lessons from the Financial Crisis for Monetary Policy, Boston, Massachusetts
• October 14, 2013
  Celebrating 20 Years of the Bank of Mexico's Independence
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the "Central Bank Independence--Progress and Challenges," a Conference Sponsored by the Bank of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico (via prerecorded video)
• October 11, 2013
  Communications Challenges and Quantitative Easing
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the 2013 Institute of International Finance Annual Membership Meeting, Washington, D.C.
• October 4, 2013
  The Fire-Sales Problem and Securities Financing Transactions
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Workshop on Fire Sales as a Driver of Systemic Risk in Triparty Repo and other Secured Funding Markets, New York, New York
• October 3, 2013
  Community Banking: Connecting Research and Policy
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the Federal Reserve/Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Community Banking Research Conference, St. Louis, Missouri
• October 2, 2013
  Brief Welcoming Remarks
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the "Community Banking in the 21st Century," a Conference Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve System and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, St. Louis, Missouri
• September 26, 2013
  Yield-Oriented Investors and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the "Banking, Liquidity and Monetary Policy," a Symposium Sponsored by the Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt, Germany
• September 20, 2013
  Macroprudential Regulation
  Governor Daniel K. Tarullo
  At the Yale Law School Conference on Challenges in Global Financial Services, New Haven, Connecticut
• July 17, 2013
  Beyond Capital: The Case for a Harmonized Response to Asset Bubbles
  Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin
  At the The Exchequer Club Luncheon, Washington, D.C.
• July 10, 2013
  A Century of U.S. Central Banking: Goals, Frameworks, Accountability
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the "The First 100 Years of the Federal Reserve: The Policy Record, Lessons Learned, and Prospects for the Future," a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• July 2, 2013
  International Financial Regulatory Reform
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the Deutsche Bundesbank Reception, New York, New York
• June 28, 2013
  Comments on Monetary Policy
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York
• June 27, 2013
  Thoughts on Unconventional Monetary Policy
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the Bipartisan Policy Center, Washington, D.C.
• June 6, 2013
  Let's Move Forward: The Case for Timely Implementation of Revised Capital Rules
  Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin
  At the Ohio Bankers Day, Columbus, Ohio
• June 2, 2013
  Regulatory Landscapes: A U.S. Perspective
  Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen
  At the International Monetary Conference, Shanghai, China
• June 2, 2013
  The Ten Suggestions
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Baccalaureate Ceremony at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• May 18, 2013
  Economic Prospects for the Long Run
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
• May 16, 2013
  Prospects for a Stronger Recovery
  Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin
  At the Society of Government Economists and the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C.
• May 10, 2013
  Monitoring the Financial System
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• May 9, 2013
  A View from the Federal Reserve Board: The Mortgage Market and Housing Conditions
  Governor Elizabeth A. Duke
  At the Housing Policy Executive Council, Washington, D.C.
• May 3, 2013
  Evaluating Progress in Regulatory Reforms to Promote Financial Stability
  Governor Daniel K. Tarullo
  At the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
• April 19, 2013
  Liquidity Regulation and Central Banking
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the "Finding the Right Balance" 2013 Credit Markets Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Charlotte, North Carolina
• April 18, 2013
  Aspects of Inequality in the Recent Business Cycle
  Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin
  At the "Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy" 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies, New York, New York
• April 17, 2013
  Regulating Large Financial Institutions
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the "Rethinking Macro Policy II," a conference sponsored by the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
• April 16, 2013
  Panel Discussion on "Monetary Policy: Many Targets, Many Instruments. Where Do We Stand?"
  Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen
  At the "Rethinking Macro Policy II," a conference sponsored by the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C.
• April 12, 2013
  Creating Resilient Communities
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the "Resilience and Rebuilding for Low-Income Communities: Research to Inform Policy and Practice" Federal Reserve System Community Affairs Research Conference, Washington, D.C.
• April 8, 2013
  Stress Testing Banks: What Have We Learned?
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the "Maintaining Financial Stability: Holding a Tiger by the Tail" financial markets conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Stone Mountain, Georgia
• April 4, 2013
  Communication in Monetary Policy
  Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen
  At the Society of American Business Editors and Writers 50th Anniversary Conference, Washington, D.C.
• April 4, 2013
  Financial and Economic Education
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the 13th Annual Redefining Investment Strategy Education (RISE) Forum, Dayton, Ohio (via prerecorded video)
• March 25, 2013
  Monetary Policy and the Global Economy
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Department of Economics and STICERD (Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines) Public Discussion in Association with the Bank of England, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom
• March 22, 2013
  Focusing on Low- and Moderate-Income Working Americans
  Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin
  At the National Community Reinvestment Coalition Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
• March 8, 2013
  Comments on Housing and Mortgage Markets
  Governor Elizabeth A. Duke
  At the Mortgage Bankers Association Mid-Winter Housing Finance Conference, Avon, Colorado
• March 4, 2013
  Ending "Too Big to Fail"
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the Institute of International Bankers 2013 Washington Conference, Washington, D.C.
• March 4, 2013
  Challenges Confronting Monetary Policy
  Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen
  At the 2013 National Association for Business Economics Policy Conference, Washington, D.C.
• March 1, 2013
  Long-Term Interest Rates
  Chairman Ben S. Bernanke
  At the Annual Monetary/Macroeconomics Conference: The Past and Future of Monetary Policy, sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
• February 28, 2013
  Reflections on Reputation and its Consequences
  Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin
  At the 2013 Banking Outlook Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
• February 22, 2013
  International Cooperation in Financial Regulation
  Governor Daniel K. Tarullo
  At the Cornell International Law Journal Symposium: The Changing Politics of Central Banks, New York, New York
• February 22, 2013
  Discussion of "Crunch Time: Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy"
  Governor Jerome H. Powell
  At the "U.S. Monetary Policy Forum" conference sponsored by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York, New York
• February 11, 2013
  A Painfully Slow Recovery for America's Workers: Causes, Implications, and the Federal Reserve's Response
  Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen
  At the "A Trans-Atlantic Agenda for Shared Prosperity" conference sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and the IMK Macroeconomic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
• February 7, 2013
  Overheating in Credit Markets: Origins, Measurement, and Policy Responses
  Governor Jeremy C. Stein
  At the "Restoring Household Financial Stability after the Great Recession: Why Household Balance Sheets Matter" research symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
• February 5, 2013
  The Future of Community Banking
  Governor Elizabeth A. Duke
  At the Southeastern Bank Management and Directors Conference, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business, Duluth, Georgia
• January 4, 2013
  Interconnectedness and Systemic Risk: Lessons from the Financial Crisis and Policy Implications
  Vice Chair Janet L. Yellen
  At the American Economic Association/American Finance Association Joint Luncheon, San Diego, California