Steven K. Beckner

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Steven K. Beckner

Steve Beckner is senior correspondent for Market News International. He is heard regularly on National Public Radio and is the author of "Back From The Brink: The Greenspan Years" (Wiley).

• Is the Fed playing with fire?

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  January 1, 2011

  Now that the Federal Reserve has embarked on a new round of quantitative easing (QE2), what can we expect

• As the monetary policy pendulum swings...

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  October 1, 2010

  My, how things have changed on the monetary policy front

• Interest rates: No Fed tightening in sight

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  June 24, 2010

  There's still no end in sight for the ultra-easy monetary policy.

• Interest rates: When will the Fed tighten?

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  April 1, 2010

  The Fed is far from tightening its monetary policy.

• Will Federal Reserve tighten interest rates?

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  January 1, 2010

  The Federal Reserve could tighten rates, but how timely tightening will be is still in question.

• How aggressively will the Fed tighten?

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  October 1, 2009

  When will the Federal Reserve start to tighten credit?

• Mr. Bernanke, meet the bond traders

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  June 18, 2009

  It’s not getting easier to make monetary policy in an improving but still acutely uncertain economic and financial climate. Things were precarious enough when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

• The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  January 14, 2009

  In his 2005 tome, "The World Is Flat," Thomas Friedman made the case that globalization has leveled the international playing field. But Smick contends the free flow of capital has actually rendered

• Fed sailing into treacherous waters in 2009

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  December 15, 2008

  Will the unprecedented measures that the Fed, the Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other authorities took last year succeed in at last stabilizing the financial system and

• Fed not in a hurry to raise rates

  By Steven K. Beckner  |  September 19, 2008

  Notwithstanding surprisingly strong second quarter gross domestic product growth, the Fed still has grave doubts about the economic outlook given continued housing and financial market fragility.