By purchasing and holding large amounts of Treasury securities and MBS, we put additional downward pressure on term premiums and so on long-term rates. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The Government Securities Act gave the Treasury Department some rulemaking authority over all government securities brokers and dealers. But the act also required these firms to register with the SEC. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
All economic forecasts are subject to considerable uncertainty. There is always a wide range of plausible outcomes for important economic variables, including the federal… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Emerging market economies have long grappled with the challenges posed by large and volatile cross-border capital flows. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Although I have never worked in a community bank, I have been a customer, and I know from personal experience the special skills that… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest challenge for the resolution of a systemic global bank is the possibility that public or private actors in different countries might… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
An efficient payments system provides the infrastructure needed to transfer money in low-cost and convenient ways. Efficient systems are innovative in improving the quality… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Higher capital requirements increase bank costs, and at least some of those costs will be passed along to bank customers and shareholders. But in… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
