Article: Time for new financial system safeguards?(USA)

Article: Fed: Emergency help for Wall Street was necessary to avert ...
AP Worldstream;  June 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... controversial decisions. The Fed's actions came at ... paralyze the entire financial system and plunge the economy ... markets at that time, the Fed said it felt compelled ... cascading through the financial system. Democrats in Congress ... critics contend the Fed's actions are ...

Article: Fed Intervenes in Financial System
AP Online;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... into the U.S. financial system Thursday, the largest ... comes one day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ... Since August, the Fed has been pumping cash into the financial system to help ease strains ... Wednesday. The Fed also has ordered ...

Article: Fed Pumps $41B Into US Financial System
AP Online;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... into the U.S. financial system Thursday, the largest ... comes one day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ... Since August, the Fed has been pumping cash into the financial system to help ease strains ... Wednesday. The Fed also has ordered ...

Article: Fed can help fix financial system.(Local)
The Virginian Pilot;  September 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... too much pressure on the Fed. Legally, the Fed can extend virtually unlimited support to our financial system. If forced, it could reduce ... but we must prevent our financial system, and the Fed, from being stretched like ...

Article: Fed, SEC complete information-sharing pact aimed at ...
AP Worldstream;  July 7, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... to enhance the stability of the financial system, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said in a ... major danger to the entire U.S. financial system. Risks to the financial system intensified in March. The Fed that month began putting its banking ...

Article: Fed injects $41 billion into US financial ...
AP Worldstream;  November 1, 2007 ;     685 words ... ... into the U.S. financial system Thursday, the largest ... comes one day after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ... Since August, the Fed has been pumping cash into the financial system to help ease strains ... Wednesday. The Fed also has ordered ...

Article: Fed Injects Cash Into Financial System
AP Online;  November 15, 2007 ;     642 words ... ... 2001, the New York Fed official said. However ... up being added to the financial system in temporary reserves ... for the worse, the Fed in August pumped large amounts of cash into the financial system to help ease financial ... any credit humps. The Fed also cut its lending ...