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Banking regulation: the focus returns to the consumer
A renewed emphasis on consumer protection while maintaining safety and soundness.
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Actions to restore financial stability
A summary of recent Federal Reserve initiatives
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Supervisory enforcement actions since FIRREA and FDICIA
In response to banking crises in the 1980s, Congress passed two laws that expanded enforcement powers of financial institution supervisors, including the Federal Reserve. At the time, some observers warned that these new powers would be misused. A careful analysis of enforcement actions taken over the past 15 years indicates that these concerns were unwarranted.
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Federal Reserve liquidity programs: an update
A review of the size, status and results of the Fed's programs to cope with crisis
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Ninth District banking conditions from the examiners' viewpoint
Unleashing Hamilton’s Financial Revolution
The federal government’s assumption of Revolutionary War debt was part of what historians now describe as Hamilton’s financial revolution.