Fox Business - The Power to Prosper
Search Site

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET

Peter Diamond

Peter Arthur Diamond (born , 1940) is an American economist known for his analysis of U.S. Social Security policy and his work as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Read More at Wikipedia ›

Related Topics

  1. Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.
  2. Robert Diamond
  3. Peter Barnes
  4. De Beers
  5. Small Business Report
  6. Peter Fisher
Get updates on Peter Diamond
Senate Backs Obama's Two Fed Nominees

The Senate on Thursday approved President Barack Obama's nominees to fill two vacancies on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

The votes mean that the Fed will operate with all seven board members for the first time in six years. The Senate backed Harvard University economics professor Jeremy Stein, a Democrat, and former private-equity executive Jerome Powell, a Republican. Obama had paired the nominees together in order to ease passage. The Fed's unconventional monetary policy in the wake of the financial crisis has been controversial on Capitol Hill, particularly among Republican legislators, putting more scrutiny on nominees to the central bank. Nobel-Prize winning economist Peter Diamond withdrew as a candidate for the Fed board last summer due to Republican opposition.Copyright © 2012 MarketWatch, Inc....

Read More ›

  1. Warsh, Lone Hawk on Fed Board, to Step Down

    Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve's youngest-ever governor and a vocal inflation hawk skeptical of recent monetary easing efforts, said on Thursday he is stepping dow...

  2. Obama, Republicans Negotiate Bush Tax Cuts

    President Barack Obama and Republican leaders sought to break a "logjam" over the fate of Bush-era tax cuts on Tuesday, forming a new panel the White House hopes wil...

  3. Bernanke warns on long-term joblessness

    By Kristina CookeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned on Tuesday that a long period of high unemployment could exact a steep social cost...

  4. Fed Nominee Says Limit Tax Cut Extensions

    Nobel laureate Peter Diamond, a nominee to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, said on Tuesday that extending Bush-era tax cuts should be limited to those beneat...

  5. Fed officials defend drive to lower rates

    By Pedro Nicolaci da CostaMONTGOMERY, Alabama (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday fought back against a stream of criticism over its $600 billion ec...

  6. Week Ahead: GM Sells Itself in IPO

    U.S. corporate icon General Motors will sell itself to the public next week in one of the most highly anticipated initial public offerings in a decade.GM, once the w...

  7. Trading Wall Street for Main

    We talk to a pair of entrepreneurs on how they are making ends meet despite slower consumer spending.

  8. Markets Close Session in Positive Territory

    FBN's Shibani Joshi breaks down the biggest business stories of the day.

  9. Stocks Moving Slightly Positive

    FBN's Shibani Joshi on the latest market moves.

  10. Two Americans Among Nobel Prize for Economics Winners

    FBN's Shibani Joshi on the three winners of the Nobel Prize for Economics.

  11. 'The Social Network' Tops Weekend Box Office

    FBN's Connell McShane on the movie topping the box office for the second straight week.

  12. Three Share Nobel Prize For Economics

    FBN's Connell McShane on the recipients of the Nobel Prize.

  1. Is the New York Times Attacking Apple for No Reason?

    First Trust Advisors chief economist Brian Wesbury weighs in on the debate over corporate tax rates.

  2. Obama to Nominate Powell, Stein to Fed Board

    U.S. President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats...

  3. WH: 'Obstructionism' Thwarted Fed Nominee

    The White House said Monday it was disappointed Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond's nomination to be a Federal Reserve governor was thwarted by "partisan obstructioni...

  4. Stock index futures signal mixed open

    LONDON (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the Dow Jones down 0.1 percent, the Nasdaq 100 futures up 0...

  5. Obama Fed pick withdraws, slams partisan politics

    By Mark Felsenthal and Kristina CookeWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Prize winner Peter Diamond said on Sunday he planned to withdraw as a nominee for Federal ...

  6. Senate Panel Backs Diamond for Fed Again

    A Senate panel on Thursday approved for the third time the nomination of Nobel laureate Peter Diamond to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board over the opposition of R...

  7. Senate panel OKs Diamond for Fed, prospects cloudy

    By Rachelle YounglaiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Thursday approved for the third time the nomination of Nobel laureate Peter Diamond to a seat on the Fed...

‹ Prev12Next ›
Freebase CC-BY
Source: Peter Diamond on Freebase, licensed under CC-BY
Other content from Wikipedia, licensed under the GFDL