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Former Fed chief Paul Volcker spoke out against regulatory dysfunction and said the central bank should focus on keeping inflation in check.

Retail sales, housing data and a key inflation measure are all due next week, and Janet Yellen could take another step toward becoming the first woman to head the Federal Reserve.

Among a flurry of economic news due next week the most anticipated events may well be speeches given by members of the Federal Reserve.

European Central Bank policymaker Jens Weidmann advised resisting the possibility, raised by others at the ECB, of buying assets to aid a weak recovery.

Janet Yellen doesn't see a bubble in the stock market from QE3, but is it a concern considering the Fed has missed bubbles before?

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Friends of the brilliant but prickly economist believe he's more than a little interested in the top job at the Fed.

Janet Yellen is the odds-on favorite to replace Ben Bernanke, whose term is poised to end next year, and become the first female Fed chief. 

New York Fed President William Dudley said the central bank still needs to push hard against threats to the U.S. economic recovery.

Federal Reserve officials are on track to begin scaling back one of their major economic stimulus programs but remained divided over the timing.

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The head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said a pan-European banking union is an important step to stabilizing that region's troubled economy.

The head of the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank said he was 'chagrined' by the slowness in agreeing on reforms to money market mutual funds.

The dollar was hoisted to a more than five-year high against the yen Thursday after the Fed started to dial back its massive bond-buying stimulus.

As the Senate slowly moves to confirm Janet Yellen to chair the Federal Reserve, Republicans are strengthening efforts to subject the central bank to expanded federal audits.

The last thing the Fed wants to do is pull back its stimulus only to have to reverse course. More likely, the Fed is happy to take an extra month or two before it begins curtailing its bond purchases to ensure the slow progress in the labor market is sustainable.

Former Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer is reportedly President Obama’s top pick to become vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

A lack of economic data reports next week will leave investors parsing the words of various Fed members for clues as to what direction the central bank is leaning with regard to scaling back easy money.  

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver testimony on May 22 on the outlook for the U.S. economy before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.

A top International Monetary Fund official said the U.S. economy would likely grow as much as 2 percentage points higher this year if the government were not tightening fiscal policy.