- Tonight at 7PM Kocherlakota meets with students and the public in #Duluth for a town hall session about the Fed and its mandates. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263422652595720193
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Tue, Oct 30 2012 23:30:29 - Kocherlakota’s opening remarks for a town hall session at #UMD discussing the Fed and its goals. #MFedQandA http://goo.gl/QUEfX
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263432088471093248
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:07:58 - Kocherlakota Speech. Opening Remarks for a Duluth Town Hall
- Kocherlakota: the Fed’s mandated goals are clearly Main Street ones—to promote max employment and price stability. http://goo.gl/QUEfX
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263432828941910016
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:10:55 - Promoting max employment means Fed is charged w doing what it can to ensure Americans who want to work can do so. http://goo.gl/QUEfX
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263432864291491841
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:11:03 - Kocherlakota: Some observers argue that the Fed has done too much, has been too accommodative. I strongly disagree. http://goo.gl/QUEfX
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263434056455319552
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:15:48 - Kocherlakota now taking questions from the audience at #UMD. We will be tweeting more than usual as we follow the discussion. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263435224195678211
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:20:26 - Duluth Town Hall with Narayana Kocherlakota
- Question from audience: Thoughts on economic impact of hurricane? #Sandy #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263436862813782016
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:26:57 - Kocherlakota: General rule is natural disaster has short-term effect, but not large-scale economic consequences over long term. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263436896888299520
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:27:05 - Question about the natural rate of unemployment. Kocherlakota: Unemployment rate in long-run consistent w/ inflation target. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263437516101799936
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:29:32 - Question: Policies in place to prevent another recession? #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263438634236129282
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:33:59 - Kocherlakota: In 2010 Congress passed #DoddFrank to monitor systemic financial instability. Changes in infancy still. Safer over time.
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263438783331065856
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:34:35 - Question about the gold standard. Kocherlakota: Gold Standard puts limit on how you can conduct monetary policy. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263439423549612032
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:37:07 - RT @LorcanRK: Isn't that the point of a gold standard? MT @MinneapolisFed Kocherlakota: Gold Standard puts limit on how you can conduct monetary policy
http://twitter.com/cjtr66/status/263514846853730304
— Carlos Ruivo (@cjtr66)Wed, Oct 31 2012 05:36:50 - Kocherlakota: In ‘08/’09, Fed injected liquidity into mkts to prevent conditions from worsening; not able to if on Gold Standard. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263439588582907905
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:37:47 - Question about the ongoing issues in Europe and how that affects the US economy. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263442696679591936
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:50:08 - Kocherlakota: Past few years we’ve seen positive changes in US & some in Europe; optimistic that US could withstand Euro shocks. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263442735468535808
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:50:17 - Question about negative real interest rate. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263443810724483072
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:54:33 - Kocherlakota: In times of uncertainty, huge demand for limited number of safe assets; low interest rates symptom of uncertainty. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263443977859133443
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 00:55:13 - Question: How will the Fed unwind its assets it currently holds, like its mortgage-backed securities? #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263447718284890112
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 01:10:05 - Kocherlakota: FOMC has planned for this; we will start selling them off at some point and also depend on assets being paid off. #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263447750962733057
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 01:10:13 - More from the FOMC on the exit strategy, from June 2011: http://goo.gl/Dnce8 #MMFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263447816599375872
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 01:10:28 - Question: What do you say to people who have a need to grow their savings? #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263449278507253760
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 01:16:17 - Kocherlakota: Big challenge for savers is huge demand for saving. Price is high and the yield is going to be low. (1/2) #MFedQandA
http://twitter.com/MinneapolisFed/status/263449433558110208
— Minneapolis Fed (@MinneapolisFed)Wed, Oct 31 2012 01:16:54
