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What Fed Says: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announces that the outlook for growth and jobs is the same as it was late last year. Story, A5. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Great Enabler

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

What Fed Says: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announces that the outlook for growth and jobs is the same as it was late last year. Story, A5. (Associated Press)

LAMBRO: Yellen’s message about Federal Reserve’s plans unsettle market

By Donald Lambro

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during her first news conference at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. The Federal Reserve is seeking to clarify when it might start to raise short-term interest rates from record lows. The Fed also says it will cut its monthly long-term bond purchases by another $10 billion to $55 billion because it thinks the economy is strong enough to support further improvements in the job market. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Yellen’s Fed votes for ‘modest’ easing of stimulus

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

DiBACCO: March Madness of a different sort at the Fed

By Thomas V. DiBacco

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, before the House Financial Services Committee hearing. Yellen said Tuesday that if the economy keeps improving, the Fed will take "further measured steps" to reduce the support it's providing through monthly bond purchases. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

EDITORIAL: Just keep printing the money

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Business Highlights

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, before the House Financial Services Committee hearing. Yellen said Tuesday that if the economy keeps improving, the Fed will take "further measured steps" to reduce the support it's providing through monthly bond purchases. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Markets rally on Yellen’s pledge to end easy-money policies

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, Federal Reserve Board Chair nominee Janet Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination. Democrats begin a drive this week to muscle a half dozen of President Barrack Obama's Republican-opposed nominees through the Senate after clamping shackles on traditional minority party rights in last month's power play against the GOP. Republicans, however, still have some tools for grinding the Senate's work to an excruciatingly slow crawl. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senate confirms Yellen as next Fed chairman

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

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Yellen is handed reins to Fed in bumpy ride to end stimulus

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration by ALexander Hunter /The Washington Times

YOUNG: Stop the money presses!

By Ryan Young

Janet Yellen, of California, President Barack Obama's nominee to become Federal Reserve Board chair, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday Nov. 14, 2013, before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to succeed Ben Bernanke. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Janet Yellen nomination approved by banking panel

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Fed nominee Janet Yellen objects to audit of monetary meetings

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Janet Yellen, President Obama's choice to succeed Ben S. Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve, heads to Capitol Hill on Thursday for her confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Banking Committee. Ms. Yellen, a labor economist, is the current vice chairwoman at the Fed. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Yellen to call for no change in Fed policy

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican says "the Fed continues to inflate our currency, wreck our economy and operate in the shadows. This will be the fight of our lives." (associated press photographs)

Fed chairman fight could rattle markets if Paul holds up vote on Yellen

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

SOWELL: A return to Keynes?

By Thomas Sowell

Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, smiles as President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, where the president announced he is nominating Yellen to be chair of the Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama makes it official: Yellen to head Fed

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

President Obama nominated Janet Yellen, a loyal lieutenant of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, to become the first woman to head the century-old central bank on Wednesday.

Fed future: Janet Yellen to be nominated as Ben Bernanke’s replacement

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The too-powerful Fed

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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Larry Summers withdraws from consideration as Bernanke’s successor at Fed

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Off the List: Lawrence H. Summers, a leading candidate for Federal Reserve chairman, would have faced a bruising battle. (Associated Press)

Under pressure from some Democrats and feminists, Lawrence Summers withdraws name for Federal Reserv

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times