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ST. ANDREWS, Britain, Nov. 7 -- It is still too early to remove stimulus, and climate change financing remains the key to success of the Copenhagen conference, the G20 finance ministers and bank governors said Saturday.

Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, left, talks with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, centre, and others unidentified, during the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at St Andrews.

File - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses a meeting of the Chicago Economic Club, in this June 15, 2006 file photo taken in Chicago.

It is clear to most of us that we are living in perilous times. There is a sense, amplified by the behavior of the "experts", that we are in uncharted territory when it comes to our economic straits.

The U.S. Federal Reserve pledged Wednesday to keep a key interest rate at a record low for an "extended period," signaling that the weak American economy remains dependent on government stimulus to grow.

Ben Bernanke has a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, he wants to be a credible inflation hawk, to keep expectations of inflation from doing bad things to the economy.

Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has stayed carefully on the sidelines while a major argument has broken out among and around senior policymaking circles: Should our biggest banks be broken up, or can they be safely re-regulated into permanently good behavior? . But the issues are too pressing and the stakes are too high for key ...

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In this July 30, 2009 photo, patients wait in the emergency room at Cook County Hospital, one of Chicago's safety net hospitals.

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In its continuing efforts to nurture the fragile economic recovery, the U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to leave interest rates at record lows when it concludes its meeting today .

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Faced with lurking dangers to the budding recovery, Federal Reserve policymakers are sure to leave a key interest rate at a record low to entice Americans to spend more and help the economic turnaround gain traction.

WASHINGTON: The US Federal Reserve opens a two-day policy-setting meeting on Tuesday expected to leave near-zero interest rates and emergency measures on hold amid signs of a fragile recovery from recession.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is gambling that come March, he can stop the purchases of mortgage-backed securities that have propped up the U.S. housing market.

Sitting in his office, Rep. Brad Sherman does not look like an angry man. Leaning back and rubbing his stomach, the Californian calmly explains his concerns about the Treasury Department's plan to regulate the financial industry, currently moving through Congress.

Even with the Federal Reserve widely expected to leave interest rates at a record low this week to nurture the fragile recovery, fissures are growing among U.S. policymakers about when to start boosting rates to head off inflation.

Policy makers from South Korea to Singapore, confronted with rising real-estate values that threaten to mimic in Asia the U.S. mortgage bubble that roiled the global economy, are stepping up efforts to rein in prices.

A Systemic Risk Regulator and a Compensation Tsar? Larry Summers and Ben Bernanke must be kidding.

T he nation's Gross Domestic Product is growing again, and most economists now agree the worst recession in more than 70 years is all but done.