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Chapter
19
The
Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy
Introduction
from Chapter 19
Remember what a big
deal the employment report is for financial markets? While the employment
report can rattle markets, when the Federal Reserve (the Fed to you insiders)
makes an unexpected interest rate move, that’s more like an earthquake!
Yes, nothing gets
market attention like a Fed move. And since the Fed is in charge of monetary
policy, we’ll take a look at just what monetary policy is and then talk about
how the Fed goes about its business.
Web Links for Chapter
19
Links
are coming. Check back.
What’s
New?
“Come
with Me to the FOMC”
Federal
Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke gave a speech on October 19, 2010 on what it is
like to attend an FOMC meeting as a member of that policy group. She goes into detail not only about the
meeting itself but the extensive preparation before the policy meeting.
Here’s
the link to the speech at the Federal Reserve Board web site:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/duke20101019a.htm
And
here’s a link to a pdf of that speech:
http://www.rogerseconomics.com/Indicators/DukeSpeech19Oct10.pdf
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