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MONETARY POLICY LINKS, U.S.

MONETARY POLICY

(Direct links to Federal Reserve Board and Fed Bank sites below)

• Monetary Policy Home Page for Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• "Beige Book" Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Statement and Minutes
• Federal Reserve Board minutes of discount rate approval meetings for requests by regional Fed Banks
• Federal Open Market Committee, Members, Calendar and Other General Info
• Fed Web Page, Credit and Liquidity Programs and the Balance Sheet
• Federal Reserve Board Members Speeches and Testimony
• Monetary Policy Report to the Congress (formerly Humphrey-Hawkins Report), Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Monetary Trends magazine, Data, Charts, and Commentary from St. Louis Fed
• Historical Changes of the Federal Funds Rates & the Discount Rate (1971-Present)
• Federal Reserve Discount Rate, Current and LONG History
• Fed Interest Rates Paid on Required and Excess Reserves
• Federal Reserve Board H.15 Report, Daily Update, Selected Interest Rates
• Money stock and debt measures, H.6, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Reserve balances, factors affecting; Federal Reserve Board of Governors, H.4.1
• Reserves, aggregate, of monetary institutions and the monetary base; Federal Reserve Board of Governors, H.3
• Primary dealer information, New York Fed

Fed Officials’ Speeches

• Chairman Bernanke and other Federal Reserve Board Governors

Federal Reserve Bank Presidents

• Atlanta: Dennis P. Lockhart
• Boston: Eric S. Rosengren
• Chicago: Charles L. Evans
• Cleveland: Sandra Pianalto
• Dallas: Richard W. Fisher
• Kansas City: Thomas M. Hoenig
• Minneapolis: Narayana Kocherlakota
• New York: William C. Dudley
• Philadelphia: Charles I. Plosser
• Richmond: Jeffrey M. Lacker
• St. Louis: James B. Bullard
• San Francisco: Janet L. Yellen

• “What’s Next”—Federal Reserve Board’s list of upcoming speeches, congressional testimony,

Federal Open Market Committee material, and statistical releases issued less frequently than weekly

The Fed chairman occasionally testifies before Congress and generally the two relevant committees are the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs and the House Committee on Financial Services. Check the below links for their schedules on hearings.

• U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs, committee schedule
• U.S. House Committee on Financial Services, committee schedule

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM HOME PAGES

• Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

DATA:

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Principal Economic Indicators

- Consumer Credit - G.19

- Factors Affecting Reserve Balances - H.4.1

- Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

- Money Stock Measures - H.6

Bank Asset Quality

- Charge-Off and Delinquency Rates on Loans and Leases at Commercial Banks

- Shared National Credit Program

- Survey of the Performance and Profitability of CRA-Related Lending

Bank Assets and Liabilities

- Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary Base - H.3

- Agricultural Finance Databook - E.15

- Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks in the U.S. - H.8

- Country Exposure Lending Survey - E.16

- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data

- Senior Financial Officer Survey

- Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices

- Survey of Terms of Business Lending - E.2 Bank Structure Data

- Large Commercial Banks

- Minority-Owned Banks

- Structure and Share Data for the U.S. Offices of Foreign Banks

Business Finance

- Commercial Paper

- Corporate Medium-Term Notes

- Finance Companies - G.20

- Survey of Small Business Finances

Exchange Rates and International Data

- Country Exposure Lending Survey - E.16

- Foreign Exchange Rates -

- Structure and Share Data for U.S. Offices of Foreign Banks

Flow of Funds Accounts

- Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States - Z.1 Household Finance

- Consumer Credit - G.19

- Finance Companies - G.20

- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data

- Household Debt Service and Financial Obligations Ratios

- Survey of Consumer Finances

Industrial Activity

- Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17

Interest Rates

- Selected Interest Rates - H.15 daily | weekly

Money Stock and Reserve Balances

- Aggregate Reserves of Depository Institutions and the Monetary Base - H.3

- Factors Affecting Reserve Balances - H.4.1

- Money Stock Measures - H.6

- U.S. Reserve Assets/Foreign Official Assets Held at Federal Reserve Banks

Other

- Holidays Observed by the Federal Reserve, 2006-2010

- Selected Interest Rates -- Monthly (G.13) - discontinued

- Statistical Release Publications History

NON-U.S. CENTRAL BANKS

• Via Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

NON-U.S. MONETARY POLICY, DIRECT LINKS

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