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• Spirits, markets get a lift

  - 2007-09-19

  WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve's unanimous decision to slash a key interest rate Tuesday is a dramatic statement that the central bank will do whatever it takes to prevent turmoil in the financial markets and a steep downturn in the housing sector from pulling the country into recession. ...

  Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, inflation, upshot

• What remains of monetarism?(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2001-10-01

  13 In October 1979 the Federal Reserve, in an attempt to curb double-digit inflation, announced that it would place more weight on monetary aggregates in policy deliberations. This policy shift helped reduce inflation but sent the economy into a recession. Three years ...

  Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, income, inflation, Mayer, Nelson, U.S., upshot

• What remains of monetarism?

  - 2001-10-01

  In October 1979 the Federal Reserve, in an attempt to curb double-digit inflation, announced that it would place more weight on monetary aggregates in policy deliberations. This policy shift helped reduce inflation but sent the economy into a recession. Three years later the Fed abandoned monetary targets and returned to...

  Tags: analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, income, inflation, Mayer, Nelson, U.S., upshot

• Inflation threat could burst the U.S. financial 'bubble'.

  - 1999-07-15

  Rising interest rates may threaten otherwise favorable economic conditions in the U.S., according to the economists who presented their views at NAPM's 84th Annual International Purchasing Conference in San Diego. These views contrast with those expressed by the PMs comprising NAPM's manufacturing business survey...

  Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, inflation, recovery, U.S., upshot

• Using the term structure of interest rates for monetary policy

  - 1998-07-01

  The term structure of interest rates, i.e., the yield curve, has long been of interest to monetary policymakers and their advisers. The transmission of monetary policy is conventionally viewed as running from shortterm interest rates managed by central banks to longer-term rates that influence aggregate demand. A central bank's leverage...

  Tags: bank, bond, Campbell, Cook, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, Investment, upshot

• Using the term structure of interest rates for monetary policy.

  - 1998-06-22

  The term structure of interest rates serves both as a vital link in the transmission of monetary policy and as an indicator of inflation expectations. The term structure is used here in a new application to address the "policy in the pipeline problem." Likewise, a peso-problem interpretation involving inflation scares...

  Tags: bank, bond, Campbell, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, Investment, upshot

• Some current economic issues in Canada.

  - 1996-09-01

  Needed but painful restructuring has yielded a more encouraging outlook for Canada's economy. The Bank of Canada has stuck to monetary policy aimed at avoiding inflation, government has tackled the public debt problems, and business has adjusted to the demands of new technology and global competition....

  Tags: Bank of Canada, Canada, FINANCE, inflation, upshot

• Economic trends

  - 1990-02-01

  ECONOMIC TRENDS When 1989 began, the economy was growing briskly. So much so that the Federal Reserve had been tightening credit for nearly a year in an attempt to keep inflation from heating up. Those efforts were largely successful. Since then, the economy has slowed, inflation appears to have...

  Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation, upshot