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Essays 31 - 60

Macroeconomic Issues

Three answers are supplied for questions asked by the student. The first answer explains how the economy is affected by the finan...

The Functions of the Federal Reserve

equates to the setting of interest rates for federal and treasury securities (Federal Reserve, 2007). The impact is due to the w...

Business Performance and the Impact of Monetary Policy

but slowly add facilities and workers. This reduces unemployment rates, creating an environment in which employers need to compet...

U.S. Economy During the 1970s

utilization of monetary policy as implicit (1999). Authors suggest that monetary policy is in fact most responsible for what has ...

The Social Significance of Alan Greenspan

this issue. In understanding his importance, some biographical information is useful. Alan Greenspan was born in 1926 and was ra...

Alan Greenspan and U.S. Interest Rates

March 2002 to a national rate of 5.7 percent. In April, unemployment rose to 6.0 percent. Current Indicators...

Overview of America's Federal Reserve System

of paper money, serves as banker for both the government and commercial banks, and acts as lender of last resort. The latter, in t...

Stock Market and the Influence of Technology

except that a certain financier over extended himself and caused several banks to fail that had extended him credit. This particul...

America's Monetary System

their health and their morality. How can something that fits in the palm of ones hand evoke such cultural tension and strife? To ...

MONEY AND INTEREST RATES

might include leading inflation indicators, such as unemployment reports (low unemployment can lead to higher inflation); employme...

The Lovable and Hated Alan Greenspan

colleges and universities including Harvard, Yale, Colgate, Leuven in Belgium, Wake Forest, Notre Dame and Pennsylvania universiti...

Predicting the US Federal Reserve System

that a slowdown would soon be under way, even though at that time the economys momentum was still very strong. The way economists...

FRB's History

economy has grown at a rate of approximately 3% anyway, after inflation (48). So the author assumes that the Fed will do a good j...

Definition and National Economic Objectives of Monetary Policy

(Federal Reserve, nd). The 12 District banks are the actual operating arm of the Federal Reserve System. Each performs numerous fu...

A History of the US' Federal Reserve System

since the late 19th century (Federal Reserve System of Minneapolis, 1988). During the Banking Panic of 1907 (the fourth in 34 year...

Great Depression's Causes

standard was a system where the different currencies were linked not to each other, but to the price of gold. For example, at one ...

THE SUB-PRIME CRISIS AND FEDERAL RESERVE

"Private labels" began moving into the securitization business, and by 2003, government-sponsored enterprises ended up as the sour...

Theories on Interest Rates

are appearing to show some signs of cooling, but the construction industry is still showing growth and house process are still inc...

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan

Carter in 1979, and none too soon. When Volcker came in to take the reigns, the U.S. economy was in a shambles. Under former direc...

US Economy, 2008

trillion as the forecast GDP in both February and March 2008, and a slight increase to $14.403 trillion in April 2008 (U.S. Gross ...

Steadying Interest Rates

Consumer Price Index. The CPI has increased over the last quarter, but it still remains lower than in early 2003 when interest...

A Review of an Article on the Global Economy and Federal Reserve

for other countries there will also be an increase. The aspect of interests rates is also important when it comes to managing th...

The Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and How They Have Evolved

1990s but now absent--is a framework of procedural rules to help fiscal policy makers make the difficult decisions that are requir...

American Economy from 1990 to 2000 and Interest Rates

consumer demand (Delong 60). Slowly, unemployment rates continued to sink until they hit an all-time low of 4 percent during the ...

NEW DEAL LEGISLATION AND THE CURRENT RECESSION

Deal legislation which was created to help the economy move some 70 years ago. Well also examine the erosion of that legislation, ...

BANKING PANICS AND CREATION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

and Granting Annuities (Moen and Tallman, 2003). Still, the bank, during its infancy, created storms of controversy, as those in p...

FEDERAL RESERVE AND COMPARISON WITH STATES

This 6-page paper compares revenues from the Federal Reserve of San Fransisco to some of the states for which it is responsible. B...

Monetary Policy And The Federal Reserve

the past two or three decades, there has been a great deal of money created from borrowing and spending. Consider the level of con...

The Economy and the Behavior of the Federal Reserve

it is a store of value because people are able to use money during another period of time (Mankiw, 2004). Money acts as a symbol o...

December 2000 Conference on Corporate Governance

In fourteen pages this Federal Reserve Bank sponsored conference with SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt as keynote speaker is examined wi...