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    The Federal Reserve System regulates the economy of the United States through monetary policy. For instance, the “Fed” keeps the federal fund rate low to provide lower mortgages, increases investments, and boosts the economy. Alternatively, the Fed manages the economy when the opposite effects take place. When the federal fund rate is high the mortgages increase, reduces investments, and will slow the economy, which means the Fed has to manipulate the interest rates and try to shape economic potentials

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    Growing up as a child, people have been told the economic is dead; none of us should be wasting time to understand it. Most us have been lived poor, which is related to the economic. Most of us know the meaning of the economic. Economic describe us by our social status and human behavior. Most girls would not date guys if he is not making enough to pay his bills or her bills. Money is the root of all evil; we even call it marketing, currency, trade, traffic, and industry. Money was here before my

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    The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It performs five general functions to promote the effective use of the U.S economy. They work to provide fallback on banks and ensure banker’s money up to 250,000 in each bank. It tries to provide security and stability in the economy and trust in the nation’s banks and minimizes risk involved in trusting the US banking system. The chairman is Jerome H. Powell, with the vice chairman being Randal K. Quarles. There are 12 main districts

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    U.s. Federal Reserve Act

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    the loss in value of currency throughout the years, the Federal Reserve changes either the inflation or the interest rates so that prices will be able to balance the debt amount. With actions like such, there are purposes sought by the Federal Reserve Act set toward “the Board of Governors and the Federal Open Market Committee…: to promote… the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates” (Federal Reserve). These are a matter of acts under the monetary policy

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    supply, being economically strong in the world’s economy is an attribute that the government continue to strive to maintain. Although theories leading to the Federal Reserve are controversial basic knowledge is important. This paper explores the monetary policies tools of the open market operations, discount rates, and the required reserve ratio. In the context monetary policies will be identified, explained, and the usages noted. Also highlighted is how the monetary policies are used to balance

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    he Federal Reserve or the Fed is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was formed in 1913 by the U.S. Congress following the formation of the Federal Reserve Act which was created after a series of financial panics e.g. the severe panic in 1907. Before that, the U.S did not have any organization whose sole purpose was to study and implement monetary policy. It made markets unstable and the public had little faith in the banking system (Binder, 2013). The Fed as an independent

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    Introduction One of the core mandates of the Federal Reserve is to maintain stable long-term interest rates, and the Fed’s ability to do so is predicated on a well-functioning Treasury market. The Federal Reserve enters the Treasury market when conducting open market operations to match the federal funds rate to the target rate established by the Federal Open Market Committee. During temporary open market operations, the Federal Reserve utilizes repurchase agreements (repos) and reverse repurchase

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    We learned last week that the Open Market Operations was the Federal reserves most often used tool to enact an expansionary monetary policy. However, that is not to imply that this is an exact science and the only way the Federal Reserve keeps control over the economy.To answer the question; Why the simultaneous targeting of the money supply and interest rates is sometimes impossible to achieve? There are several factors, the first of which is aggregate demand for money, while in theory when interest

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    1944, the U.S dollar became the world’s currency. Bretton Woods agreement was basically an agreement on which every country currency would be back up by the dollar, due to the fact that after WWII United States was the only one with the biggest gold reserve in the world. Although it was proposed as a good idea it had its flaws for one even though it help the U.S and other countries there was simply not enough gold to continue backing up the dollar value. Which lead to President Richard Nixon to abolish

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    The markets in a post-QE world: What you need to know The United States Federal Reserve has been conducting open market operations in the financial markets since 2008 in order to drive down interest rates and promote economic growth following the 2007-08 financial crisis. The subsequent recession, dubbed the Great Recession, destroyed $19 trillion in household wealth and nearly 9 million jobs. The highly controversial quantitative easing (QE) program, which refers to the process of introducing new

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