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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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    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 primary objective of the Federal Reserve is to stabilize the monetary environment. The Federal Reserve has focused on achieving price stability and maximum employment while avoiding a recession. Within the goals of the dual mandate, the Fed encourages a target inflation rate of 2 percent and the unemployment rate between 4.5 percent and 5.0 percent to maintain a healthy economy. As of today, the inflation rate is 2.3 percent and the unemployment rate is 4.2 percent. Over the past decade, the

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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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    Depression in 1929. During this time the Federal Reserve played a huge role in assuring that it would not turn into the second Great Depression. In this paper, we will be discussing what the Federal Reserve did during this time including a discussion of our nation’s three main economic goals which are GDP, employment, and inflation. My goal is to describe the historic monetary and fiscal policy efforts undertaken by the U.S. Government and Federal Reserve including both the traditional and non-traditional

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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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    United States Dollar as Reserve Currency

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    this faith and credit is largely treasury bonds, or debt, much of which are held overseas by foreign governments. Ever since the US dollar went off the gold standard in 1971, other countries have had doubts about keeping the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The first concern was that no fiat currency has succeeded long-term. In a study of 775 fiat currencies (Mack, 2011), there was no historical precedence for a fiat currency that has succeeded in holding its value. 20 percent failed through

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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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    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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    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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