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the nation long ago handed over the right to print money to the Federal Reserve, it both gave up its sovereignty to this banking cartel and the limit on money supply that the gold standard gave. Nixon tried to fix this latter problem by using the oil standard—the petrodollar was born thanks to an agreement between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. in which the former would only use USD when transacting oil exchanges—which made everyone trading oil need to get USD too.
However, this prop is not as effective as a gold standard in many ways: first, the oil standard can be taken… Continue Reading...
with taxes, government spending and the general tools of the Federal Reserve Bank including the changing of the reserve ratio requirements, the discount rate and the selling of government securities. There is also the question on what happens with things like aggregate demand, gross domestic product and employment. While predicting the outcome of economic efforts and policy can sometimes be hard to pin down, there are best practices that are generally held to be better than others when economic expansion is the desired outcome.
Analysis
The typical reason for economic expansionary policies is when an economy is emerging out of… Continue Reading...
an inflation nation because of the actions undertaken by the Federal Reserve. He argues that inflation is likely to continue because the Federal Reserve control of the interest rate is nearly zero while bank reserves continue to increase enormously due to the Federal Reserve’s purchase of bonds and mortgages. Despite the assurances by the Fed and these financial institutions to lessen reserves significantly in order to prevent inflation, inflation is likely to remain in the coming years. This is primarily because there is no sound governmental policy and governmental plans like the stimulus program are likely to increase the government… Continue Reading...
the disclosure and rulemaking responsibilities for consumer credit and deposit products that previously were the responsibility of the Federal Reserve Board and other federal agencies and other responsibilities for consumer protection in financial services were consolidated under the purview of the CFPB.10
Despite the fact that some type and level of disclosures are routinely provided by most financial services organizations, these initiatives have been important for improving the overall quality of such disclosures for a number of reasons. In this regard, Hogarth and Merry emphasize that, “While many financial service firms provide product information in the absence of mandatory disclosure requirements, the presence of these requirements imposes common… Continue Reading...
other branches of the government are responsible for fiscal policy. The Federal Reserve illustrates the three major ways in which is uses monetary policy. Monetary policy reflects the amount of money that is in the economy, which in turn influences the health of that economy. The Fed sets monetary policy in line with seeking a stable rate of growth, controlled inflation and a healthy rate of job creation.
The primary means by which the Fed implements monetary policy is through open market transactions. These are the buying and selling of Treasury securities, or government debt. If the Fed wishes to increase… Continue Reading...
Easing
Quantitative easing is a fiscal policy where the United States Federal Reserve buys long-term assets, usually securitized by mortgages and also U.S. treasuries. This is done with the main aim of decreasing the long-term interest rates. Low interests also favor the individual investors. This is an advantage to the American economy as it has plenty of investments coming into the country (Cochrane, 2011). Quantitative Easing was used to stimulate the economy following the "Great Recession." At the start of the financial crisis, the European Central Bank did not decrease its rates. However, when the Lehman Brothers' institution collapsed, the ECB… Continue Reading...
a private session where they were to be briefed by the Federal Reserve chairman. The chairman told the shocked leadership that the U.S. economy was on the verge of a serious meltdown and things were probably going to take a nose dive for the worst in a few number of days. A sudden pause fell upon the room, almost as if oxygen had been sucked off it, remembers Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) (TPF, 2009).
With the housing bubble bursting and trillions of dollars in mortgages beginning to go bad in the year 2007, fear began to spread through the big firms… Continue Reading...
Federal Reserve Notes (which, it should be noted, cannot be traded in for gold—that window was closed long ago). The coinage without motto was minted from 1839 to 1866. It depicted a fatter-faced Lady Liberty, with hair flowing down the back of her head. The coinage with motto was minted from 1866-1908 and pictured the slimmer, classical beauty Lady Liberty.
The Liberty Head Half Eagle designed by Gobrecht replaced the Classic Head design which had actually been worth more in gold than its price (the effect of more inflation) and… Continue Reading...
want to put it all in Federal Reserve notes. So another action I will take to apply these insights to enhance my personal effectiveness is to look around at what assets have retained their value over time throughout history. Gold looks pretty attractive to me. However, it looks like there was a gold bubble that burst a few years back seeing how gold sold at $1800 an ounce and today it is around $1300. Buyer beware in all cases, no matter what it is and do not get caught up in panic buying. That is a… Continue Reading...
of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision—to develop, implement and oversee the set of minimum security standards that the banks and savings and loans they regulated would have to have in order to be allowed to conduct business. Each agency essentially developed and appointed the same set of standards.
The Act also obliges the agencies to direct the management of the banks so that they are more secure and in compliance with appropriate security recommendations and guidelines. The Comptroller of… Continue Reading...
services to food to housing to precious metals) has skyrocketed in recent years because of loose monetary policy coming out of the Federal Reserve (Claeys & Darvas, 2015). This policy became so loose following the Global Economic Crisis of 2008 that the Fed kept interest rates low (which punishes savers), started buying Treasury bills hand over fist (like the rest of the world’s central banks—with the ECB even dipping into corporate bonds) in order to keep the market propped up and rates low, and all that new money worked to dilute the value of the Notes already in circulation so that the purchasing power of dollar was essentially cut in half thanks… Continue Reading...
should be evaluated separately from fiscal policy. First, it is run by a different body (the Federal Reserve, rather than Congress). The Federal Reserve's most recent signals to the market are the higher interest rates will be required. This has implications for both the overall health of the economy and for the decision to buy a gas station. First, higher rates are likely because the economy is nearing full employment and thus inflation is going to be more of a concern going forward (Matthews, 2016). Second, high rates affect the cost of debt.
If inflation is a risk, higher rates will arrive, and they will serve… Continue Reading...
progress for many industrialized nations. Some of the other, prior, steps had been the creation of Federal Reserve and the introduction of monopoly protections under the Clayton Act. The objective of these different elements was to bring about some semblance of control over capitalist activities, under the recognition that when busts occurred, many people suffered, including many who were not a part of the boom in the first place. The Great Depression was another recognition of this fact as millions were thrown out of work with no social protections.
Glass-Steagall therefore did a couple of things, owing to the separation of investment and commercial banking. By… Continue Reading...
Federal Reserve, the Bank of England (BOE), the European Central Bank (ECB), and so on, all of which have printed up trillions in their own currencies to prop up markets since the Great Economic Crisis of 2008. What this means is that since the Great Economic Crisis, which has defined the past decade in terms of how monetary policy is conducted, the great central banks—the Fed, the ECB, the BOE—have engaged in a strategic policy of quantitative easing (QE), designed to send “trillions of euros [dollars, and pounds] into the… Continue Reading...
However, practically all elements of this present world has been influenced by globalization. For instance, a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco report of 2010 indicated that nearly 35.6% of the garments and footwear that are retailed in the United States originated from China. This is in comparison to barely the 3.4 % of those items that were locally made in the United States. This form of trade is shown to have advantages such as the increase in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) compared to global trading. This increase enhances technological exchange, business reformations as well as the expansion of international corporations. (Mingst and Arreguin 2011. 165)… Continue Reading...
is going to go into a recession. We are encouraged to spend rather than to save (especially since the Federal Reserve drove interest rates down to near 0% for so long, which meant that savers were essentially losing value over time because the rate of inflation was higher than the interest they were earning on their savings). So markets really dictate our thought processes, our actions (we work long hours all week in order to be able to spend and have the kind of consumerist life expected of us). The markets, meanwhile, take on a life of their own for the economy, intertwining as they do and supporting one… Continue Reading...
