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… Continue Reading...
overall topic including what should be done 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… Continue Reading...
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… Continue Reading...
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… Continue Reading...
the economy. Monetary policy is conducted by central banks, while 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… Continue Reading...
2016).
How long of an effect will Quantitative Easing have on the U.S. economy?
In the 2014 fiscal year, the Federal Reserve ended QE3 and that was the culmination of the Fed's bond buying program. From 2008 to 2014, the Fed purchased mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds worth $4.5 trillion. However, the Fed went on to draw down on its purchases progressively, until it got to the zero level. However, it is imperative to note that the Fed is still undertaking Stealth Quantitative Easing. This takes into account purchasing more bonds with the interest that the Federal Reserve attains on the bonds that it has already bought. Therefore, this… Continue Reading...
Congress were gathered for 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… Continue Reading...
agencies, consisting 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… Continue Reading...
to education to medical 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… Continue Reading...
reasons why monetary policy 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… Continue Reading...
the 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… Continue Reading...
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… Continue Reading...
