Or you could look at contemporary books on Federal Reserve history. Allan H. Meltzer’s official history of the Federal Reserve, in three volumes from the University of Chicago Press finished in ...

The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the U.S. But why do we even have it in the first place? 'The Fed' regulates inflation and employment by adjusting monetary policy. It prevents economic ...

Bernanke and Blinder, both former U.S. Federal Reserve officials, have written complementary books on the history of central banking and macroeconomic policy in the United States. In contrast to ...

When he was president, he berated the Federal Reserve for keeping interest rates ... But political meddling with the Fed had a long history before the modern era. Though the act of Congress ...

He currently researches and teaches economic sociology and the social studies of finance at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland.Adam's new book ... brief history of the Federal Reserve ...

Today on the show, three Indicators: a short history of the Federal Reserve and why it's insulated from day-to-day politics; how the Fed amassed a ton of power in recent years; and a Trump ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. As the U.S. Federal Reserve kept its benchmark federal funds rate unchanged at ...

Forbes Advisor has compiled this history as a handy guide to the course of the federal funds rate and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decisions since 1990. The federal funds rate is the ...