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 ...

The Dual Mandate and the Balance of Risks, Federal Reserve. Accessed April 29, 2024. The History and Future of the Federal Reserve’s 2 Percent Target Rate of Inflation, Council on Foreign Relations.

Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not. Read Full Article » ...

The Federal Reserve’s key borrowing benchmark is currently ... the past can often be a guide. History, for example, shows that the Fed’s goal of “softly landing” the U.S. economy ...