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| 1 | U.S. banking before the Federal Reserve | 7 |
| 2 | The Aldrich-Vreeland act prevents a panic in 1914 | 21 |
| 3 | Original uncertainty regarding exercise of Fed authority | 25 |
| 4 | The Federal Reserve's role in World War I | 29 |
| 5 | The discovery of a new tool for the Federal Reserve | 35 |
| 6 | The Fed in the 1920s | 41 |
| 7 | The Fed in the 1929-1933 contraction | 47 |
| 8 | Policy changes in the Roosevelt administration | 61 |
| 9 | The Fed's role in World War II | 77 |
| 10 | The Fed between World War II and the Korean War | 85 |
| 11 | The Korean War and the accord with the treasury | 91 |
| 12 | "Bills only" as an act of independence | 97 |
| 13 | Operation Twist and President Kennedy's tax cut | 107 |
| 14 | Chairman Martin's battle with President Johnson over inflation | 111 |
| 15 | Nixon replaces Martin with burns and inflicts price controls on the economy | 119 |
| 16 | Supply shocks in the 1970s make unemployment and inflation worse | 125 |
| 17 | Carter replaces Burns with Miller and inflation worsens | 131 |
| 18 | The Volcker era begins and the Fed gets control over all banks | 137 |
| 19 | Volcker's Fed slows inflation at a cost | 145 |
| 20 | Volcker is reappointed but there are changes on the board | 153 |
| 21 | The Greenspan era begins | 161 |
| 22 | The Fed's response to the thrift crisis | 167 |
| 23 | Economics dominate the board under Greenspan | 173 |
| 24 | Changes in the Fed's operating procedure after the 1980s | 185 |
| App. A | Membership of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve system, 1913-2003 | 199 |
| App. B | Persons serving as chairman of the board of governors | 202 |
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the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System have reached full accord with respect to debt management and monetary policies to be pursued in furthering their common purpose to assure the successful financing of the Government's requirements and, at the same time, to minimize monetization of the public debt. - Page 93
Appears in 65 books from 1908-2007
Treasury certificates be dealt in, as at present, under so-called 'repurchase' agreement. In order to provide for the proper administration of the policy defined above, the Board rules that on and after April 1, 1923, the present committee of governors on centralized execution of purchases and sales of government securities be discontinued, and be superseded by a new committee known as the... - Page 37
Appears in 24 books from 1926-2005
Corporation (RTC), the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF), and the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF). - Page 167
Appears in 60 books from 1923-2007
... monetary policy is like a string; you can pull on it but you can't push on it. - Page 74
Appears in 8 books from 1947-2004
Hoover's spirited objections were successful in 1925 in blocking an expansion of credit by the Federal Reserve Board, under pressure from foreign and domestic sources: Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, Charles Rist of the Bank of France, Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank, Bertil Ohlin of Sweden. In a letter to one of the Reserve governors, referring to policies then under consideration, Hoover declared: "As to the effects of these Reserve... - Page 43
Appears in 7 books from 1948-2004
Just as central banks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS... - Page 153
Appears in 25 books from 1954-2007
OMB director, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, and the secretary of the Treasury, for example) sometimes testifying together or on consecutive days before many different committees. - Page 93
Appears in 12 books from 1971-2004
... of the bill so completely by surprise as this one, or better indicated the general atmosphere of suspicion. This provision was promptly dropped, and the law allowed to stand as before. In the final Act, by changes introduced in the Senate under the leadership of Senator Glass, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller of the Currency were removed from the Board, and as a further safeguard the Reserve banks were expressly prohibited from buying government securities except in the open... - Page 76
Appears in 11 books from 1935-2006
... agencies ' the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, and the FDIC. - Page 169
Appears in 5 books from 1949-2004
Each federal reserve bank was to be governed by a board of . nine directors, six of whom were elected by the member banks and three of whom were appointed by the Federal Reserve Board. The federal reserve banks were to be bankers - Page 19
Appears in 6 books from 1932-2004
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