Essays on Federal Open Market Committee

Introduction

The United States established the Federal Reserve institution in 1913. This central bank was responsible for safeguarding the economy of the United States by raising and lowering the interest rates that the borrowers have to pay to the lenders (Grey, 2002). This paper will determine how exactly the Federal Reserve is controlling the interest rates. It also examines why the interest rates influence the broader economy of the U.S. However, before the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank, there was economic panic, and this was caused by emergency banking that was the common events as the prospective investors would ...

When the Federal Open Market committee met in September, information was released suggesting that the economic has expanded moderately in the past recent months. The unemployment levels remain high while the employment rate remains deprecated. The growth in business has decreased while household spending are increasing. It also revealed that inflation has picked up hence the increased energy prices. The Fed is, therefore, concerned that the economic growth may not be in a strong position, to improve the labor market conditions unless sufficient policies are implemented. They are also concerned that inflation will run under its 2% objective due to the ...

Complexities of the U.S. Financial Systems

Financial markets that operate in a smooth manner play a significant role in the contribution of a healthy and efficient economy. This role is prevalent in the accumulation of capital as well as the production of goods and services. Financial markets provide basis for the prices of credits and returns on investment to bring about indications for the producers and consumers or rather the financial markets participants (Pryor, 1996). These implications assist in directing the funds to the consumers and the government as well as investors who wish to borrow the money and connect others who ...

U.S. Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Fiscal policy

Fiscal policy denotes the use of government spending and taxation in order to steer the economy to the desired direction at a point in time. There are two types of fiscal policies, and they include the contractionary and the expansionary fiscal policies. In contractionary fiscal policies, the government enacts policies aimed at reducing the production in the economy. These could entail an increase in tax and lowering the government expenditure in the economy. On the other hand, the expansionary fiscal policies entail the policies adopted by the government with a view of increasing the overall output ...

Monetary policy

Monetary policies denotes the actions taken by the central bank (Federal Reserve) in a bid to influence money availability in the economy with the aim of achieving the nation’s economic goals. Performance of the monetary policy mandate was given to the Fed when the Federal Reserve Act (1913) came into place. The tools used by the Fed to perform the monetary policy obligations include the reserve requirements, open market operations and the discount rate. In order to perform the roles effectively, they are divided in that the board of governors are charged with overseeing the reserve requirement while the ...

Forecasting a Speedup in Growth, the Fed Again Cuts Bond Purchases

Quantitative Easing Program of Federal Reserve Bank: The article discusses the decision of the Federal Reserve Bank to taper the bond buying program and its effect on the US economy recovery and its other macro-economic decisions. The Federal Reserve took the much expected decision to cut down the bond buying program by another $10 Billion a month, restricting the bond purchase activity to $45 Billion a month from May, 2014. In response, the Federal Reserve declared that it was looking past the economic slowdown during an unusually cold winter because growth already was rebounding and with growth activity picking up ...

Higher Educational Establishment

Introduction Aggregate demand and interest rates, along with the actual economic growth and the prospects are the benchmarks of any Federal government. In order to control the economy, government uses monetary policies to analyze essential measures.

Open Market Operation

Open Market Operations involve purchase and selling of governmental securities which helps to stabilize inflation. The Federal funds rate is equal to the interest and lending rates, according to which financial institutions charge for the loans. The Domestic Open Market Operations are guided by the Federal Open Market Committee and continuing with the aid of strengthening the efforts to support economy recovery ...

Describe how the US financial markets impact the economy, businesses, and individuals.

In the United States, the financial markets play a significant role in promoting economic development. For example, the financial market has a significant impact on pension funds. Large percentages of pension funds are invested in stock market. In the event whereby the share prices record a drastic fall, the effect is reduction in pension payouts in the future. Another effect of share price is investor confidence. The share price is an indicator of a company’s performance. A reduction in share price reduces the investor confidence. This was the case in Lehman Brothers. When the share prices began reducing, the demand reduced ...

Abstract

The US Federal Reserve and the European Central bank perform the function of formulating the monetary policy of US and Euro zone. The banks use different tools to formulate the policy as discussed in the paper. The structures of these banks are analyzed. The two banks have recently adopted different security policies that have caused the US treasury to run out of funds. Federal Reserve together with other banks plays a role of controlling the money supply, and this means that the banks shape the financial system of the world. A policy adopted to delay dividends shows that these banks ...

Economics of Global Money Markets

When money became a commodity, money market became part of the financial markets for the reasons that assets that are involved in short-term buying, borrowing, selling and lending with the original maturities of about one year or less. The trade in money markets is carried out over the counter and as such it is wholesale. There are various instruments that exist and they include deposits, treasury bills, bankers’ acceptances, certificates of deposit, bills of exchange, commercial paper, federal funds, repurchase agreements and asset backed securities. This provides a funding that is liquid for the global financial system. Capital markets and money ...

The Federal Reserve which is also known as the Federal Reserve System or more commonly the Fed, is America’s central banking system that was created in 1913 following the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act. The Federal Reserve was created to provide a more stable and secure banking system in the U.S. as the regional banks and financial institutions were very much disorganized and had lost public confidence. The main goal of the Fed is to create a stable economy that is characterized by high employment and production, steady growth and stable prices. The structure of the Federal Reserve changed ...