Finance, Economics, and Monetary Policy


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The yield curve as leading indicator

Monetary tightening cycles

Financial supervision and regulation

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"The Federal Reserve, as one writer put it, after the recent increase in the discount rate, is in the position
of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up."

William McChesney Martin, October 19, 1955

William McChesney MartinArthur BurnsG. William MillerPaul VolckerAlan GreenspanBen Bernanke

Monthly averages. Real is effective minus CPI inflation in previous 12 months.


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