Policy

The Federal Reserve launched quantitative easing in November 2008, buying 600 billion in mortgage ba...

Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker raised the federal funds rate to 20 percent in 1981 to kill in...

The Greenspan Put refers to the perceived tendency of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to cut...

In November 2002, Federal Reserve Governor Ben Bernanke gave a speech about preventing deflation. He...

In 1991, Argentina established a currency board pegging the peso to the US dollar at 1 to 1. The peg...