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WSJ | Fitch Report: Fed’s Reverse Repos Are Reshaping the Securities-Borrowing Market
Although it’s only in a testing phase, a Federal Reserve program aimed at improving central bank control over short-term interest rates is already reshaping the markets where dealers go to finance their bond-trading positions.
WSJ | What the Gap Between CPI and PCE Means for Fed Overshooting
One of the biggest debates right now over the outlook for inflation is whether the Federal Reserve would allow inflation to overshoot its target – that is, allow inflation to rise above 2% for some period of time. Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and San Francisco Fed President John Williams have argued perhaps it should.
Library of Economics | The Fed at 100: A century of procyclical policy
Up until 2008 I had a sort of "Whig view" of Fed history. They made many mistakes, but learned enough from those mistakes to gradually improve. Now I'm not so sure.