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Summary Of Chapter 17

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The chapter 17 of our textbook started with a memoir overview of the Fed addressing the pre and post-1980 situations. Before 1980 the Fed appeared to be ineffective due to its engagement in pro-cyclical monetary policies, which was by increasing the money supply and decreasing interest rates. The reproach here was that the opposite should have been done and that the open market operations were ignored. Furthermore, the trade-off the banks face is between a loose policy to help unemployment and investment or a tighter one by increasing interest rates for example to stabilize inflation. The Fed compared to the CEB has the task to promote employment and therefore it handles this trade-off issue on a case by case basis. The chapter continued by
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