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Fed governor Olson resigns Board to lead PCAOB
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New Board web site targets middle schoolers
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Membership changes announced on Federal Reserve Board
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Arrivals and departures shape Federal Reserve Board
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Ferguson and Gramlich join Fed Board of Governors
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Board appointees make full roster
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New Fed chair has Southern roots
Ben S. Bernanke, the new chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, discovered his fondness for numbers during his boyhood in Georgia and South Carolina.
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The Federal Reserve Board before Marriner Eccles (1931-1934)
A history of the evolution of political economy models in the early 1930s--crucial years of change in the supervision and regulation of the financial industry--outlining the policies of the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations, the change of focus in the Federal Reserve Board from corporate-statist economic initiatives to an orthodox Keynesian outlook, and the push toward centralizing the monetary powers of the Federal Reserve System at the Board.
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The Federal Reserve as an informed foreign-exchange trader: 1973-1995
If official interventions convey private information useful for price discovery in foreign-exchange markets, then they should have value as a forecast of near-term exchange-rate movements. Using a set of standard criteria, we show that approximately 60 percent of all U.S. foreign-exchange interventions between 1973 and 1995 were successful in this sense. This percentage, however, is no better than random. U.S. intervention sales and purchases of foreign exchange were incapable of forecasting dollar appreciations or depreciations. U.S. interventions, however, were associated with more moderate ...