Authors:

  • Julio J. Rotemberg

Excerpt

The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles. Julio J. Rotemberg, September 1, 2014, Paper. “This paper studies the persistence and some of the consequences of the eventual abandonment by the FOMC of the principles embedded in the Federal Reserve’s Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over a focus on monetary aggregates…” Link