Monetary Policy
What Is Quantitative Easing?
The Federal Reserve's tool known as quantitative easing works by adding liquidity to the economy. The Fed does this by buying Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.
Expansionary Monetary Policy
Understand exactly how expansionary monetary policy stimulates the economy out of recession.
Monetary Policy
The Federal Reserve and monetary policy
What Is the Money Supply, and How Does It Affect the Economy?
How the money supply is affected by monetary policy.
Restrictive Monetary Policy
How the Fed uses restrictive monetary policy.
LIBOR Rate History
The historical LIBOR interest rate chart shows that LIBOR rates usually are close to the Fed Funds rate - except during the bank credit crisis of 2008.
What Is the Gold Standard, and How Would a Return Affect the U.S. Economy?
What the gold standard is, the history of the gold standard, and why a return to the gold standard would adversely affect the U.S. economy.
What Is the History of the Gold Standard?
A brief history of the gold standard. When the U.S. went off the gold standard, and why.
Monetarism
The Federal Reserve and monetary policy
Hyperinflation
Hyperinflation is caused when the money supply is expanded, usually to pay for a war, at the same time the supply of goods is reduced.
Bretton Woods International Monetary System and 1944 Agreement
What was the Bretton Woods International Monetary System? How did it launch the U.S. dollar as the new world currency.
What Is an Economic Depression?
How expansive monetary policy and inflation targeting can prevent another depression. How contractionary monetary policy created the last depression.
Types of Inflation
The Federal Reserve must develop monetary policy to fight all different types of inflation. Find out what they are, from hyperinflation to stagflation, and how you can protect yourself.
What Is a Currency War?
Some critics accuse the Federal Reserve of trying to win a currency war by constantly devaluing the dollar.