The Federal Reserve slashed the federal funds rate in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The full impact of the pandemic on the economy is still uncertain and depends on many factors.

Monetary policy has been tighter than FOMC members intended. ... The conventional view of monetary policy maintains ... To Read the Full Story. Join NRPlus Login. Share 10 Comments .

Nonetheless, the conventional story persists to this day. ... Regardless, president Eisenhower pressured Martin to ease monetary policy during the 1953-1954 recession, ...

"Unconventional monetary policy measures cannot fully substitute for conventional monetary policy measures that control short-term interest rates," it concluded.

Introduction: the return of conventional monetary policy. After seeing near-zero interest rates in major economies in the aftermath of COVID-19, the world economy has experienced rapid monetary ...

When central banks run out of conventional monetary policy tools, they still have some alternatives to spur economic growth. Quantitative easing (QE) allows a central bank to purchase longer-term ...

The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, has raised serious reservations on the risks private stablecoinsparticularly those created by commercial bankspose to financial stability and the ...

This tool should therefore be used sparingly, after conventional monetary policy has proven ineffective, and only by a central bank that is independent, and whose independence is not threatened.

In times of standard monetary policy, excess reserves are near or at the minimum required or zero. As of December 31, 2006, before the global financial crisis, depository institution deposits were ...

The Bank of Canada lowered its policy rate to its effective lower bound (0.25 per cent) and then turned to less conventional monetary policy like quantitative easing — buying up government bonds at ...