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The Federal Reserve and Shared Prosperity: A Guide to the Policy Issues and Institutional Challenges

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The Federal Reserve is a hugely powerful institution whose policies ramify with enormous effect throughout the economy. In the wake of the Great Recession, monetary policy focused on quantitative easing. Now, there is talk of normalizing monetary policy and interest rates. That conversation is important, but it is also too narrow and keeps policy locked into a failed status quo. There is need for a larger conversation regarding the entire framework for monetary policy and how central banks can contribute to shared prosperity. It is doubtful the US can achieve shared prosperity without the policy cooperation of the Fed. That makes understanding the Federal Reserve, the policy issues and institutional challenges, of critical importance.

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  • Thomas I. Palley, 2015. "The Federal Reserve and Shared Prosperity: A Guide to the Policy Issues and Institutional Challenges," IMK Working Paper 146-2015, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute.
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