Federal Open Market Committee
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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) within the United States Federal Reserve System is responsible for open market operations as a tool in effecting the central bank's monetary policy.
The Federal Open Market Committee has twelve members: the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating basis.
- 3 tools of US monetary policy
- "The Federal Reserve controls the three tools of monetary policy--open market operations, the discount rate, and reserve requirements. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is responsible for the discount rate and reserve requirements, and the Federal Open Market Committee is responsible for open market operations. Using the three tools, the Federal Reserve influences the demand for, and supply of, balances that depository institutions hold at Federal Reserve Banks and in this way alters the federal funds rate. The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions lend balances at the Federal Reserve to other depository institutions overnight.
- Changes in the federal funds rate trigger a chain of events that affect other short-term interest rates, foreign exchange rates, long-term interest rates, the amount of money and credit, and, ultimately, a range of economic variables, including employment, output, and prices of goods and services."
- (Source - FOMC).
See also
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Central bank
- Federal funds futures (FFF)
- Federal Funds Rate
- Federal Reserve System
- Governing Council of the European Central Bank
- Great Recession
- Monetary policy
- Monetary Policy Committee
- Open market operations
