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The Federal Reserve and its Price Controlling Efforts

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Items which cost $1 in 1980 now cost $2.67. Do you believe that, the U.S. Federal Reserve has not done so well on controlling prices or price stability?

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If you are asking for an opinion, then I think the U.S. Federal Reserve has done as well as they could to protect prices and price stability. Other factors, recession, capitalism, and opening of world markets would seem to be more to blame than the Reserve. For the last thirty years they have managed to control inflation when other countries and regions were experiencing high inflation rates and making a mess of the economies.

The first factor that has occupied the Federal Reserve more than it should was recessions. These seem to happen with some regularity and are often caused by external forces to the U.S. Thailand and ...

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