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The Federal Reserve Bank controls the money supply and interest rates in the United States. How good, or bad, a job has it done over the last two years? Why? What could it or should it have done differently? Why?

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The Federal Reserve Bank controls the money supply and interest rates in the United States. How good, or bad, a job has it done over the last two years? Why? What could it or should it have done differently? Why?

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In my opinion, the federal reserve has not permed adequately over the last two (or more) years. The Federal Reserve continually states that there is no legitimate reason for the public to believe that inflation is a problem, or that it is a potential problem on the horizon, however, since 2010, the price of certain commodities have more than doubled in price, including the skyrocketing of oil prices, which continues to periodically climb. The Federal Reserve believes in increasing the debt ceiling. This would do ...

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