The Fed: The Inside Story How World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives Markets

作者: Martin Mayer

出版社: Plume

出版时间: 2005-12

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780452283411

装帧: 平装

开本: 其他

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 350页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>文学

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To most investors, the Fed is one person Chairman Alan Greenspan whose job is to set interest rates. In this entertaining and enlightening account, popular financial journalist Mayer (The Bankers; The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery) traces the evolution of the Federal Reserve from a sleepy regulatory agency to the most powerful economic institution in the world. Created in 1913, the Fed was designed to regulate banks in an era when they, and not the government, were assumed to control the economy; interest-rate setting was only a minor part of the agency's job. With the rise of a global economy in which individual banks no longer wield their former influence, the Fed has completely reinvented itself. Mayer, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, tells of turf battles with the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in addition to conflicts with bankers and foreign institutions. Although his tale involves extensive discussion of topics like check clearing, reserve assets and regulatory accounting, and most of the protagonists are staid, Mayer livens things up with irreverent character sketches, flamboyant prose (considering the subject matter) and canny storytelling. At the same time, he presents the historical and economic details accurately. (June Forecast: Written with the verve of a Vanity Fair magazine article, and supported by a 20-city radio satellite tour, this very topical book should attract fans of Mayer's previous books, in addition to investors who wish to make sense of the Fed's role in the market. Martin Mayer is a premier financial journalist with more than thirty books to his credit, including The Bankers and The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. Mayer is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, and a popular columnist for OnMoney.com. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. PART ONE: MAGIC TRICKS

  Chapter 1: The Magan on the World Stage

  Chapter 2: The MagiNan at Home

PART TWO：CENTRAL BANKS

  Chapter 3: H/hat Is a Central Bank?

  Chapter 4: The Question of Independence

PART THREE: AVOIDING CATASTROPHE

  Chapter 5: The System and Its Risks

  Chapter 6: The Amen'can Lender of Last Resort

PART FOUR: MAKING MONEY

  Chapter 8: Monetary Policy in the Maelstrom

  Chapter 9: Disaster Time

  Chapter 10: Green~Oan and the Markets

  Chapter 11: Internationally

PART FIVE: THE DAY JOBS

  Chapter 12: The Payments Franchise

  Chapter 13: Supervisions

  Chapter 14: The Fed and the Poor

PART SIX: WHATS NEXT?

  Chapter 15：The Fed in Our  Future

Notes

Index
内容简介:
To most investors, the Fed is one person Chairman Alan Greenspan whose job is to set interest rates. In this entertaining and enlightening account, popular financial journalist Mayer (The Bankers; The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery) traces the evolution of the Federal Reserve from a sleepy regulatory agency to the most powerful economic institution in the world. Created in 1913, the Fed was designed to regulate banks in an era when they, and not the government, were assumed to control the economy; interest-rate setting was only a minor part of the agency's job. With the rise of a global economy in which individual banks no longer wield their former influence, the Fed has completely reinvented itself. Mayer, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, tells of turf battles with the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in addition to conflicts with bankers and foreign institutions. Although his tale involves extensive discussion of topics like check clearing, reserve assets and regulatory accounting, and most of the protagonists are staid, Mayer livens things up with irreverent character sketches, flamboyant prose (considering the subject matter) and canny storytelling. At the same time, he presents the historical and economic details accurately. (June Forecast: Written with the verve of a Vanity Fair magazine article, and supported by a 20-city radio satellite tour, this very topical book should attract fans of Mayer's previous books, in addition to investors who wish to make sense of the Fed's role in the market.
作者简介:
Martin Mayer is a premier financial journalist with more than thirty books to his credit, including The Bankers and The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery. Mayer is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, and a popular columnist for OnMoney.com. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
目录:
PART ONE: MAGIC TRICKS

  Chapter 1: The Magan on the World Stage

  Chapter 2: The MagiNan at Home

PART TWO：CENTRAL BANKS

  Chapter 3: H/hat Is a Central Bank?

  Chapter 4: The Question of Independence

PART THREE: AVOIDING CATASTROPHE

  Chapter 5: The System and Its Risks

  Chapter 6: The Amen'can Lender of Last Resort

PART FOUR: MAKING MONEY

  Chapter 8: Monetary Policy in the Maelstrom

  Chapter 9: Disaster Time

  Chapter 10: Green~Oan and the Markets

  Chapter 11: Internationally

PART FIVE: THE DAY JOBS

  Chapter 12: The Payments Franchise

  Chapter 13: Supervisions

  Chapter 14: The Fed and the Poor

PART SIX: WHATS NEXT?

  Chapter 15：The Fed in Our  Future

Notes

Index

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