Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Don’t Be Surprised if Trump Starts Attacking the Fed
Forewarned is forearmed: It will be bad-faith bullying.
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I'm in the dumbest situation. I was a federal employee so I don't know what normal people mean when they say the Fed.
Every comment is only calling it the Fed.
I've read too many New York Time articles to see what we are talking about because I'm not subscribed.
Not just asking for me but for anybody in a similar situation; what is the full organization name of the Fed?
The Federal Reserve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve
Which coincidentally, is not part of the federal government.
It's definitely part of the federal government. It has more independence than a department of the executive branch, but it's not quite it's own branch of government either (it has no checks against the actual branches) The idea is that it needs to be run by economists and be somewhat insulated from politics.
Overall, they do a pretty good job, and are one of the more competent parts of the government
After reading https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm, it seems you are right from an official standpoint. Since the board is "appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate" and how together the fed and "Congress sets the goals for monetary policy".
Although a lot of the other justifications for it being a government agency seems to follow some flimsy logic.
I guess it's not entirely a private entity since it has those 2 government approval requirements. But at the same time they seem to operate as one and are given a lot of freedom.
It's not like congress or the president approved of the recent interest rate increases. Which directly increased the cost of paying off the national debt. There is clearly some balancing happening.
Federal Reserve System, often shorted to 'the Fed'
Thanks. For some reason I was trying to make an acronym out of it. That's what I do for every other government agency.