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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the Federal Reserve Bank and examines its relationship to Wall Street. Several events between 1998 and 2000 are examined to evaluate the specific relationship between interest rate hikes and market movements. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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up and down the spines of investors. Why? Although monetary policy in the U.S. has relied on a system where there is to an extent government intervention, when Alan Greenspan
talks, people get nervous. Yes, there is a correlation between the moves made by the Fed and the stock market. Questions about the operation of the Fed then do
crop up. How and when do they adjust the short term interest rate and how does it affect the money supply? When, why and how has the Fed been able
to enact such a policy? The answer briefly, although the questions will be explored further, has to do with history. One would have to go as far back as
1913 when the Fed was first established. The Federal Reserve System, established by Congress, is the central banking system of the United States ("Federal" PG). The reason it exists
is due to the bank failures that caused panic during 1907 (PG). In order to understand panic and bank failures, one just needs to view the popular film Its A
Wonderful Life. But real life was serious in 1907 with a depression and widespread banking failures that led to a proposal for the Federal Reserve System (PG). The
Federal Reserve was seen as a system that would manage the nations money supply to avoid panics, inflation and deflation and it has expanded through the years ("Federal" PG). The
system allowed operations for handling reserve balances for commercial banks, clearing and collecting checks, providing emergency credit for commercial banks and providing a host of services for the government (PG).
It was also given the authority to influence the reserve positions of member commercial banks (PG). The plan sounded good but the FRB was not always successful. In 1928
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