Errors in Money Supply Figures: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, October 29, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 66 pages |
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... weekly statistics, and we need accurate statistics. The weekly money supply figures long have been suspect. In an article by Courtenay C. Stone and Jeffrey B. C. Olson in the December 1078 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, large ...
... weekly statistics, and we need accurate statistics. The weekly money supply figures long have been suspect. In an article by Courtenay C. Stone and Jeffrey B. C. Olson in the December 1078 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, large ...
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... weekly report. Even in a bank the. size of Manufacturers Hanover, such an error ought to be obvious to whoever at the Fed compiles such data. Indeed, even if the error was a repeated daily error of $3 billion rather than a 1-day error ...
... weekly report. Even in a bank the. size of Manufacturers Hanover, such an error ought to be obvious to whoever at the Fed compiles such data. Indeed, even if the error was a repeated daily error of $3 billion rather than a 1-day error ...
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... Weekly variations in the money supply obviously would have a minimal impact on such operations. Indeed, the new approach would, if anything, make operations even less sensitive to short-run, weekly money stock variations than our former ...
... Weekly variations in the money supply obviously would have a minimal impact on such operations. Indeed, the new approach would, if anything, make operations even less sensitive to short-run, weekly money stock variations than our former ...
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... weekly money supply data. Fourth, the basic reason for the volatility of weekly figures inheres in the vast daily flow of payments that move through our banking system. To gage the reliability of daily and weekly data reported to us by ...
... weekly money supply data. Fourth, the basic reason for the volatility of weekly figures inheres in the vast daily flow of payments that move through our banking system. To gage the reliability of daily and weekly data reported to us by ...
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... weekly data are very slippery ; they change every year. And for that reason I myself do not use the weekly money supply data, except as a building block, to arrive at successive monthly estimates on tiie money supply. I have said that ...
... weekly data are very slippery ; they change every year. And for that reason I myself do not use the weekly money supply data, except as a building block, to arrive at successive monthly estimates on tiie money supply. I have said that ...
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Page 14 - Act contained shall be construed to prohibit such notes, drafts, and bills of exchange, secured by staple agricultural products, or other goods, wares, or merchandise from being eligible for such discount...
Page 12 - Each Federal reserve bank shall keep itself informed of the general character and amount of the loans and investments of its member banks with a view to ascertaining whether undue use is being made of bank credit for the speculative carrying of or trading in securities, real estate, or commodities, or for any other purpose inconsistent with the maintenance of sound credit conditions...
Page 18 - But the discount of bills of exchange drawn in good faith against actually existing values, and the discount of commercial or business paper actually owned by the person negotiating the same, shall not be considered as money borrowed.
Page 13 - Except as thus provided, no member bank shall keep on deposit with any nonmember bank a sum in excess of ten per centum of its own paid-up capital and surplus. No member bank shall act as the medium or agent of a nonmember bank in applying for or receiving discounts from a Federal reserve bank under the provisions of this Act except by permission of the Federal Reserve Board.
Page 17 - System, extend to each member bank such discounts, advancements, and accommodations as may be safely and reasonably made with due regard for the claims and demands of other member banks, the maintenance of sound credit conditions, and the accommodation of commerce, industry, and agriculture.
Page 15 - Any member bank may accept drafts or bills of exchange drawn upon it and growing out of transactions involving the importation or exportation of goods having not more than six months...
Page 13 - To buy and sell in the open market, under the direction and regulations of the Federal Open Market Committee, any obligation which is a direct obligation of, or fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, any agency of the United States.
Page 14 - Upon the indorsement of any of its member banks, which shall be deemed a waiver of demand, notice, and protest by such bank as to its own indorsement exclusively...
Page 15 - The discount and rediscount and the purchase and sale by any Federal reserve bank of any bills receivable and of domestic and foreign bills of exchange, and of acceptances authorized by this Act, shall be subject to such restrictions, limitations, and regulations as may be imposed by the Federal Reserve Board.
Page 18 - The total liabilities to any association, of any person, or of any company, corporation, or firm for money borrowed, including, in the liabilities of...