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April 1967

1966—A Year of Challenge for Monetary Management

by Elaine R. Goldstein and Leonall C. Andersen

Rapidly changing economic conditions and demands on financial markets required great flexibility in implementing monetary policy in 1966. This need for flexibility led to several significant innovations in the Federal Reserve’s conduct of open market operations. It also led to some new methods of employing regulations and other actions to complement open market operations.