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April 1974

The Federal Open Market Committee in 1973

by Anatol Balbach and Jerry L. Jordan

At all but one meeting throughout the first eight months of 1973, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) issued a directive calling for slower growth in monetary aggregates. During the last two meetings of the year, with information on the likely consequence of the oil shortage continuing to be assessed, the Committee sought “to achieve some easing in bank reserve and money market conditions.”