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The FOMC in 1990: Onset of Recession - Review

James B. Bullard presents this Review's annual synopsis of the recent actions of the Federal Open Market Committee, the prime policymaking group in the Federal Reserve System.

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The 1990 Oil Price Hike in Perspective - Review

John A. Tatom discusses several popular but misleading perceptions about the changing effects of oil price shocks on the U.S. economy and policymakers’ response to such changes in the past. The author explains that the principal channel of influence of higher energy prices is a loss in economic capacity and productivity.

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U.S. Policy in the Bretton Woods Era - Review

Allan H. Meltzer, John M. Olin Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses U.S. international economic policy during the Bretton Woods era. His article, which was presented in St. Louis on April 8, 1991, as the fifth annual Homer Jones Memorial Lecture, reviews the roles of the U.S. as the world’s strongest economy and the dollar as its reserve currency in a system of fixed exchange rates.

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