Float the Fed Funds Rate
Ben Bernanke's first anniversary as Federal Reserve chairman is nearing, so debate will heat up about the correct direction for the Fed funds rate. Although the rate debate traditionally has a binary quality (cut or hike?
Denver Sheriffs Want Federal Funds For Foreign Inmates
Several Denver metro area sheriffs are demanding that the federal government help them pay for jail inmates who are not US citizens
Fed Funds Rate Year End 2007 - InTrade-TradeSports
Price for Fed Funds Rate Year End 2007 at intrade.com
Fed to hold a steady course at 5.25% for all of 2007 and probably
Further, the "betting" on any last Fed move is usually more of an insurance hedge than an outright bet, more of a "just in case I'm wrong" kind of "bet". Finally, studies have shown that Fed funds futures are not a very reliable
The Real Minimum Wage and the Real Fed Funds Rate
But there is also a price floor on capital - its the fed funds rate. Just as few workers work at the minimum wage, most capital gets paid more than the fed funds rate, or at least the "real" fed funds rate, which would be the fed funds
Federal Funds rate remains at 5.25 percent
The federal funds target rate is the interest rate charged by banks when they borrow funds “overnight” from each other. In a prepared statement, the Fed acknowledged positive signs for moderate economic growth in the coming months,
FOMC Keeps Fed Funds Rate at 5.25%
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it will keep the Fed Funds Rate at 5.25%. The FOMC reported that economic growth seemed firmer, and that inflation was
Open Interest in Binary Options on Target Fed Funds Rate Exceed 20000
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) today announced that open interest in its Binary options on the Target Federal Funds Rate contract exceeded 20000 contracts on Wednesday, February 7
Dallas Fed: Making Sense of the US Housing Slowdown
Although the Fed began raising the federal funds rate in June 2004, mortgage rates didn’t begin to increase noticeably until the summer of 2005 (see chart ). As a result, the housing market didn’t cool in 2004.
Monetary Policy Inertia
The solid line shows the actual funds rate target from 2000 through 2006, while the dashed lines give the expected funds rate paths at various points in time based on the forward-looking fed funds futures market. fed+funds: fed+funds