One consequence is that Fed officials now try to avoid it.

But, unlike private investors, Fed officials insist that this time really will be different.

Yet many Fed officials clearly failed to recognize the significance of what was unfolding.

And, while the law mandates the Fed to ensure sustainable growth as well as low inflation, monetary officials recognize that sustainable growth requires price stability.

Fed Up with the Fed

EULEX s effort has received vocal support from a Kosovar public that is fed up with corruption, and counting on the investigations to yield arrests of dirty officials.

When the Fed initially hinted at its intention to taper QE, policymakers in some emerging economies cried foul, but were dismissed by advanced economy officials as chronic complainers.

Fed officials, for their part, must better justify their actions. While they would prefer not to re litigate endlessly the events of 2008, continued criticism suggests that their decisions are still not well understood and that officials must do more to explain them.

Indeed, recent data have effectively silenced hints by some Federal Reserve officials that the Fed should begin exiting from its current third (and indefinite) round of quantitative easing (QE3).

Given the certainty of divisions among officials on the relative importance of inflation and unemployment, a successful Fed chairman must also be able to work well with people of diverse perspectives.

Fighting the Fed

The Fed Trap

Audit the Fed?

Blaming the Fed

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The Fed Under Fire

The Fed in Denial

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Don t Follow The Fed

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These decisions were controversial, and their advisability has been questioned as it should be in a democracy. In turn, Fed officials have sought to justify their actions, which is also the way a democracy should function.

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Why the Fed Buried Monetarism

The Fed Versus Price Stability

The Fed Sets Another Trap

The Fed was hardly alone.

The Fed vs. the Financiers

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The Chinese Economy and Fed Policy

Will Fed Tightening Choke Emerging Markets?

How the Fed Just Reduced Inequality

Why the Fed Will Go Faster

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Emerging Markets After the Fed Hikes Rates

Inflation, the Fed, and the Big Picture

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Why the Fed Should Postpone Rate Hikes

A central element of the theory is that the stock of bonds that the Fed has removed from private portfolios, not the flow of Fed purchases, will determine investors risk appetite. Unless investors thought the Fed was going to buy bonds forever, news about a reduction in Fed purchases should have had only a mild effect on their expectations of the eventual stock of bonds the Fed would hold.

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But now commercial banks are willing to hold their excess reserves at the Fed, because the Fed now pays interest on those deposits.

Finally, Fed officials should acknowledge that at least some of the critics' suggestions have merit. For example, eliminating commercial banks' right to select a majority of each Reserve Bank's board would be a useful step in the direction of greater openness and diversity.

Some senior Fed officials become angry when pressed about this reality. But the Fed s legitimacy and its ability to make sensible policy is not boosted by having major banks represented, directly or indirectly, on a board that chooses and oversees a key policymaker.