A Century of Monetary Policy at the Fed

1. Introducing the Book PART I: THE BROAD SWEEP OF FEDERAL RESERVE HISTORY 2. Growing Pains: Being Born after Panic and Experiencing Childhood in the Great Depression 3. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Splitting from the Treasury in Adolescence and Maturing More 4. Suffering Mid-Life Crises: Confronting Severe Inflation and Financial Meltdown in Adulthood 5. Understanding the Basics from a Contemporary Perspective PART II: MONETARY POLICY IN BERNANKE'S ERA 6. Saying Oops: Assuming the Chairmanship 7. Imagining Financial Armageddon, Making Emergency Loans in the Crisis, and Pursuing QE1 8. Cruising on QE2, Twisting Again, and Designing Even More Preemptively 9. Reaching for QE3 and Then Postponing Tapering PART III: RELATED DEVELOPMENTS IN BERNANKE'S ERA 10. Taxing and Spending: Taking a Closer Look at Fiscal Policymaking and Communication 10. Appendix: Understanding from the Ground Up How Monetary and Fiscal Policies Interact 11. Strengthening Financial Regulations 12. Prosecuting the Guilty, Revealing Crisis Lending, and Endangering Fed Independence 13. Experiencing Deflation or Disinflation around the World 14. Concluding the Book