Current excess reserves could create a massive increase in the money supply if banks significantly increase their lending or investing.

Greater transparency is a means to better synchronize the public with policymakers and minimize the risks of undesirable economic outcomes.

Policymakers should not think of price stability and economic stability as competing objectives but as complements - the best way to achieve the latter is to be firmly committed to achieving the former.

The FOMC’s two-pronged approach involves a potential conflict: forward guidance assumes a high degree of substitutability across the maturity structure, while quantitative easing assumes a low degree.

On balance, the figure suggests that structural unemployment during economic downturns has increased since 1991.

Permanent increases in the monetary base foreshadow eventual increases in inflation that can increase, rather than reduce, unemployment.

It's hard to make a firm prediction as to when the Fed will raise interest rates.

While bank lending contracts during the typical recession, liquidity in bond markets may not.

The recent declines in tightening of lending standards suggest that business lending may be poised for a rebound.

Libor-OIS remains a barometer of fears of bank insolvency.