Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Sandra Pianalto explains why price stability is essential for maximum employment and how the adoption of a numerical target for inflation may improve the central bank’s ability to achieve both objectives. Find the essay, along with Frequently Asked...

In a speech at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President and CEO Sandra Pianalto discussed why the economic outlook is so important to the monetary policymaking process and what goes into economic forecasting. She also shared her economic outlook.

The Federal Reserve is an adapting, evolving, and learning organization. In the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's 2012 Annual Report, we take a close look at how it has changed since its creation 100 years ago. Our essay describes some of the seminal episodes that have influenced the Federal...

Developing issues in the labor market are clouding the outlook for both the unemployment rate and the natural rate of unemployment over the next few years. Both rates at their current levels clearly argue for providing an accommodative monetary policy, as long as inflation remains consistent...

This Commentary contains an insider’s view of the decisionmaking process followed by the monetary policymakers of the FOMC. In particular, Sandra Pianalto, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and a member of the FOMC, describes her take on the objectives, principles, and...

Sandra Pianalto, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, discusses the way the Federal Reserve System ensures that different regions of the country are represented in making monetary policy, describes the way our economy is changing, and suggests some ways...

The economy has been expanding for the past few years, but concerns are growing over the pressures placed on it by fiscal deficits, current account imbalances, and energy shocks. Sandra Pianalto, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, explains why she thinks the Federal...

An examination of the nature of economic recovery, with an analysis of the performance of past employment expansions in the Fourth Federal Reserve District, and discussion of the outlook for autos, steel, and capital goods.

Sandra Pianalto is the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. This Commentary contains the text of her remarks to the Forecaster’s Club of New York on April 22, 2004.

Since early 1994, the FOMC has taken many steps toward increasing the amount of information it conveys to the public about its actions. Sandra Pianalto, a Federal Reserve Bank president and FOMC participant, outlines the evolution of increasing transparency in FOMC communications and suggests a...