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In October 2008, as the U.S. economy plunged, the Federal Reserve began paying interest on banks' reserve balances. The resulting switch to a "floor system" of monetary control, in which changes in the interest rate on reserves, rather than reserve creation or destruction, became the Fed's chief tool for influencing economic activity, was to have far-reaching consequences--almost all of them regrettable.

Besides intensifying the downturn by causing banks to hoard reserves, the floor system all but destroyed the market for unsecured interbank loans that had been banks' ordinary "first resort" source of last-minute liquidity. By depriving the Fed's asset purchases of the ability to stimulate investment and spending, it also compelled the Fed to compensate by purchasing assets on an unprecedented scale. All of this resulted in a substantial increase in the Fed's role in allocating scarce credit. Finally, by severing the ordinary connection between the stance of monetary policy and the extent of the Fed's asset holdings, the floor system risks turning the Fed's balance sheet into a fiscal-policy playground.

Floored! offers a matchless account of our post-crisis monetary system's history and shortcomings.

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  • Title Floored!: How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession
  • Author George Selgin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 230
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cato Institute
  • Publication date 2018-10-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781948647083 / 1948647087
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.52 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.32 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Federal Reserve banks, United States - Economic conditions - 2009-
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.973
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