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The topic centres on an agreement between the US Federal Reserve System (the central bank federation in the US) and the US Treasury to peg the interest rate on government bonds in 1942. What the agreement demonstrated is that a central bank can always control yields on government bonds, which includes keeping them at zero (or even negative in the current case of Japan). What it demonstrates is that private bonds markets, no matter how much they might huff and puff about their own importance or at least the conservatives who are ‘fan boys’ of the bond markets), the government always rules because of its currency monopoly…. Bill Mitchell – billy blogWhen relations within government were sensible – the US-Fed Accord – Part 1Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: bond vigilantes, FED, Interest Rate, Kenneth D. Garbade, Mariner Eccles, Treasury-Fed Accord, US Treasury, yield curve
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The topic centres on an agreement between the US Federal Reserve System (the central bank federation in the US) and the US Treasury to peg the interest rate on government bonds in 1942. What the agreement demonstrated is that a central bank can always control yields on government bonds, which includes keeping them at zero (or even negative in the current case of Japan). What it demonstrates is that private bonds markets, no matter how much they might huff and puff about their own importance or at least the conservatives who are ‘fan boys’ of the bond markets), the government always rules because of its currency monopoly…. Bill Mitchell – billy blogWhen relations within government were sensible – the US-Fed Accord – Part 1Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important: bond vigilantes, FED, Interest Rate, Kenneth D. Garbade, Mariner Eccles, Treasury-Fed Accord, US Treasury, yield curve
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The topic centres on an agreement between the US Federal Reserve System (the central bank federation in the US) and the US Treasury to peg the interest rate on government bonds in 1942. What the agreement demonstrated is that a central bank can always control yields on government bonds, which includes keeping them at zero (or even negative in the current case of Japan). What it demonstrates is that private bonds markets, no matter how much they might huff and puff about their own importance or at least the conservatives who are ‘fan boys’ of the bond markets), the government always rules because of its currency monopoly….Bill Mitchell – billy blog
When relations within government were sensible – the US-Fed Accord – Part 1
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia