Current Issue: Volume 28, Issue 1
The Legitimacy of the Federal Reserve
Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance
In the past several years, the Federal Reserve—America’s central bank—has considered expanding its authority into areas not typically within a central bank’s domain, such as climate change, inequality, and diversity. For some of this time, the Federal Reserve has struggled to control inflation. The Fed’s simultaneous expansion into new areas…
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