Breaking Down the Federal Reserve's Dual Mandate

The Fed has been tasked with a dual mandate by Congress to achieve low inflation and high employment. Learn more about the ...
Marketplace

How often does the Fed actually achieve its dual mandate — price stability and maximum employment?

It’s been a roller coaster of a week for the U.S. stock market, and markets around the world. And it’s only Wednesday. Before Monday’s big sell-off, anxiety was already building, particularly among ...
AOL

The Fed doesn’t actually have a ‘dual’ mandate—there’s a third part it rarely mentions, and economists want it to stay that way

If you asked the majority of Americans what the mandate of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) was, few would know and even less would care. Ask economists, Wall Street analysts, and even the Fed ...
New York Sun

Guess Who’s Worrying About the Fed’s Dual Mandate

A new critic of the Federal Reserve’s dual mandate is emerging, and wouldn’t you know if it isn’t the Fed chairman himself, Jerome Powell. The dual mandate is Fed shorthand for the hard-to-achieve — ...
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The Fed's dual mandate is under new pressure in D.C.

The long-held dual mandate of the Federal Reserve to maintain stable prices and maximize employment is under increasing scrutiny in the nation's capital as GOP pressure on the central bank intensifies ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

How keeping down borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans is built into the Fed’s ‘dual mandate’

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For most of us, the main impact tends to be how much we have to pay to borrow to buy a ...