The Fed has unlimited power to create bank reserves and control interest rates, which affect the valuation of every asset.
They control interest rates and money supply around the world.
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They included removing trade barriers, encouraging export growth, privatizing state-owned industries, creating a central bank able to control interest and exchange rates without government interference, cutting wages sharply and privatizing the social security system.
It would be ironic indeed if an American administration substantially staffed by individuals associated with various arms control interest groups were to endorse a proposal at odds with the newly declared objective of curbing conventional arms proliferation.
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Because they cannot devalue within the single currency and further do not control local interest rates.
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For the government, this is a happy consequence of the handover of control over interest rates.
Hence Mr Brown's decision in May 1997 to hand control of interest rates to the Bank of England.
The government has handed control of interest rates to the Bank of England and climate-change targets to a committee of experts.
He has no control over interest rates, international finance or commodity prices.
For this sort of austerity requires the ability to devalue the currency and also to be able to control local interest rates.
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He has handed control of interest rates to the Bank of England.
But what the Fed is trying to do is say, what's the core rate of inflation that we can actually control with interest rates?
Financial intervention broadly: government control of interest rates and money supply, and long-term currency debasement are somehow non-issues even as federal regulation such as Dodd-Frank sweeps across the private financial sector.
This would be all the more galling for Mr George since his job has recently become a lot more interesting, following the government's decision to hand the Bank control of interest rates.
And on the other, the exchange rate has been one of the prime reasons why British inflation has stayed so low since the committee was given control of interest rates in 1997.
The chancellor is wary of cutting loose: in Treasury eyes, one of the advantages of the Bank's control of interest rates (handed over by Mr Brown in 1997) is the discipline it exerts on fiscal policy.
This is, of course, self-serving stuff, intended to show that New Labour folk, unlike the Tories, are careful stewards of the economy and in particular, what a good idea it was to give the Bank of England control over interest rates.
The creation of the Financial Policy Committee, which has its first meeting on Thursday, represents arguably the most important change to the way the British economy is managed since the Bank of England was given control of interest rates in 1997.
Because Europe's governments have signed away national control of interest rates, fiscal policy is the only tool to hand if the single monetary policy leaves their economies growing more slowly than they might, or faster than they can sustain without pressure on wages and property prices.
Get government spending and deficits back under control and get interest rates back to the historical norm of about 5% as quickly as possible.
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Because it does not control its own interest rates or money printing (monetary policy), the Greek government is at the mercy of the European Central Bank.
Within a few iterations, the group comes to a consensus: Either enough bots deem it a good site to point out to mission control, or interest peters out.
States do not have to acquire majority interest (control of 50% or more of the voting stock) or even insider ownership (control of 5% or more of the voting stock) to wield an influential hand in furthering their interest.
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Some characteristics are beyond their control: When the interest rates tick downward, loan applications flood through the door.
The Fed really had little power to control either bank reserves or interest rates.
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After three months in administration, only Singh had registered an interest in obtaining control.
Adults learn to control their faces, feigning interest in order to be polite.
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So they're trying to focus on that piece of inflation that they can control by raising or lowering interest rates.
While some of its neighbours have been raising interest rates to control inflation and keep pace with the Fed, Indonesia is in easing mode, aiming to boost economic growth.
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American sports and entertainment company AEG, the owners of the O2 Arena, is just one of more than 100 parties to have expressed an interest in assuming control of the venue.
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