The Fed has one more policy setting session on tap this year in December.
In fact, the window placement policy setting in the control center sometimes doesn't seem to have any immediate effect at all.
Investors are also waiting for the Federal Reserve, which will begin a two-day policy setting meeting on Tuesday, with a statement to be released on Wednesday.
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Dangerous imbalances can build slowly in a financial system, in ways that may not be obvious to a group of economists whose main focus each month is whether the monetary-policy setting is too hot or cold to hit an inflation target.
Chief among these lessons were: the need for political will and engagement at the highest level of policy- and decision-makers, regular consultation with and participation of stakeholders in policy setting and planning, and joint responsibility and accountability of all partners for the reform implementation.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is reportedly chairing a meeting of the policy-setting Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, which will announce a package later in the day.
The ECBs policy-setting council will hold a rare Sunday conference call to talk its own in-house problems, Reuters reported on Saturday.
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Some members of the Fed's policy-setting committee want it to publish additional economic targets, such as an unemployment rate, which would guide interest rates.
The Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's policy-setting panel, has reiterated plans to keep rates at exceptionally low levels at least through late 2014.
After the first policy-setting meeting under Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, the central bank said it will more than double its holdings of Japanese government bonds by 2014.
Investors will be looking ahead to Wednesday, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will testify to Congress and the Fed will release the minutes of its most recent policy-setting meeting.
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, new residential construction, and the FOMC begins its two-day monetary policy-setting meeting.
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The central bank said "labor market conditions have deteriorated, and the available data indicate that consumer spending, business investment and industrial production have declined" since its policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee last met.
Andrew Sullivan, principal sales trader at Piper Jaffray, said investors were cautious ahead of key events this week, including central bank policy-setting board meetings in the U.S. and Japan, as well as the outcome of the French election.
The Federal Open Market Committee will end a two-day policy-setting meeting later Wednesday that is likely to show central bank officials are more upbeat about the economy but not enough to tighten loose-borrowing costs that have encouraged risk-taking, economists say.
Mr. Bernanke said to Congress on Wednesday that an early pullback on bond buying could stall the recovery but that the Fed could "take a step down" from the purchases within the time frame of the next few policy-setting meetings if economic data support that path.
The Conservatives would create a Financial Regulation Division within the Bank of England and a Financial Policy Committee similar to the rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee, which would monitor systemic risks and have the power to break up banks.
We also need to bar federal lobbyists from setting policy over their former industries.
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If inflation one year undershoots its target, that is ignored in setting policy the next year.
The Fed's twin goals in setting policy are preventing too much inflation and preventing too much unemployment.
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The involvement of a state in this issue, while certainly legal, also raised practical concerns of a single state, even if it is the state where many investment banks are headquartered, setting policy that governs national and international businesses.
The idea that central banks need to take account of asset prices when setting monetary policy is hardly new.
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However, for the previous three months, three members of the Bank's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee have voted to increase rates.
"My point is not that we want federal bureaucrats on the banks of the Potomac setting education policy, " Williams said.
But there is already a strong case for the Fed to take account of asset prices in setting monetary policy (see article).
In a speech last year, Alan Greenspan, the Fed's chairman, argued that asset prices have an important role to play in setting monetary policy.
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The Item Club says that the change should be used by the Treasury to "review the remit" that it gives the Bank's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee.
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