This long-time policy gave senators firm control over local federal jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

The Federal Open Market Committee meets about every six weeks or so and they decide on monetary policy.

联邦公开市场委员会,没六周左右开会一次,并且制定货币政策。

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The discount rate was a policy variable set by the Fed and it was typically fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate.

贴现率是一个联邦可改变的政策,并且它比联邦资金利率通常,低五十个基本点。

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This is a lot of money,". In announcing their decision, Federal Reserve policy makers noted significant challenges facing the economy, including rising unemployment and declining consumer spending.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The Federal Open Market Committee makes monetary policy so it's decentralized and long terms.

联邦公开市场监察小组,制定货币政策,所以它是分权并且长期的。

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They are steps that are working." Bernanke says the Federal Reserve and other economic policy makers have been challenged by unprecedented events in the past few years, but his objective has not changed.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

So the interest rate the policy tool in the United the policy interest rate or key rate in the United States is called the Federal Funds Rate.

所以，利率美国的政策工具,美国的政策利率或是主要利率,叫做联邦资金利率。

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And who should lead that effort? PEW Vice President for Policy Analysis and the report's co-author, Stephen Seidel,says the federal government should lead, as the nation's largest landowner and the guardian of its natural resources, national parks and highways, bridges and dams.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14