Besides the Fed's primary responsibility for setting U.S.monetary policy, it currently oversees about 6,000 large and small banks.

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He also has national policy responsibility for road death and collision investigation.

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One answer could be to take fiscal policy out of the hands of elected leaders, just as responsibility for monetary policy has been handed to independent central bankers.

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And she thinks that the Conservative policy of devolving budgetary responsibility to individual schools could prove a model for building strong institutions at the estate level.

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