Monetary policy describes the ways in which the central banks change the money supply in order to accomplish certain economic objectives. In the U.S. this is done by the Federal Reserve.

ablokhin / Getty Images Monetary policy and fiscal policy refer to the two most widely recognized tools used to influence a nation's economic activity. Monetary policy is primarily concerned with ...

In the book, he and co-author Anna Schwartz championed monetarism and argued that the disastrous Great Depression of the 1930s came about as a result of poorly conjured monetary policy by the ...

The Federal Reserve's latest Monetary Policy Report describes the U.S. economy as being in a solid position amid a monetary policy stance that will be driven by incoming economic data. The report, ...