Chapter 26 Websites

The Federal Reserve System: Purposes and Functions (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C., 1994), available on the Internet at www.bog.frb.fed.us/pf/pf.htm, provides a useful description of the operations of the Fed. Also see the websites for Chapter 25 for a more detailed list of sites on monetary policy.

If you want to see which Federal Reserve Bank region you live in see www.bog.frb.fed.us/otherfrb.htm. Why are the eastern regions so small?

There is usually a website devoted to the thinking of the Fed Chairman. You can find it through most search engines such as yahoo.com. Biographies of the members of the Board of Governors can be found at www.bog.frb.fed.us/BIOS. Particularly interesting are the transcripts and minutes of Fed meetings, www.bog.frb.fed.us/fomc.