美联储内幕：格林斯潘的舞台The Fed:The Inside Story How World's Most Powerful Financial Institution

作者： Martin Mayer 著

出 版 社： 广东顶峰文化传播有限公司

出版时间： 2005-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 350印刷时间： 2002/06/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780452283411包装： 平装内容简介

To most investors, the Fed is one person Chairman Alan Greenspan whose job is to set interest rates. In this entertaining and enlightening account, popular financial journalist Mayer (The Bankers; The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery) traces the evolution of the Federal Reserve from a sleepy regulatory agency to the most powerful economic institution in the world. Created in 1913, the Fed was designed to regulate banks in an era when they, and not the government, were assumed to control the economy; interest-rate setting was only a minor part of the agency's job. With the rise of a global economy in which individual banks no longer wield their former influence, the Fed has completely reinvented itself. Mayer, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, tells of turf battles with the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, in addition to conflicts with bankers and foreign institutions. Although his tale involves extensive discussion of topics like check clearing, reserve assets and regulatory accounting, and most of the protagonists are staid, Mayer livens things up with irreverent character sketches, flamboyant prose (considering the subject matter) and canny storytelling. At the same time, he presents the historical and economic details accurately. (June Forecast: Written with the verve of a Vanity Fair magazine article, and supported by a 20-city radio satellite tour, this very topical book should attract fans of Mayer's previous books, in addition to investors who wish to make sense of the Fed's role in the market.

目录

PART ONE: MAGIC TRICKS

Chapter 1: The Magan on the World Stage

Chapter 2: The MagiNan at Home

PART TWO：CENTRAL BANKS

Chapter 3: H/hat Is a Central Bank?

Chapter 4: The Question of Independence

PART THREE: AVOIDING CATASTROPHE

Chapter 5: The System and Its Risks

Chapter 6: The Amen'can Lender of Last Resort

PART FOUR: MAKING MONEY

Chapter 8: Monetary Policy in the Maelstrom

Chapter 9: Disaster Time

Chapter 10: Green~Oan and the Markets

Chapter 11: Internationally

PART FIVE: THE DAY JOBS

Chapter 12: The Payments Franchise

Chapter 13: Supervisions

Chapter 14: The Fed and the Poor

PART SIX: WHATS NEXT?

Chapter 15：The Fed in Our Future

Notes

Index