Federal Reserve’s Publication

Describe the Federal Reserve’s assessment of the current economic activity and financial markets.
The U.S macro economy experiencing a notable extended period of economic expansion led to people believing that the U.S’ economy had become less volatile and prone to recession. Our economy’s growth slowed significantly and was threatened to enter the first recession of the millennium in mid-2000. According to the Federal Reserve the situation of our economy can be viewed from two points of view. The first one suggests that the slowdown in our economy is temporary, short-lived, and reversible meaning its recovery can be “V-shaped.” The second one suggests that the recession will last longer, a more drawn out slowdown, and followed by a weaker and more sluggish recovery also called “U shaped” recovery. This later view is associated with asset price deflation as well as burdensome debt. The current economic activity appears to be moving on the right direction and reversing itself into a near-term recovery. Also another aspect of it is the signs of potential risk of longer-term casual factors at work. The suggestion based on the fragility of the economy is that policymakers must be prepared to react and further preventive steps should be considered. Explain the Federal Reserve’s current view about inflation.
There are two types of inflation that are closely tied to each other. Monetary inflation is an increase in the money supply. Price inflation is a sustained increase in the general level of prices, which is equivalent to a decline in the value or purchasing power of money. If the supply of money and credit increases too rapidly over many months (monetary inflation); the result will usually be price inflation. Price inflation does not always increase in direct proportion to monetary inflation; it is also affected by the velocity