A View of the Federal Open Market Committee
This is probably too much from one blog in a single day (a single hour even!) but this account of the substantive and not so substantive activities at a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee is fascinating.
From Economix in today’s New York Times
Economix: Come With Me to the F.O.M.C.: A Sneak Peak Into Fed LifeAn economist writes about what it was like to be a member of the Federal Open Market Committee and set monetary policy.

I teach principles of economics courses and a course in the economics of healthcare at Southern Oregon University.
