First, he encouraged a restrictive monetary policy by encouraging the Federal Reserve to keep Federal Interest Rates high. ... Out of these four changes, the Reagan Administration had the easiest time encouraging the Federal Reserve to keep rates high. ...

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Most of the countries involved were in the developing or transition worlds, an exception being the collapse of an important hedge fund in the United States in the second half of 1998 which directly threatened international financial markets and forced the Federal Reserve to intervene to prevent a global meltdown. ...

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