(Watkins, 2011) Rising interest rates are a possibility, because the Federal Open Market Committee was focused on: purchasing Treasury securities, commercial paper and providing ample amounts of liquidity to the financial system. ... This is due to the fact that the federal government and states have been aggressively cutting spending to deal with rising deficits. ... The Federal Reserve needs to raise lending standards at many large banks. ...

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Their tactics were effective in eventually influencing the federal government to change. ... These articles were used to get to the federal government. ... Here, the national government was changed by a federal official with ease. This called for a Federal Reserve Act in 1913, which created a Federal Reserve Board, which oversaw 12 regional district reserve banks, each with a central bank, and could issue paper money. ... They had strong influences on the federal and national government to change. ...

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A look at the budget will show what the federal government is doing about these important issues. ... The federal government has provided $1.3 billion for Aboriginal healthcare over the next five years, as well as $600 million that will go to improving water treatment and waste disposal on the reserves. ... The federal government has recently created the Millennium Scholarship Foundation to help give young adults greater access to education at CEGEP and university levels. ...

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The aim of these taxes was to shut down the federal bank" (Lockard, 131). ... cially at the federal government. ... However, the federal government is not immune to all the taxes. ... The federal government cannot discriminate how it passes on federal funds to the states. ... Also, we now have a central bank, the Federal Reserve, which has replaced gold as the regulator of the value of our money. ...

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While the answer of Ownership is easily answered by stipulating the rights of the Federal Government, it is also made murky by the acknowledgment of those rights. How do we define the Federal government? ... Furthermore, our money that is supposedly owned by the government is actually backed by private enterprise as the Federal Reserve is privately owned, and not a subsidiary of the United States. ...

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Fiscal policies are derived by the legislative and executive branches and are only in regards to government spending whereas monetary policies are set by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fiscal Policy). ...

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