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Texts of Federal Open Market Committee Reports

fedspeakr

Texts of Federal Open Market Committee Reports

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"I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said." -- Alan Greenspan

This package provides texts of reports from the Federal Open Market Committee in UTF-8 format. Texts included in this package were compiled from the Federal Reserve System's website, and are ready for text analysis. Reports that are available include:

  • Policy statements (press releases) - Feb 1994 - Jul 2017
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This project is inspired by:

Romer, Christina, D., and David H. Romer. 2004. "Choosing the Federal Reserve Chair: Lessons from History ." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18(1): 129-162.

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