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tment social trade fiscal monetary policy mix fiscal policy budget policy debt internal deficit surplus finance ministry fiscal gap fiscal transparency fiscal union revenue spending deficit redistribution tax monetary policy bank reserves requirements discount window gold reserves interest rate monetary authority central bank currency board monetary base monetary currency union money supply trade policy balance of trade free trade gains from trade non tariff barrier protectionism tariff trade bloc trade creation trade diversion trade commerce ministry revenue spending non tax revenue tax revenue discretionary spending mandatory spending optimum balanced budget amendment economic growth fiscal illusion price stability wagner s law reform fiscal adjustment monetary reform economics portal politics portal v t e the federal reserve system commonly known as the fed has faced various criticisms since its establishment in 1913 critics have questioned its effectiveness in managing inflation regulating the banking system and stabilizing the economy notable critics include nobel laureate economist milton friedman and his fellow monetarist anna schwartz who argued that the fed s policies exacerbated the great depression libertarian figures such as ron paul and rand paul have called for greater transparency and accountability with ron paul advocating for the fed s abolition and a return to a gold standard 1 critics have also raised concerns about the fed s role in fractional reserve banking its contribution to economic cycles and its transparency expansionary policies such as lowering interest rates and increasing the money supply have been blamed for creating asset bubbles inflation and other economic distortions the fed has been accused of causing economic downturns including the 2008 financial crisis 2 and of being influenced by private interests its response to that crisis particularly the bailing out of large financial institutions has drawn criticism for creating moral hazard and disproportionately benefiting wall street at the expense of ordinary citizens despite these criticisms the federal reserve remains a central institution in the united states financial system with ongoing debates about its role policies and the need for reform creation edit main article history of the federal reserve system an early version of the federal reserve act was drafted in 1910 on jekyll island georgia by republican senator nelson aldrich chairman of the national monetary commission and several wall street bankers the final version with provisions intended to improve public oversight and weaken the influence of the new york banking establishment was drafted by democratic congressman carter glass of virginia 3 the structure of the fed was a compromise between the desire of the bankers for a central bank under their control and the desire of president woodrow wilson to create a decentralized structure under public control 4 the federal reserve act was approved by congress and signed by president wilson in december 1913 4 economist hans sennholz called the fed s creation the most tragic blunder ever committed by congress the day it was passed old america died and a new era began a new institution was born that was to cause or greatly contribute to the unprecedented economic instability in the decades to come 5 inflation policy edit in the case against the fed murray rothbard argued in 1994 that although a supposed core function of the federal reserve is to maintain a low level of inflation its policies like those of other central banks have actually aggravated inflation this occurs when the fed creates too much fiat money backed by nothing he called the fed policy of money creation legalized counterfeiting and favored a return to the gold standard 6 he wrote i t is undeniable that ever since the fed was visited upon us in 1914 our inflations have been more intense and our depressions far deeper than ever before there is only one way to eliminate chronic inflation as well as the booms and busts brought by that system of inflationary credit and that is to eliminate the counterfeiting that constitutes and creates that inflation and the only way to do that is to abolish legalized counterfeiting that is to abolish the federal reserve system and return to the gold standard to a monetary system where a market produced metal such as gold serves as the standard money and not paper tickets printed by the federal reserve 7 the federal reserve has been criticized as not meeting its goals of greater stability and low inflation 8 this has led to a number of proposed changes including advocacy of different policy rules 9 or dramatic restructuring of the system itself 10 milton friedman concluded that governments do have a role in the monetary system 11 he was critical of the federal reserve due to its poor performance and felt it should be abolished 12 13 friedman believed that the federal reserve system should ultimately be replaced with a computer program 10 he favored a system that would automatically buy and sell securities in response to changes in the money supply 14 this proposal has become known as friedman s k percent rule 15 others have proposed ngdp targeting as an alternative rule to guide and improve central bank policy 16 17 prominent supporters include scott sumner 18 david beckworth 19 and tyler cowen 20 congress edit several members of congress have criticized the fed senator robert owen whose name was on the glass owen federal reserve act believed that the fed was not performing as promised he said the federal reserve board was created to control regulate and stabilize credit in the interest of all people the federal reserve board is the most gigantic financial power in all the world instead of using this great power as the federal reserve act intended that it should the board delegated this power to the banks 21 22 representative louis t mcfadden chairman of the house committee on banking and currency from 1920 to 1931 accused the federal reserve of deliberately causing the great depression in several speeches made shortly after he lost the chairmanship of the committee mcfadden claimed that the federal reserve was run by wall street banks and their affiliated european banking houses in one 1932 house speech that has been criticized as bluster 23 he stated mr chairman we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known i refer to the federal reserve board and the federal reserve banks this evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the united states through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it 24 many members of congress who have been involved in the house and senate banking and currency committees have been open critics of the federal reserve including chairmen wright patman 25 henry reuss 26 and henry b gonzalez representative ron paul chairman of the monetary policy subcommittee in 2011 is known as a staunch opponent of the federal reserve system 27 he routinely introduced bills to abolish the federal reserve system 28 three of which gained approval in the house but lost in the senate 29 congressman paul also introduced h r 459 federal reserve transparency act of 2011 30 31 this act required an audit of the federal reserve board and the twelve regional banks with particular attention to the valuation of its securities his son senator rand paul has introduced similar legislation in subsequent sessions of congress 32 great depression 1929 edit total money supply contracted 10 28 in october 1929 and continued to contract for the next few years during herbert hoover s presidency inflation deflation m2 money supply increases year year money supply decreased significantly between black tuesday and the bank holiday in march 1933 when there were massive bank runs across the united states main article causes of the great depression crowd gathering on wall street after the 1929 crash milton friedman and anna schwartz stated that the fed pursued an erroneously restrictive monetary policy exacerbating the great depression after the stock market crash in 1929 the fed continued its contraction decrease of the money supply and refused to save banks that were struggling with bank runs this mistake critics charge allowed what might have been a relatively mild recession to explode into catastrophe friedman and schwartz believed that the depression was a tragic testimonial to the importance of monetary forces 33 before the establishment of the federal reserve the banking system had dealt with periodic crises such as in the panic of 1907 by suspending the convertibility of deposits into currency in 1907 the system nearly collapsed and there was an extraordinary intervention by an ad hoc coalition assembled by j p morgan in the years 1910 1913 the bankers demanded a central bank to address this structural weakness friedman suggested that a similar intervention should have been followed during the banking panic at the end of 1930 this might have stopped the vicious circle of forced liquidation of assets at depressed prices just as suspension of convertibility in 1893 and 1907 had quickly ended the liquidity crises at the time 34 essentially in the monetarist view the great depression was caused by the fall of the money supply friedman and schwartz note that f rom the cyclical peak in august 1929 to a cyclical trough in march 1933 the stock of money fell by over a third 35 the result was what friedman calls the great contraction a period of falling income prices and employment caused by the choking effects of a restricted money supply the mechanism suggested by friedman and schwartz was that people wanted to hold more money than the federal reserve was supplying people thus hoarded money by consuming less this in turn caused a contraction in employment and production since prices were not flexible enough to immediately fall friedman and schwartz argued the federal reserve allowed the money supply to plummet because of ineptitude and poor leadership 36 many have since agreed with this theory including ben bernanke chairman of the federal reserve from 2006 until 2014 who in a speech honoring friedman and schwartz said let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the federal reserve i would like to say to milton and anna regarding the great depression you re right we did it we re very sorry but thanks to you we won t do it again 37 38 friedman has said that ideally he would prefer to abolish the federal reserve and replace it with a computer 39 he preferred a system that would increase the money supply at some fixed rate and he thought that leaving monetary and banking arrangements to the market would have produced a more satisfactory outcome than was actually achieved through government involvement 40 in contrast to friedman s argument that the fed did too little to ease after the crisis murray rothbard argued that the crisis was caused by the fed being too loose in the 1920s in the book america s great depression 2008 financial crisis edit main article 2008 financial crisis see also inverted yield curve 30 year mortgage average 30 year treasury bond 10 year treasury bond 2 year treasury bond 3 month treasury bond effective federal funds rate cpi inflation year year recessions recessions cause contractions in manufacturing employment from a lack of demand some economists such as john b taylor 41 have asserted that the fed was responsible at least partially for the united states housing bubble which occurred prior to the 2007 recession they claim that the fed kept interest rates too low following the 2001 recession 42 the housing bubble then led to the credit crunch other economists associated with the austrian school of economics including former u s congressman ron paul and historian tom woods have argued that the artificially low interest rates allowed for speculative investments and unsustainable levels of debt particularly in housing 43 44 45 in tom woods book meltdown woods contends that federal reserve manipulation of the money supply and credit markets distorted normal price signals leading to widespread malinvestment resulting in an inevitable correction 45 then chairman alan greenspan disputes this interpretation he points out that the fed s control over the long term interest rates to which critics refer is only indirect the fed did raise the short term interest rate over which it has control i e the federal funds rate but the long term interest rate which usually follows the former did not increase 46 47 paul and woods also criticized fannie mae s and freddie mac s role in the crisis asserting that the entities engaged in excessive risk taking by expanding homeownership beyond sustainable levels 48 49 in doing this the government intervention created moral hazard by assuring large financial institutions that they would receive government support in times of crisis which paul and woods believe encouraged riskier behavior 45 50 the federal reserve s role as a supervisor and regulator has been criticized as being ineffective former u s senator chris dodd then chairman of the united states senate committee on banking housing and urban affairs remarked about the fed s role in the 2007 2008 economic crisis we saw over the last number of years when they took on consumer protection responsibilities and the regulation of bank holding companies it was an abysmal failure covid 19 pandemic edit during covid 19 pandemic the federal reserve s policies such as rapidly growing the m2 increasing its bank reserves quantitative easing qe and keeping interest rates near zero until march 2022 had been criticised by economists especially monetarists as greatly contributing to the inflation spike which peaked at 9 1 a record high in over 40 years 51 52 53 54 the historically high jump in m2 was a big factor in causing inflation during the presidency of joe biden money creation edit main article austrian business cycle theory the federal reserve does not actually control the money supply directly and has delegated this authority to banks banks are the primary source of money creation through loans if a bank has a reserve requirement of 10 and they have 10 million dollars in bank deposits they can create 100 million dollars to loan out to borrowers it is essentially going on margin 10 1 without having to pay interest on the margin because it is in effect money that they created themselves according to this critique this is the primary cause of credit cycles or business cycles because money supply creation is not under any single entity s control and is decentralized among many banks that are trying to maximize profits individually citation needed the federal reserve indirectly controls this process by manipulating the federal funds rate that sets the tone for interest rates on new debt throughout the economy and intentionally puts the economy into a recession...