The Oxfam Poverty Report or Monetary Policy and Investment Opportunities

The Oxfam Poverty Report

Author: Kevin Watkins

The Oxfam Poverty Report identifies the structural forces which deny people their basic rights, using case studies from Africa, Latin America, and Asia. It outlines some of the wider policy and institutional reforms needed to create an enabling environment in which people can act as agents of change to reduce poverty.

Geography

Offers clear, readable, hard-hitting analysis of contemporary global society.

Geography

Offers clear, readable, hard-hitting analysis of contemporary global society.

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Monetary Policy and Investment Opportunities

Author: Laura S Nowak

This book combines the institutional approach to understanding monetary policy with the theories and principles involved in applying that knowledge to investing. A review of the origins of the Federal Reserve is followed by an historical progression of the Fed into the powerful arbiter of U.S. economic policy today. The actual conduct and effects of monetary policy are then explained with an eye toward developing the skills necessary to identify changes in policy that can be applied to the investment world. The effects of monetary policies on financial markets and on particular industries are then discussed followed by a description of the investment instruments that will be impacted by different policies. In conclusion, a chapter of suggestions for hedging against changes in monetary policy and another chapter describing the tools that can be used for this purpose are offered.

Table of Contents:

	Figures and Tables
	Preface
Pt. I	The Central Bank's Effect on the Financial System and the Economy	1
1	The Power and Structure of the Central Bank	3
2	Federal Reserve Open Market Operations and the Government Securities Market	27
3	The Effect of Federal Reserve Open Market Operations on Short-Term and Long-Term Interest Rates	41
4	The Structure of Interest Rates	63
Pt. II	Monetary Policy and Fixed Income, Equity, and Other Investments	85
5	The Effect of Monetary Policy on the Stock and Bond Markets	87
6	Short-Term Fixed Income Securities	109
7	Intermediate- and Long-Term Fixed Income Securities	123
8	The Effect of Monetary Policy on Particular Industries and Companies	147
9	Derivative and Hybrid Instruments	163
10	Hedges Against Monetary Policy	183
	Index	201