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What is Monetary Policy: How the Federal Funds Rate Works and Why It Moves
The FOMC meets eight times a year and sets a target range for overnight lending between banks. How that range works, why it moves, and where the effects land.

The FOMC meets eight times a year and sets a target range for overnight lending between banks. How that range works, why it moves, and where the effects land.

Politics decides who holds power and what gets debated. Policy is the fine print that actually changes how the government acts.

The word covers more than elections. It is the whole business of deciding together who gets what, and how.