The Federal Reserve Board

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"The Federal Reserve is one of the two most important central banks in the world, along with the Bank of Japan. As a central bank, it is charged with steering the monetary policies of the U.S. economy. There is considerable disagreement about the effectiveness of the Federal Reserve in pursuing this mission, and there are also different theories offered as to how a central bank can be structured best to be effective.

A comparison of the Bank of Japan and the Federal Reserve in The Economist ("The rewards of independence: central banks: America v. Japan," 1992, 19-21) notes first that studies have shown that when central banks are independent of political influence, they tend to deliver lower rates of inflation. They accomplish this without simply costing jobs, for countries with independent central banks do not, on average, have higher.."

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