{
  "id": 19148023,
  "title": "Has U.S. Monetary Policy Really Improved? A 150‑Year Perspective",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/has-u-s-monetary-policy-really-improved-a-150-year-perspective",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-09T12:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Liberty Street Economics",
    "slug": "liberty-street-economics",
    "url": "https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/11/has-u-s-monetary-policy-really-improved-a-150-year-perspective/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Has U.S. monetary policy actually improved over time? Or was the apparent success of the modern Federal Reserve mostly the result of more favorable economic conditions and better luck? In this post, we summarize our paper , * which develops a framework for comparing monetary policy across different economic environments. Our approach asks how close policy came to the best response given the…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}