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The Centralverse

Central banking, monetary policy, and the world that orbits them — a running collection of data, threads, and reference material.

my data

  • Reserve Bank Board of Directors Biographical Database - overview | charts | by year | by position
  • FOMC Biographical Database - data
  • FOMC Meetings and Attendance - data
  • Reserve Bank Presidents’ Mandatory Retirement Age - thread
  • Fed History Materials, Books full list - list
  • Early Hearings Related to the Fed - folder
  • Major Hearings Related to the Fed - list
  • Fed Board Division Directors - data
  • Changes to the Fed District Boundaries - narrative and maps | Beckworth blogpost & live discussion
  • Thirteen Fed Robberies - thread, news stories
  • Stock Trading Scandal - detailed timeline, an essay I wrote on the topic
  • Pay Comparison NY Fed and NY FHLB presidents - data
  • FOMC Geography - data, governor thread
  • NYT Fed Mentions (1966-1973) - data
  • Historical Path to Chair - charts
  • Governor Vardaman Scandal - thread
  • Fed Board Auditors - thread and data
  • Timing of FOMC Meeting Announcements - thread
  • Three examples of Board intervening in Fed Presidency appointments - notes
  • Different Central Banks Employee Count against size economy or assets managed - data
  • How often does the Chair mention the Minutes during their press conference - data
  • Come With Me to the FOMC speeches (six total) - list
  • The Culpeper Switch Facility - notes
  • Diversity and the Fed, in general - notes
  • Evolution of the Diversity in the Federal Reserve Act - notes
  • Family relations at the FOMC (I only found two) - list
  • Fed employees taking big jobs at foreign central banks - list
  • Kansas City Fed and the Greenlease Kidnapping - notes
  • Emergency lending facilities authorized under 13(3) - data
  • Fed programs from GFC & Covid - data
  • History of Fed Beat Reports - 1% complete, placeholder
  • History of the FOMC blackout period - notes
  • Fed Chair work calendars - links
  • Historical changes to the Federal Funds Rate - data
  • Fed Board General Counsels, and all Fed System General Counsels that joined FOMC - data
  • Fed in pop culture - list
  • Salaries of the members of the FOMC - data
  • FOMC Voting Pods (both original 1935 + 1942) - list
  • FOMC Dissents - data
  • Gender Diversity at the Fed - notes
  • Major Fed Historians (incomplete) - list
  • Mormons at the FOMC - notes
  • National Monetary Commission Summary - list
  • List of Oral Histories on the Fed (seven total) - list
  • Federal Reserve Bank First Vice Presidents (1913 - 2020) - list
  • Summary of Economic Projections (SEP), Dot Plot history (2012 - 2020) - data
  • Trump tweets about the Fed (2011 - 2020) - data
  • Table of who the Reserve Bank Directors are - table
  • Colorful Books (Beige Book, Tiel Book, Blue, Green, Red) - table
  • Current FOMC terms - tables
  • Evolution, slow birth, of the FOMC 1913 to 1942 - timeline
  • FOMC calendar - notes
  • Major Amendments to the Federal Reserve Act (FRA) - list
  • Fed Scandals - list
  • FOMC females - data
  • FOMC first names - data
  • FOMC nonwhites - data
  • Nominated but not confirmed Fed Board - list
  • Chair detailed biographical information - notes
  • People who were both Reserve Bank Presidents and Board Governors - list
  • How the Chair is selected - deck
  • How Fed Governors are selected - deck
  • How the Reserve Bank Presidents are selected - deck
  • This Day in the Centralverse - timeline
  • Time to replace suddenly departing Reserve Bank Presidents - data
  • Who owns the Fed - notes and data
  • Board of Governors Press Releases 1996 - 2018 - data
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York press releases 1995 - 2018 - data

other data

  • FRASER, Fed history, qualitative - archive
  • FRED, data - archive
  • Congressional Record (use index 1873 to present) - site
  • Congressional Record (1998 to present) - site
  • The American Presidency Project - site
  • Center for Inflation Research - site
  • Yale Program on Financial Stability Reference Library - site
  • Social Sciences Research Network - site
  • Fed Board Annual Reports - all
  • New York Times archive 1851 to 2002 - archive
  • NBER recession tracker - list
  • Family Search Census records - site
  • FedWatch from CME, FOMC rate future - site
  • Global Financial Crisis Timeline, FRASER - timeline
  • FOMC current calendar and materials - site
  • FOMC historical materials - site
  • FOMC voter rotation - site
  • Newspapers .com archive - site
  • Senate Banking hearings 1955 to present - site
  • US Code, search for all laws historical - site
  • Nominations before Senate 1981 to present - site
  • Code of Federal Regulations - site
  • Fed Board Meeting Minutes 1914 to 1973 - site
  • Archives on FRASER - site
  • Proquest, for searching congressional hearings - site

my podcasts

  • The Bankster Podcast - Season 3: seven part history of the lender of last resort, Season 4: audiobook of Lombard Street, the central banker’s bible by Walter Bagehot
  • The Reserve Podcast - Fed current events interview show with dozens of guests and often cohosted with Steven Kelly

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