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2007, No. 10
Posted 2007-05-01

The Federal Funds and Long-Term Rates

by Daniel L. Thornton

It is widely accepted that the absence of a change in long-term yields alongside a large change
in the federal funds rate marks a break in the historical relationship between these rates. The author argues, however, that this break may have occurred in the early 1990s.