Inside the Fed Monetary Policy and Its Management, Martin Through Greenspan to Bernanke

Stephen H. Axilrod worked from 1952 to 1986 at the Board of Governors of the Federal ReserveSystem in Washington, D.C., rising to Staff Director for Monetary and Financial Policy and StaffDirector and Secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed's main monetary policy arm.Since 1986 he has worked in private markets and as a consultant on monetary policy with foreignmonetary authorities. He is the author of The Federal Reserve: What Everyone Needs toKnow.