Balancing different economic goals is challenging for the Federal Reserve. Sometimes this institution has to choose between different goals, such as lowering inflation or encouraging economic growth. Then the Federal Reserve carries out monetary policy intended to achieve its goal. But the Federal Reserve's actions do not mean that the goal will be achieved. At times, monetary policy is effective. Other times, actions by individuals, businesses, and governments—both at home and in foreign countries—cause monetary policy not to work as well. For this project, you will figure out whether a certain monetary policy was effective or not in achieving its goal.

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What role did radio free europe play in western countries' cold warstrategy?

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?