Recent Open Market Committee Policy and Technique
I. Introduction, 321. — II. Basic arguments for a free government securities market, 323. — III. Evaluation of the free market hypotheses, 328. — IV. Technical advantages of a free market, 333. — V. "Bills only, " minimum intervention, and monetary management, 335; effects of operations in the bill market on the long-term sector, 335; internal consistency of the "bills-only" doctrine with minimum intervention, 339; implicit limitations of bill operations, 340. — VI. Conclusions, 341.