Talk:Federal funds rate

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Meaning of Term
An IP editor attempted to add the following: I have deep confusion about Wiki defintion of Feds Fund rate as it says that the rate with which the financial institutions lend each other whereas I have seen it as the rate with which a central banks lend the commercial banks. Please clarify. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.68.200.85 (talk) 10:15, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

"What is the federal funds rate?"
When I ask "What is the federal funds rate?" there's a fair chance I might want to know ... [wait for it] ... what the rate is!! It is, as I type, 2.25-2.5%.

Yes, I could waste my time plowing through to find "Historical" (which is a word typically used for "NOT the present") and find a recent (though not up-to-date) rate.

OVER and OVER and OVER these days I discover -- to my sadness -- that Wikipedia isn't what it used to be. I'm sure this article, like so many others, conforms to someone's logic. IT DOES NOT CONFORM to the needs of Joe Public which often want simple fast answers to simple questions.

Should the article begin with a single-sentence paragraph stating the current rate? Perhaps not. BUT DO NOT REMOVE MY CHANGE unless you have a solution which addresses the problem.

Thanks in advance.Jamesdowallen (talk) 09:32, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Historical rates?
What is this? This section is about historical rates or rather about rate target? It should began from simple sentence like "The first time the rate was set on ... at ... level". The highest level was, the lowest level was etc. Please write properly.

Edit: You can use the paper - Anbil S. et al., "A New Daily Federal Funds Rate Series and History of the Federal Funds Market, 1928-1954", July 2020, https://doi.org/10.20955/wp.2020.016

and paraphraze this: "The Federal Reserve publishes the standard daily-frequency time series for the federal funds rate, which begins in July 1954.3 However, the federal funds market came into being long before that, in the 1920s. This article introduces a new daily series for the federal funds rate that begins at the earliest possible date, April 1928, and continues to the start of the Federal Reserve's series." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.183.140.104 (talk) 20:16, 13 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Edit 2: You can also use this citation of the same paper:
 * "The Herald Tribune reported the prevailing rates for April 4, 1928 as “33/4@4”, and indicated that the number to the left of @ was a bid rate and that to the right an offered rate" (Appendix, p. 22). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.183.140.104 (talk) 21:15, 13 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Please sign your posts with four tildes .—Anita5192 (talk) 21:23, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
 * This is from a subheading close below your 2021 post.
 * "Rates since 2008 global economic downturn:"
 * the data from Dec 19, 2018 follows a pattern of "old figure" - "new figure"
 * the data from Jul 31, 2019 is chaotic
 * `Anita5192`
 * Can something be done to make the presented data stable? Yes, it refers to a solid source but the text/data as presented after a date-threshold is incoherent.
 * Seriously, the .gov doc is there, can the citation be dynamically gleaned from the source document? TIA
 * ReedScarce (talk) 18:34, 29 July 2022 (UTC)