Monetary Policies & Issues

Monetary policy & economic issues. Monetary economics focuses primarily on those factors and data that make up the "monetary" economy, as opposed to the "real" economy. Such factors include money supply, interest rates, stock market performance, etc. While the monetary side of the economy often moves in tandem with the "real" economy, which consists of such factors as employment, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), trade balances, etc., the two occasionally vary in their performance. The most notable interaction among the two sectors of the economy occurred in 1927, when the stock market crash spurred the beginning of America’s Great Depression. The link included herein relate specifically to monetary policies and issues.