Abbreviations
Monetary Policy Report submitted to the Congress on February 22, 2019, pursuant to section 2B of the Federal Reserve Act
- AFE
- advanced foreign economy
- BOE
- Bank of England
- C&I
- commercial and industrial
- CRE
- commercial real estate
- DFMU
- designated financial market utility
- EBITDA
- earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
- ECB
- European Central Bank
- EME
- emerging market economy
- EPOP
- employment-to-population
- EU
- European Union
- FOMC
- Federal Open Market Committee; also, the Committee
- GDP
- gross domestic product
- JOLTS
- Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
- LFPR
- labor force participation rate
- LSAP
- large-scale asset purchase
- MBS
- mortgage-backed securities
- Michigan survey
- University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers
- ON RRP
- overnight reverse repurchase agreement
- PCE
- personal consumption expenditures
- SEP
- Summary of Economic Projections
- SLOOS
- Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices
- SSDI
- Social Security Disability Insurance
- TCJA
- Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
- TGA
- Treasury General Account
- TIPS
- Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
- VIX
- implied volatility for the S&P 500 index
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February 22, 2019