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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1]
This is a list of United States federal Disaster/Emergency Declarations, managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. [1] [2] This list does not differentiate between States, Territories and Tribal Nations.
Executive Order 12148 was an executive order enacted by President Jimmy Carter on July 20, 1979, to transfer and reassign duties to the newly formed agency, known as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), created by Executive Order 12127.
The Federal Reserve announced the establishment of temporary U.S. dollar liquidity arrangements with other central banks. Official statement: March 15, 2020 0%–0.25% 0.25% 9–1 This was an emergency unscheduled meeting in response to the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Official statement: March 3, 2020 1%–1.25% 2.75% 10–0
The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States.It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics (particularly the panic of 1907) led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises.
A Federal Reserve Bank is a regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. There are twelve in total, one for each of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts that were created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. [1]
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Seal of the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve of the United States gathers and publishes specific economic data and releases them as a Federal Reserve Statistical Release. [1] [2] The main categories include: Principal Economic Indicators; Bank Asset Quality; Bank Assets and Liabilities; Bank Structure Data; Business Finance