In addition, FOMC participants often discuss the economy and monetary policy in public forums, and Board members testify frequently before the Congress. In recent years the Federal Reserve has also substantially increased the information it provides about its operations and its balance sheet.
The Government plans to use most of the room for manoeuvre provided by the improvement in the current legislation scenario to undertake new expansionary measures, as set out in the Draft Budgetary Plan approved two days ago, with partially permanent effects on the public deficit.