A reading list for central-bank communication.

People, institutions and policy

The channel’s communication reading list approaches central banking from three directions. These are reading suggestions from the publication, not a promise of better trading results.

• Sebastian Mallaby — The Man Who Knew. A biographical route into the history of Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve.
• Ben Bernanke — 21st Century Monetary Policy. A perspective on modern monetary-policy practice and its tools.
• Peter Conti-Brown — The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve. An institutional perspective on how the Federal Reserve is organised.

Read for the framework

The point of the list is to deepen the questions you bring to a policy statement: who is speaking, what institution they represent and which tools are under discussion.