Federal reserve of the United States (the EDF).
The Federal Reserve is probably the central bank with more influence in the world. With Dollar U.S quoted to other currencies in 90% of the transactions the Federal Reserve has a deep effect on these currencies.
The Committee of Operations of Open Market is a being within the Federal Reserve, that decides if the interest rate raises or lower. This Committee consists more of 7 governors of Federal Reserve 5 of the 12 presidents of the Federal Banks of the District.
The goal of Federal Reserve is to maintain a sustainable growth of the economy and stability of the prices to the long term.
Committee FOMC (abbreviations in English for Committee of Operations of Open Market) meets to decide its monetary policy 8 times to during the year.
At the moment the president of the Federal Reserve is Horseradish tree Bernanke named by president George W. Bush in January of the 2006, when retiring Alan Greenspan who was president of the Federal Reserve from the times of Ronald Reagan.
