Excellent caselaw sites are the Antitrust Case Browser at St. Olaf College, Antitrust Policy at Vanderbilt University, and the Cornell Law Library . Fine-tuning the economy by adjusting the money supply is one of the jobs of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors . Even though The Fed is an independent regulatory commission, executive branch organizations like the Comptroller of the Currency and the President's Council of Economic Advisers also are involved with the supply of money. Important private sites include the 256 data series that are maintained at Business Cycle Indicators . Foreign Central Banks are increasingly important in today's global economy.
Fiscal policy uses taxing, spending, and debt to dampen the economic cycle.
Tax measures begin in the House Committee on Ways and Means and move on to the Senate Finance Committee . On the spending side, the President's budget emanates from the Office of Management and Budget , and makes its way through the Congressional Budget Office , the House Budget and Senate Budget Committees, and the House Appropriations and Senate Appropriations Committees. The federal budget itself can be accessed from the Government Printing Office , and the Bureau of Public Debt manages the debt burden. It is hard to find an economic interest group that does not pay attention to taxing and spending overall, although most do not consider fiscal policy per se until the economy falters. Leading groups include the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , OMBWatch , the Economic Policy Institute's Data Zone , the Concord Coalition , Americans for Fair Taxation , Citizens for Tax Justice , the National Taxpayer's Union , and the venerable Tax Foundation .