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Chair Powell answers reporters' questions at the FOMC press conference on May 7, 2025. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
Date: July 2014
Medium: Digital Photomontage
Dimensions: w 42" x h 63"
© 2014 Tony DeVarco
Part of a corporate commission "Looking @ Baltimore"
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine- www.nps.gov/fomc/index.htm
Fort McHenry History- www.nps.gov/fomc/historyculture/history-of-fort-mchenry.htm
Fort McHenry fife and drum corp- www.fortmchenryguard.org/corps-of-artillery-field-music.html
NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 16: Traders work on of the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 16, 2008 in New York City. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met today and announced they will hold the federal funds rate at 2.0 percent, despite the recent turmoil among investment banks on Wall Street. U.S. stocks were mixed following yesterday's Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge of 4.4% or 504 points, being the worst single day loss since the terrorist attacks of September 2001. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
FINDING MUSIC: Dealing With Out of Print & Orphan Works
Walter McDonough, Mario Bouchard, Peter Gutmann, Michael Taft, Oliver Metzger
The members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System participate in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting held on March 18-19, 2025, at the William McChesney Martin Jr. Building in Washington, D.C.
FOMC meetings, calendars, statements, and minutes are available here. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
Please note: Confidential documents seen in this photo have been obscured.
CRICKET IDOL: Fans taking photograph with a cut-out of Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni on display, on the shores of Marina Beach, the second longest beach in the worldcut-out at a beach studio on Marina Beach in Chennai. For many Indians, Cricket is the religion and the cricketers are idols.
Chair Powell answers reporters' questions at the FOMC press conference on March 19, 2025.
FOMC meetings, calendars, statements, and minutes are available here. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
Statue of Orpheus
Featured in a BRAND NEW Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan -- ”The Rocket’s Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
Baltimore (Independent City), MD
Listed: 10/15/1966
Fort McHenry, constructed between 1794 and 1802 to guard the entrance to the Baltimore harbor, is recognized as one of the finest surviving examples of coastal fortifications built during the First American System. This system of federally-funded forts spanned the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico to protect strategic ports from foreign invasion. The site derives preeminent national significance from its pivotal role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812, withstanding a 25-hour British naval bombardment on September 13-14, 1814. From its establishment until 1912, Fort McHenry remained an active military post. In 1925 Congress designated the fort a national park and “perpetual national memorial shrine” under the administration of the War Department. These efforts are significantly linked to the historic preservation philosophy of the time and the growing recognition that the federal government should play an active role in the protection and interpretation of the nation’s most important historic sites.
In 1939, the fort was redesignated as Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, the only park in the nation to bear this dual distinction.
Francis Scott Key, detained off-shore by the British during the 1814 attack on the fort, witnessed the bombardment and was moved to write the poem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key wrote his poem in 1814, in the last year of the War of 1812. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. At first, the British were too busy fighting the French to devote much energy to the pesky Americans. Once Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, the British set out to teach their former colonies a lesson. In August, fifty ships sailed up Chesapeake Bay. After occupying Washington on August 24, and burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings, the British turned their attention northward. Fort McHenry stood between the British navy and the city of Baltimore. When the fort refused to be subdued, the ships sailed away, to the cheers of the defenders. For many Americans, the War of 1812 was the “Second War of Independence.”
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as “The Star Spangled Banner,” has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.
. Kendra Brooks
Action United Pennsylvania
I had the American dream, and then the world changed. I always followed the rules and did everything you should to succeed. I have an MBA, I worked for the same organization for 15 years running programs for special needs kids, and supervised a staff of 100 employees. I lost my job last year when my department got downsized.
I almost lost my house, my car was repossessed twice in a year, I had to spend my savings, and when my savings was gone I had to cash out my 401k just to pay my bills and survive. This past year I looked for jobs everywhere, across all sectors, jobs below my level and above my level, I even dumbed down my resume because people told me I was overqualified for the jobs I was applying for. But I had to. My unemployment ran out after six months, and in this economy, even people like me with experience and education can’t find a job in six months.
The Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser was the only person to dissent at the last FOMC meeting because he thinks we’re making economic progress. Mr. Plosser, I’ll admit that falling unemployment number you’re looking at includes me. I found a job. But now I make half of what I made before, I could no longer pay for my daughter’s education so she had to stop going to school and enlist in the army. Is that your idea of economic progress, Mr. Plosser?
Esther George of the Kansas City Fed shares a lot of your opinions and she talked with us in Jackson Hole for two hours. I invite you to do the same thing and meet with groups like Action United and other allied organizations in your region to hear our perspective.
According to the American Dream, if you work hard, you see the results. But that’s not true anymore. Not in this economy.
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This peaceful scene was one of incredible violence in mid September, 1814. The British fleet was in the waters in the distance and was bombarding Ft. McHenry, where you are standing looking out. However, in their arrogance, they ventured to close to the shore batteries and deadly fire from the Americans forced them to beat a retreat to a safer distance, where they continued their work, but at a much less effective rate. Early the next morning, the flag waving over Ft. McHenry indicated to Francis Scott Key, a young Washington lawyer who was a member of a peace delegation aboard an American truce ship in the harbor, that the fort was still in American hands. From this night's events, Key penned the words to the Star Spangled Banner. First published under the title "Defence of Fort McHenry" the poem was published the next day and was soon being sung to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven." We now know it as the Star Spangled Banner and it became the national anthem of the United States in 1931.
This was the first and last time Ft. McHenry came under any attack although it remained an active military base for another 100 years. Learn more about Ft. McHenry at the National Park Service website at www.nps.gov/fomc/
Chair Powell answers reporters' questions at the FOMC press conference on December 18, 2024. www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
Bombproof No. 2
Featured in a BRAND NEW Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan -- ”The Rocket’s Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
Baltimore (Independent City), MD
Listed: 10/15/1966
Fort McHenry, constructed between 1794 and 1802 to guard the entrance to the Baltimore harbor, is recognized as one of the finest surviving examples of coastal fortifications built during the First American System. This system of federally-funded forts spanned the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico to protect strategic ports from foreign invasion. The site derives preeminent national significance from its pivotal role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812, withstanding a 25-hour British naval bombardment on September 13-14, 1814. From its establishment until 1912, Fort McHenry remained an active military post. In 1925 Congress designated the fort a national park and “perpetual national memorial shrine” under the administration of the War Department. These efforts are significantly linked to the historic preservation philosophy of the time and the growing recognition that the federal government should play an active role in the protection and interpretation of the nation’s most important historic sites.
In 1939, the fort was redesignated as Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, the only park in the nation to bear this dual distinction.
Francis Scott Key, detained off-shore by the British during the 1814 attack on the fort, witnessed the bombardment and was moved to write the poem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key wrote his poem in 1814, in the last year of the War of 1812. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. At first, the British were too busy fighting the French to devote much energy to the pesky Americans. Once Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, the British set out to teach their former colonies a lesson. In August, fifty ships sailed up Chesapeake Bay. After occupying Washington on August 24, and burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings, the British turned their attention northward. Fort McHenry stood between the British navy and the city of Baltimore. When the fort refused to be subdued, the ships sailed away, to the cheers of the defenders. For many Americans, the War of 1812 was the “Second War of Independence.”
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as “The Star Spangled Banner,” has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.
Sally Port
Featured in a BRAND NEW Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan -- ”The Rocket’s Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
Baltimore (Independent City), MD
Listed: 10/15/1966
Fort McHenry, constructed between 1794 and 1802 to guard the entrance to the Baltimore harbor, is recognized as one of the finest surviving examples of coastal fortifications built during the First American System. This system of federally-funded forts spanned the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico to protect strategic ports from foreign invasion. The site derives preeminent national significance from its pivotal role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812, withstanding a 25-hour British naval bombardment on September 13-14, 1814. From its establishment until 1912, Fort McHenry remained an active military post. In 1925 Congress designated the fort a national park and “perpetual national memorial shrine” under the administration of the War Department. These efforts are significantly linked to the historic preservation philosophy of the time and the growing recognition that the federal government should play an active role in the protection and interpretation of the nation’s most important historic sites.
In 1939, the fort was redesignated as Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, the only park in the nation to bear this dual distinction.
Francis Scott Key, detained off-shore by the British during the 1814 attack on the fort, witnessed the bombardment and was moved to write the poem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key wrote his poem in 1814, in the last year of the War of 1812. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. At first, the British were too busy fighting the French to devote much energy to the pesky Americans. Once Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, the British set out to teach their former colonies a lesson. In August, fifty ships sailed up Chesapeake Bay. After occupying Washington on August 24, and burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings, the British turned their attention northward. Fort McHenry stood between the British navy and the city of Baltimore. When the fort refused to be subdued, the ships sailed away, to the cheers of the defenders. For many Americans, the War of 1812 was the “Second War of Independence.”
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as “The Star Spangled Banner,” has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.
Magazine No. 3
Featured in a BRAND NEW Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan -- ”The Rocket’s Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
Baltimore (Independent City), MD
Listed: 10/15/1966
Fort McHenry, constructed between 1794 and 1802 to guard the entrance to the Baltimore harbor, is recognized as one of the finest surviving examples of coastal fortifications built during the First American System. This system of federally-funded forts spanned the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico to protect strategic ports from foreign invasion. The site derives preeminent national significance from its pivotal role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812, withstanding a 25-hour British naval bombardment on September 13-14, 1814. From its establishment until 1912, Fort McHenry remained an active military post. In 1925 Congress designated the fort a national park and “perpetual national memorial shrine” under the administration of the War Department. These efforts are significantly linked to the historic preservation philosophy of the time and the growing recognition that the federal government should play an active role in the protection and interpretation of the nation’s most important historic sites.
In 1939, the fort was redesignated as Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, the only park in the nation to bear this dual distinction.
Francis Scott Key, detained off-shore by the British during the 1814 attack on the fort, witnessed the bombardment and was moved to write the poem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key wrote his poem in 1814, in the last year of the War of 1812. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. At first, the British were too busy fighting the French to devote much energy to the pesky Americans. Once Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, the British set out to teach their former colonies a lesson. In August, fifty ships sailed up Chesapeake Bay. After occupying Washington on August 24, and burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings, the British turned their attention northward. Fort McHenry stood between the British navy and the city of Baltimore. When the fort refused to be subdued, the ships sailed away, to the cheers of the defenders. For many Americans, the War of 1812 was the “Second War of Independence.”
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as “The Star Spangled Banner,” has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.
American Privateer's Monument
Featured in a BRAND NEW Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plan -- ”The Rocket’s Red Glare”: Francis Scott Key and the Bombardment of Fort McHenry
Baltimore (Independent City), MD
Listed: 10/15/1966
Fort McHenry, constructed between 1794 and 1802 to guard the entrance to the Baltimore harbor, is recognized as one of the finest surviving examples of coastal fortifications built during the First American System. This system of federally-funded forts spanned the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico to protect strategic ports from foreign invasion. The site derives preeminent national significance from its pivotal role in the defense of Baltimore during the War of 1812, withstanding a 25-hour British naval bombardment on September 13-14, 1814. From its establishment until 1912, Fort McHenry remained an active military post. In 1925 Congress designated the fort a national park and “perpetual national memorial shrine” under the administration of the War Department. These efforts are significantly linked to the historic preservation philosophy of the time and the growing recognition that the federal government should play an active role in the protection and interpretation of the nation’s most important historic sites.
In 1939, the fort was redesignated as Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, the only park in the nation to bear this dual distinction.
Francis Scott Key, detained off-shore by the British during the 1814 attack on the fort, witnessed the bombardment and was moved to write the poem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Key wrote his poem in 1814, in the last year of the War of 1812. The United States had declared war on Great Britain in June 1812. At first, the British were too busy fighting the French to devote much energy to the pesky Americans. Once Napoleon abdicated in April 1814, the British set out to teach their former colonies a lesson. In August, fifty ships sailed up Chesapeake Bay. After occupying Washington on August 24, and burning the Capitol, the White House, and other public buildings, the British turned their attention northward. Fort McHenry stood between the British navy and the city of Baltimore. When the fort refused to be subdued, the ships sailed away, to the cheers of the defenders. For many Americans, the War of 1812 was the “Second War of Independence.”
Few people remember the War of 1812 today, but the poem it inspired, almost immediately set to music as “The Star Spangled Banner,” has become the national anthem of the United States and a potent source of inspiration and community for Americans in times of crisis.