This market-leading textbook provides the most authoritative, applications-rich coverage of key concepts, models, and issues in money and banking. The Sixth Edition Update features a careful revision of data, figures, and boxes that reflects the current economic landscape--providing students with up-to-date information making the economic theory more relevant to their daily lives. In this text, Mishkin draws from his service as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to offer fresh insights into the monetary policy process, the operation of the Federal Reserve, the regulation and supervision of the financial system, and the internationalization of financial markets. In addition, Mishkin provides a careful, step-by-step development of models, an approach found in the best principles of economics textbooks. In addition, the text provides a careful, step-by-step development of models and contains over 400 end-of-chapter problems to reinforce essential chapter content.