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"Insurance and Wealth Building among Lower-income Households" (PDF)
By Robin Newberger and Michelle Coussens
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Fed Letter, No. 251, June 2008.
"A No-Brainer?"
By Doug Campbell
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Region Focus Weekly Update, May 14, 2008.
"Gender Differences in Employment Statistics"
By Yoonsoo Lee and Beth Mowry
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Trends, May 13, 2008.
"Insurance and Asset Building" (PDF)
By Robin Newberger and Michelle Coussens
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Profitwise News and Views, May 2008.
"Boom & Gloom in Housing Markets: The Sequel" (PDF)
By Carlos Garriga
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, May 2008.
"New Monetary Policy Tools?" (PDF)
By Riccardo DiCecio and Charles S. Gascon
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Monetary Trends, May 2008.
"Did You Know? A Primer on Credit Default Swaps"
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Update, Vol. 21, No. 2, Second Quarter 2008.
"Examining the Federal Reserve's New Liquidity Measures"
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Update, Vol. 21, No. 2, Second Quarter 2008.
"Fed Chair Urges Action to Stem Foreclosures"
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Update, Vol. 21, No. 2, Second Quarter 2008.
"Fed Proposes New Protections for Credit Card Users"
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Financial Update, Vol. 21, No. 2, Second Quarter 2008.
"What Is the Optimal Inflation Rate?" (PDF)
By Roberto M. Billi and George A. Kahn
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review, Second Quarter 2008.
"Can Rising Exports Sustain the Farm Boom?"
By Maria Akers and Jason Henderson
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City The Main Street Economist, Issue II, 2008.
"The Financial Markets, Housing, and the Economy"
By Janet L. Yellen
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco FRBSF Economic Letter, 2008-13-14, April 18, 2008.
"Education and Economic Prosperity"
By Charles I. Plosser
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Montgomery County Community College Distinguished Lecture Series, Blue Bell, PA, April 16, 2008.
"Steered Wrong: Brokers, Borrowers, and Subprime Loans" (PDF)
By Keith Ernst, Debbie Bocian, and Wei Li
Center for Responsible Lending, April 8, 2008.
"The Cost of Maintaining Ownership in the Current Crisis: Comparisons in 20 Cities" (PDF)
By Dean Baker, Danilo Pelletiere, and Hye Jin Rho
Center for Economic Policy Research, April 2008.
"Policy Options for the Housing and Financial Markets" (PDF)
By Kim Kowalewski, Damien Moore, and Steven Weinberg
The Congressional Budget Office CBO Paper, April 2008.
"Hedges in the Warehouse: The Banks Get Trimmed" (PDF)
By Brian Gordon and Adrian D'Silva
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Fed Letter, Number 249, April 2008.
"Stamp Scrip: Money People Paid to Use"
By Bruce Champ
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Commentary, April 2008.
"Financial Market Tremors: Causes and Responses"
By Richard W. Fisher
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter —Insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 2008.
"Energy and the Economy" (PDF)
By Richard G. Anderson
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, April 2008.
"Extra Credit: The Rise of Short-term Liabilities"
By Kristie M. Engemann and Michael T. Owyang
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2008.
"The Federal Reserve Seeks To Protect Consumers"
By Sharon K. Blei
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2008.
"Neighborhoods That Don't Work"
By Allison K. Rodean and Christopher H. Wheeler
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Regional Economist, April 2008.
"Early Education's Big Dividends: The Better Public Investment" (PDF)
By Arthur J. Rolnick and Rob Grunewald
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Communities & Banking, Spring 2008.
"The Evolution of Philanthropy" (PDF)
By Kerry Murphy
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Communities & Banking, Spring 2008.
"High Returns: Public Investment in Higher Education" (PDF)
By Philip A. Trostel
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Communities & Banking, Spring 2008.
"Viewpoint: Competitiveness and the Community College" (PDF)
By William D. Green
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Communities & Banking, Spring 2008.
"Industrial Loan Companies: Commercial businesses face head-on opposition to entering the banking sector" (PDF)
By Brye Steeves
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Ten, Spring 2008.
"On the Record: The Dangers of Complacency About Risk, A Conversation with Harvey Rosenblum"
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Southwest Economy, Issue 2, March/April 2008.
"Crisis Preparedness: Reconnecting the Financial Lifeline" (video file)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2008.
"Does the Recent Trend in Labor Demand Presage Recession?"
By Murat Tasci and Beth Mowry
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Trends, March 24, 2008.
"Cost-Effective Carbon Restrictions - A conference summary (Special Issue)" (PDF)
By Sam Kahan and William A. Testa
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Fed Letter, Number 248a, March 2008.
"The Value Chain Case for Health Care Reform—A Conference Summary" (PDF)
by Sam Kahan and William A. Testa
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Fed Letter, No. 248, March 2008.
"Another Window: The Term Auction Facility" (PDF)
By David C. Wheelock
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Monetary Trends, March 2008.
"An Expanded Look at Employment" (PDF)
By Kevin Kliesen
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis National Economic Trends, March 2008.
"Household Survey Indicators Weaken in 2007" (PDF)
By James Marschall Borbely
U.S. Department of Labor Monthly Labor Review, Volume 131, Number 3, March 2008.
"Teachers' Work Patterns: When, Where, and How Much do U.S. Teachers Work?" (PDF)
By Rachel Krantz-Kent
U.S. Department of Labor Monthly Labor Review, Volume 131, Number 3, March 2008.
"The Subprime Crisis: Is It Contagious?"
By Dennis P. Lockhart
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Panel Discussion Thoughts on the Subprime Mortgage Crisis at the Atlanta Commerce Club, February 29, 2008.
"Do Subprime Loans Create Subprime Cities? Surging Inequality and the Rise in Predatory Lending" (PDF)
By Gregory D. Squires
The Economic Policy Institute Briefing Paper, No. 197, February 28, 2008.
"Credit Card Redlining" (PDF)
By Ethan Cohen-Cole
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Quantitative Analysis Unit Working Paper, No. QAU08-1, February 26, 2008.
"Analysis of Subprime Mortgage Servicing Performance" (PDF)
By The State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group, February 7, 2008.
"The Pass-through of Oil Prices to Gasoline Prices"
by Andrea Pescatori and Beth Mowry
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Trends, February 6, 2008.
"Housing Construction Developments"
by Bill Testa
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Midwest Economy blog, February 4, 2008.
"Accounting For the Bond-Yield Conundrum"
By Tao Wu
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter—Insights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Vol. 3, No. 2, February 2008.
"What is Driving Food Price Inflation?" (PDF)
By Jason Henderson
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City The Main Street Economist, Vol. III, Issue I, 2008.
"The FBIIC/FSCC Pandemic Flu Exercise of 2007 after Action Report: US Financial Services Sector Exercise Results" (PDF)
by the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee and the Financial and Banking Information Infrastructure Committee
U.S. Department of the Treasury, January 24, 2008.
"A Historical Perspective on Housing Downturns" (PDF)
by Eric S. Rosengren
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, The Seventeenth Annual Vermont Economic Outlook Conference, Burlington, Vermont, January 11, 2008.
"Stable Prices, Stable Economy: Keeping Inflation in Check Must Be No. 1 Goal of Monetary Policymakers" (PDF)
by William Poole and David C. Wheelock
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Regional Economist, January 2008.
"Walking a Tightrope into 2008" (PDF)
by Joshua A. Byrge and Howard J. Wall
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Regional Economist, January 2008.
"Can You Hear Me Now?" (PDF)
By Kevin L. Kliesen
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Monetary Trends, January 2008.
"Does the housing slump account for the slowdown in productivity growth?" (PDF)
By Bhashkar Mazumder, Ana Rocca, and Daniel G. Sullivan
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Chicago Fed Letter, Number 246, January 2008.
"The Research Literature on Wal-Mart: Some Frowns, Some Smiley Faces"
By Ronald A. Wirtz
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis fedgazette, January 2008.
"From Payroll to Playoffs" (PDF)
By Ernie Siciliano
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Region Focus, Winter 2008.
"Going Private" (PDF)
By Vanessa Sumo
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Region Focus, Winter 2008.
"Virtual Economics: Economists Explore the Research Value of Virtual Worlds" (PDF)
By Doug Campbell
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Region Focus, Winter 2008.
"Wanted: Brains to Train" (PDF)
By Betty Joyce Nash
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Region Focus, Winter 2008.
