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Data Link Helps Shed Light on Banks and Public Equity
Anna Kovner, Phoebe White, and Lily Zhou In this post, we offer comparisons between banks with and without publicly traded equity. Our post uses the link produced by the New York Fed containing...
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Drilling Down into Core Inflation: Goods versus Services
M. Henry Linder, Richard Peach, and Robert W. Rich Among the measures of core inflation used to monitor the inflation outlook, the series excluding food and energy prices is probably the best known and...
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Just Released: New York’s Latest Beige Book Report Points to Sustained Growth
Jaison R. Abel and Jason Bram The New York Fed’s latest Beige Book report points to continued moderate growth in the regional economy. Eight times a year, each of the nation’s twelve Federal Reserve...
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Crisis Chronicles: 300 Years of Financial Crises (1620–1920)
James Narron and David Skeie As momentous as financial crises have been in the past century, we sometimes forget that major financial crises have occurred for centuries—and often. This new series...
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States Are Recovering Lost Jobs at Surprisingly Similar Rates
Jason Bram and James A. Orr The U.S. economy lost more than 8 million jobs between January 2008 and February 2010. In contrast with earlier recessions, employment declines were seen across almost all...
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Just Released: Are Recent College Graduates Finding Good Jobs?
Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz Stories abound about recent college graduates who are struggling to find good jobs in today’s economy, especially with student debt levels rising so quickly. But just...
View ArticleHistorical Echoes: Skull Bumps and Economic Behavior
Amy Farber Phrenology (see this amusing four-minute video), popular in the first half of the nineteenth century, was the study of skull shape and contours (believed to indicate the location of more-...
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