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Eighth District population growth follows national pattern
Journal Article
What's under the TARP?
The Financial Stability Plan, initiated under the belief that "[t]here is more risk and greater cost in gradualism than in aggressive action," has several features.
Journal Article
The global recession
...an unusually high percentage of the world's large countries and major U.S. trading partners are currently experiencing a recession.
Newsletter
What’s under the TARP?
The new economic terms and programs?from TARP to TALF to COP?are important, but trying to keep track of it all can make your head spin. Read the March 2009 Newsletter for a clear, concise explanation of the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program designed to help alleviate the nation?s financial crisis.
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Can Social Security survive the baby boomers?
Newsletter
The economic cost of war
It is difficult to measure the cost of the Iraq war and related expenses; it is at least as difficult to decide exactly what costs to measure. The May 2008 issue compares the two most widely cited estimates: one from the Congressional Budget Office and the other from researchers Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. The newsletter also compares these estimates to U.S. GDP over the same time frame to get a better sense of the war's cost in relation to the entire U.S. economy.
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Increasing political freedom may be key to reducing threats
The root causes of terrorism might not be poverty and lack of education, as many believe. Rather, the lack of civil liberties, political rights and the rule of law might be more influential.
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Eighth District fares better than nation in job losses
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The Fed's response to the credit crunch
The Federal Reserve Board has used Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act to create several new lending facilities to address the ongoing strains in the credit market.