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Sovereign debt crises: it’s all Greek to me
Greek's current sovereign debt has reached crisis levels. Should the United States expect something similar? Probably not. Read the August 2010 Newsletter to learn why (or why not).
Journal Article
Flight to safety and U.S. Treasury securities
As in most crises, investors turned to Treasuries in droves over the past couple of years, even as yields declined.
Journal Article
A look at credit default swaps and their impact on the European debt crisis
Did you know that buying a credit default swap can be like buying insurance on your neighbor?s car?and then getting paid when that neighbor has an accident? Learn the ABCs of CDS, and find out why they are so important to any discussion of the European debt crisis.
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The Demographics of Wealth 2015, Essay No. 1: Race, Ethnicity and Wealth
This first essay in the "Demographics of Wealth" series examines the connection between race or ethnicity and wealth accumulation over the past quarter-century. As with subsequent essays, this one is the result of an analysis of data collected between 1989 and 2013 through the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. More than 40,000 heads of households were interviewed over those years.
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The Demographics of Wealth 2015, Essay No. 3: Age, Birth Year and Wealth
This essay documents significant differences in financial choices and financial outcomes across the life cycle (that is, at different stages of life) and across birth-year cohorts (that is, comparing different groups of people who were born at about the same time). Like race-, ethnicity- and education-related disparities, the age- and birth year-related differences described here have existed at least since 1989, when our data begin. We show that gaps in several financial behaviors and financial outcomes related to age and year of birth have grown larger in recent years.
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The Demographics of Wealth, Essay No. 2: Education and Wealth
This essay documents large and growing differences in financial choices and financial outcomes across educational levels since at least 1989, when our data begin.
Periodic Essay
The Middle Class May Be Under More Pressure Than You Think
Periodic Essay
The nation's wealth recovery since 2009 conceals vastly different balance-sheet realities among America's families
Short essays related to research on understanding and strengthening the balance sheets of American households.