Monetary Policy Limits: Federal Reserve Actions and Tools
Atlanta Fed President and CEO Dennis Lockhart discusses the limits of monetary policy from three angles at the Institute of...
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Manufacturing employment: A longer view
The Southeast's manufacturing sector has experienced impressive gains in per-worker productivity even as the number of people employed in manufacturing...
Mobile Payments have been Mainstream for a while now…
If you believe the pundits, mobile payments are years away from being mainstream. But that’s not at all an accurate...
Banks Ease Lending Terms in First Quarter, Survey Says
Financial Update - Volume 25, Number 2. Loans were a bit easier to come by in the first three months...
Longer-term deflation probabilities about the same
Prices of Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) with similar maturity dates can be used to measure probabilities of a net decline...
Is inflation targeting really dead?
Some economics observers are ready to declare inflation targeting dead. Not so fast, maintains macroblog, which argues that flexible inflation...
Finovate Spring 2012 Recap
Sorry to take a little while to get this posted, but I had an important Mothers Day post to write....
Atlanta Fed Working Paper Explores Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis
Why did so many mortgage borrowers and investors make bad decisions? A working paper by economists Christopher Foote, Kristopher Gerardi,...
Cooperating competitors? Yes, when it comes to payment standards
Private firms generally work together to develop payment standards through membership organizations. Portals and Rails asks: do standards increase competition...
