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In the light of public disclosure, CRA gains luster
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Thomas J. Holmes on Wal-Mart's location strategy
Holmes describes Wal-Mart's location strategy and possible implications for the Ninth District.
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Monopolies: Silent Spreaders of Poverty and Economic Inequality
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the vast inequalities that exist within the US economy. As the virus has spread silently, it has laid bare other crises that face our nation---especially the economic vulnerabilities of the country's poor and marginalized. Many of these vulnerabilities can, in fact, be traced back to a single cause that itself has spread silently, but over the last several decades, not months: Monopolies. That monopolies are "silent spreaders of poverty and economic inequality" was well known to economic and legal scholars of the 1930s and 1940s. Wendell Berge, who was ...
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Another reason to love country living
Kansas City Fed's Wilkerson talks about prices in rural housing markets
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Claire Strom on James J. Hill's legacy and influence on the northern Great Plains
Interview with Claire Strom, author of Profiting From the Plains.
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Interview with James Tobin
From his 1951 appearance in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, through his service in President Kennedy's administration, his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Economics and in his continuing work at Yale University, James Tobin has often been in the public eye. He is an economist who has worked on issues ranging from public policy questions of the day to more complicated, academic arcana?and always with the ability to discuss those issues with a lay audience.
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