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Should the Fed Have a Financial Stability Mandate? Lessons from the Fed's first 100 Years
President Jeffrey Lacker and Research Publications Content Manager Renee Haltom explore the Fed's role in financial stability. Following the global financial crisis of 2007-08, the Fed has been given enhanced regulatory responsibilities to prevent future crises. However, most of the Fed's actions in pursuit of financial stability have historically come through emergency lending once crises are underway. The authors conclude that arguments in favor of emergency lending are based on erroneous readings of history. Instead, emergency lending may undermine financial stability, as well as the Fed's ...
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Jargon alert: Liquidity trap
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Organizing in decline: Tracing the (diminishing) role of unions in today's labor market
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2011/q2/feature4_weblinks.cfm
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Regional News at a Glance
Bankrupt Patriot Coal Questions Its Origin - Rhodes. IPO Succeeds for Northern VA based Hilton - Sablik. State Upholds Rare Negligence Rule - Haltom. D.C. Living Wage Bill Prompts Retailer Pushback - Sablik.
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Interview: Eric Leeper
Renee Haltom interviewed Mr. Leeper in his office in Bloomington, Ind., in February 2016.
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Reaching for Yield
Are the Fed?s low interest rate policies pushing investors toward risk?
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Out from the shadows : The run on shadow banking and a framework for reform
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2010/q3/feature3_weblinks.cfm
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Interview: John Cochrane
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Did Workers Get Worse at Finding Jobs?
Research Spotlight on "Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Job- Seekers."Offsite Robert E. Hall and Sam Schulhofer-Wohl. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, January 2018, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-32.
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Policy update : Fed launches round two of 'quantitative easing'
Related links: https://www.richmondfed.org/-/media/richmondfedorg/publications/research/econ_focus/2010/q4/policy_update_weblinks.cfm