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The changing face of the Eighth District
The census shows we lag the country in population growth and in racial diversity.
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The American economy: producing more with less?
U.S. workers are not only making more stuff, but, thanks to improvements in technology and production, they're doing it faster than anyone believed possible.
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Cartels: breaking up ain't hard to do
Talk about a slippery slope. Keeping a cartel together is like trying to stop on ice-just when you think you've done it, it slips out from under you.
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Overblown productivity?
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To boldly go where we have gone before: repeating the interest rate mistakes of the past
Some observers want the Fed to do something about the nation's persistently high long-term interest rates. But what they're asking for has been tried before to no avail.
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A new universe in banking after financial modernization
After decades of discussion, the walls between commercial and investment banking and insurance have finally been taken down. And despite lingering questions about the size and the riskiness of the large institutions that may emerge, the biggest question to ask is why this took so long.
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The overlooked 40 percent: the rural Eighth District
Manufacturers are beginning to discover that, when it comes to an ample and affordable labor force, rural areas in our region put urban ones to pasture.
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Permits, contracts, closings: real estate in the Eighth District
Construction may have slowed somewhat in the area's real estate market, but it's still worth writing home about.