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How to save gas
Pricing mechanisms, not fuel-economy standards, offer the best hope for reducing motor fuel consumption
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Interview with Donald E. Powell
The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shares his thoughts on regulatory reform, the value of market data and other issues
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Urban legends
For centuries, economists have struggled to explain why people and businesses gather in cities.
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Why Johnny can’t work
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Interview with Kenneth Rogoff
Interview with Harvard economist about financial globalization, risks to central bank independence and the history of financial crises.
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Interview with Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
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Interview with Alice Rivlin
Vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors is the latest in a series of public service positions Alice Rivlin has held over the past 30-plus years. In 1996 she made the shift from fiscal to monetary affairs with ease.
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Wives at work
From 1950 to 1990, married women tripled their hours in the workplace. New research suggests that reduced wage discrimination-not better appliances or higher incomes-caused this sea change in the workforce
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Interview with Joseph E. Stiglitz
When Joseph Stiglitz was named to the president's Council of Economic Advisers in 1993, one pundit named the group "the dream team of economics," and another writer later dubbed him the council's "idea man."