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Bank of Japan Accounts (May 10)
May 12, 2021 Bank of Japan Assets (thousand yen) Gold 441,253,409 Cash1 191,634,241 Japanese government securities 534,566,462,367 Commercial paper2 2,855,515,509 Corporate bonds3 7,573,645,807 Pecuniary trusts (stocks held as trust property)4 555,463,081 Pecuniary trusts (index-linked exchange-traded funds held as trust property)5 36,064,937,773 Pecuniary trusts (Japan real estate investment trusts held as trust...
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Average Interest Rates by Type of Deposit
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Monetary Base and the Bank of Japan’s Transactions (Apr.)
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Bank of Japan’s Transactions with the Government (Apr.)
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Market Operations by the Bank of Japan (Apr.)
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Collapse of Greensill Capital has strong historical parallels with fall of the medieval Medici bank
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FinTech, BigTech and Cryptos – will new technology render banks obsolete?
Amol Agrawal: Mostly Economics
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Collapse of Greensill Capital has strong historical parallels with fall of the medieval Medici bank
Superb article by Prof Harold James in Proj Syndicate: The collapse of Greensill Capital has a strong historical parallel in the decline and fall of the medieval Medici bank after it went too far with the financial innovations of its own day. The lessons from both failures are clear, but most likely will be forgotten until the next financial meltdown. This entry was posted on May 11, 2021...
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FinTech, BigTech and Cryptos – will new technology render banks obsolete?
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LIC IPO: An Empirical Study
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The Hindu In Focus Podcast: Understanding banking reforms in India after the Narasimham era
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ECB’s Young PHD in economics/finance competition
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Impact of Micro Financial reforms vs Impact of Macro Financial reforms
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The Battle Over Patents: Why US-style patent system has come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity?
Atlanta Fed
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Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
« Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons? | Main Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website, although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who use RSS should update their feed's URL to https://www.frbatlanta.org/rss/macroblog.aspx. ...
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Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons?
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Faster Wage Growth for the Lowest-Paid Workers
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Is Job Switching on the Decline?
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Private and Central Bank Digital Currencies
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New Evidence Points to Mounting Trade Policy Effects on U.S. Business Activity
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Digging into Older Americans’ Flat Participation Rate
Bank of Canada
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Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance
Opening statement House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Available as: PDF
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Bank of Canada becomes inaugural member of new, international Central Bank Network for Indigenous Inclusion
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Annual Report 2020
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Bank of Canada statement on Monetary Policy Report embargo breach
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Monetary Policy Report Press Conference Opening Statement
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Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, adjusts quantitative easing program
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Monetary Policy Report – April 2021
Bank of International Settlement
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Project Rio
Rio is a prototype of a central bank-specific, real-time capable market monitoring platform. The cloud-based stream processing platform will process real-time financial data feeds and compute relevant liquidity and market risk measures.
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Project Helvetia and Project Rio
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Banking on a new digital ecosystem – new opportunities, business models and regulation
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Central bankers at the frontier: the state of the art in advanced analytics and AI
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Payments in a post-Covid world
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Navigating the uncharted waters of retail CBDC
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Financial innovation in Latin America
Bank Of Japan
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Bank of Japan Accounts (May 10)
May 12, 2021 Bank of Japan Assets (thousand yen) Gold 441,253,409 Cash1 191,634,241 Japanese government securities 534,566,462,367 Commercial paper2 2,855,515,509 Corporate bonds3 7,573,645,807 Pecuniary trusts (stocks held as trust property)4 555,463,081 Pecuniary trusts (index-linked exchange-traded funds held as trust property)5 36,064,937,773 Pecuniary trusts (Japan real estate investment trusts held as trust...
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Average Interest Rates by Type of Deposit
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Monetary Base and the Bank of Japan’s Transactions (Apr.)
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Bank of Japan’s Transactions with the Government (Apr.)
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Market Operations by the Bank of Japan (Apr.)
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Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2021
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Review of the Benchmark Ratio Used to Calculate the Macro Add-on Balance in Current Account Balances at the Bank of Japan
David Andolfatto: Macro Mania
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Labor Force Participation Gaps Between the U.S. and Canada
Am hearing some talk about whether the U.S. labor market can fully recover to its pre-Covid19 levels. Is it possible that a sizeable number of workers with marginal attachment to the workforce decide to remain out of the labor force? For example, this crisis, unlike the one that preceded it, has been associated with large increases in personal wealth. Workers on the cusp of retiring may now choose to do so earlier? (This is just one of the...
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On the Role and Future of Cryptocurrencies
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A Natural Rate of Interest
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Is it time for some unpleasant monetarist arithmetic?
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A Journey in Macroeconomic Thinking
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[INTERVENTION] DAVID ANDOLFATTO Trading Societies of the Western Himalayas
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Bob Murphy Show ep 175: David Andolfatto Defends the Fed
ECB Press Releases
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Private sector working group on euro risk-free rates publishes recommendations on EURIBOR fallbacks
11 May 2021 Working group recommendations should help EURIBOR users comply with EU Benchmarks Regulation fallback obligations Key milestone reached with publication of recommendations as working group enters new phase and secretariat passes from ECB to ESMA The private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has today published its recommendations addressing events that would trigger fallbacks in EURIBOR-related contracts, as well as...
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Philip R. Lane: Interview with Le Monde
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Frank Elderson: Interview with Het Financieele Dagblad
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ECB updates treatment of leverage ratio in the Eurosystem monetary policy counterparty framework
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Christine Lagarde: Towards a green capital markets union for Europe
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Philip R. Lane: Taking stock: The ECB strategy review and current challenges for monetary policy
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Luis de Guindos: Interview with La Repubblica
FRED
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In poor countries, no richer but living longer? : World Bank data on life expectancy and GDP in low-income vs. high-income countries
The World Bank has many data series that allow comparisons among countries over time, and today’s FRED graph reveals some trends in life expectancy and national income. Lower life expectancy in low-income countries has been catching up. In 1982, life expectancy at birth in low-income countries was about 66% of what it was in high-income countries. Then life expectancy increased at a faster pace in low-income countries, and the value rose to...
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Workers with a disability : A closer look at disability in the U.S. civilian labor force
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How COVID shocked state and local revenue : BEA data track the ups and downs of federal grants-in-aid and local tax revenue
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A new measure of economic health : New FRED data decomposes the evolution of monthly GDP
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Who’s online? Mapping Internet use around the world : World Bank data on national income and Internet use
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The growing consumer appetite for fresh fruits : Farm fresh FRED data at your fingertips
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FRED at 30: Growth in series and users
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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Money Supply 2014-07-29 13:41:38
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ECB caught up in economists’ spat
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TLTRO: how well has the ECB targeted its loans?
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Live blog: Mario Draghi’s monthly ECB press conference
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Japan’s inflation expectations: glass half empty?
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Carney’s (old) new normal
iMFdirect
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Chart of the WeekHow Stock Markets Respond to Social Unrest
Philip Barrett and Sophia Chen What happens to stock markets when social unrest—such as mass protests and riots—occurs? Are investors scared-off by the disorder? Or are they buoyed by the prospect of positive, popular change in response to unrest? Our chart of the week, drawn from our recent IMF staff working paper, uses a new dataset of 156 social unrest events during 2011–20 to shed some light on these questions. It shows that in countries...
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Better Data for Climate Action
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Economies in the Financial Spotlight in 2021
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Chart of the WeekUS Dollar Share of Global Foreign Exchange Reserves Drops to 25-Year Low
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MENA Economies Emerging from the Pandemic: A Conversation with Jihad Azour
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A Conversation with the President of Côte d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara and Kristalina Georgieva
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Perspectives économiques régionales pour l’Afrique subsaharienne, avril 2021
Impact Evaluations
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Weekly links May 10: why CCTs aren’t enforced before elections, when evidence isn’t used, digitalizing data, and more…
On Let’s Talk Development, results from tax compliance trials in Kosovo show some small increases from reminders, but also highlight the challenges of implementation, with many people not receiving their assigned treatment (e.g. half the letters not making it to recipients, less than one-quarter of emails opened). The CSAE coder’s corner has Meredith Paker sharing ...
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Labor Data and Quantity/Quality Tradeoffs
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A different take on “Targeting the Ultra-Poor” programs
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Weekly links May 3: reducing survey non-response or perhaps it is ok, s-values, an award for incentives, and more…
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Gender bias and getting grants
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Capturing cost data: a first-mile problem
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Weekly links April 26: Submissions fees coming to a journal near you, recursive rankings, business mentoring, stop your workers quitting by letting them complain, and more…
JP Koning: Moneyness
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A nickel is worth more than a nickel
Having just emerged from the fiasco of last year's coin shortage (which I wrote about here and here), the U.S. Mint has a new problem on its hands. The melt value of the nickel, or five cent coin, has suddenly moved higher than the coin's face value.Thanks to the big rally in copper prices, a nickel coin is once again worth more than 5¢ https://t.co/2ZEkkxqEVR pic.twitter.com/2O2ce0eccN— John Paul Koning (@jp_koning) May 5, 2021 The melt value...
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Is DeFi unregulatable?
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Why did Dogecoin take off but Feathercoin didn’t?
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The Biden stimulus and the big jump in cash
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From Circle-of-Gold to Mega$Nets to Bitcoin
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Hacksilver
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Tether, a bigger badder PayPal
New York Fed
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Women’s Labor Force Participation Was Rising to Record Highs—Until the Pandemic Hit
Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz Women’s labor force participation grew precipitously in the latter half of the 20th century, but by around the year 2000, that progress had stalled. In fact, the labor force participation rate for prime-age women (those aged 25 to 54) fell four percentage points between 2000 and 2015, breaking a decades-long trend. However, as the labor market gained traction in the aftermath of the Great Recession,...
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Many Small Businesses in the Services Sector Are Unlikely to Reopen
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Shock on Women’s Labor Market Outcomes (Full Event, 3/22/21)
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Endogenous Supply Chains, Productivity, and COVID-19
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Hey, Economist! What’s the Case for Central Bank Digital Currencies?
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How One Community Transitioned to Greener Energy
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Register Now: Financing Solar Energy Projects in LMI Communities (5/19/21)
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RBA
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Weekly links October 23: popularizing research, partial identification, celebrating ideas-led growth, and more…
Berk Ozler Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank David McKenzie Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Markus Goldstein Lead Economist, Africa Region and Research Group, World Bank David Evans Senior Economist Development Impact Guest Blogger Guest bloggers
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Exporting on eBay: The Impact of Lowering the Hassle Costs of Exporting
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Weekly links October 16: business plan press, Deaton, policies for a better-fed world, and more…
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What is the return on adult education? Evidence from India
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Weekly links October 9: the next step in transparency? Minimum wages in Africa, pirates, and more…
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Weekly links October 2: IV-bashing, the verdict on cash, we are hiring, opening lines, and more…
RBNZ
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New law reforms the regulation of financial market infrastructures (FMIs)
[unable to retrieve full-text content]New laws to regulate and supervise payment and settlement systems have been passed by Parliament following the third reading of the Financial Market Infrastructures Bill (the Bill) yesterday.
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Why the Reserve Bank is concerned about New Zealand's rising house prices
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The Future is Māori
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Financial Stability Report – May 2021
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Financial system sound, but vulnerabilities remain
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Te Pūtea Matua becomes inaugural member of new, international Central Bank Network for Indigenous Inclusion
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Reserve Bank publishes cyber resilience guidance
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 1970-01-01 00:00:00
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Money Supply 2014-07-29 13:41:38
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ECB caught up in economists’ spat
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TLTRO: how well has the ECB targeted its loans?
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Live blog: Mario Draghi’s monthly ECB press conference
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Japan’s inflation expectations: glass half empty?
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Carney’s (old) new normal
David Andolfatto: Macro Mania
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Labor Force Participation Gaps Between the U.S. and Canada
Am hearing some talk about whether the U.S. labor market can fully recover to its pre-Covid19 levels. Is it possible that a sizeable number of workers with marginal attachment to the workforce decide to remain out of the labor force? For example, this crisis, unlike the one that preceded it, has been associated with large increases in personal wealth. Workers on the cusp of retiring may now choose to do so earlier? (This is just one of the...
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On the Role and Future of Cryptocurrencies
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A Natural Rate of Interest
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Is it time for some unpleasant monetarist arithmetic?
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A Journey in Macroeconomic Thinking
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[INTERVENTION] DAVID ANDOLFATTO Trading Societies of the Western Himalayas
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Bob Murphy Show ep 175: David Andolfatto Defends the Fed
Atlanta Fed
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Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
« Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons? | Main Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website, although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who use RSS should update their feed's URL to https://www.frbatlanta.org/rss/macroblog.aspx. ...
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Is There a Taylor Rule for All Seasons?
-
Faster Wage Growth for the Lowest-Paid Workers
-
Is Job Switching on the Decline?
-
Private and Central Bank Digital Currencies
-
New Evidence Points to Mounting Trade Policy Effects on U.S. Business Activity
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Digging into Older Americans’ Flat Participation Rate