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Why do ransomware gangs like bitcoin? It’s the censorship resistance
A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable ransomware. Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But these gangs don't use bitcoin because it is anonymous. They've chosen it because it is censorship-resistant.Here's a quick illustration of how ransomware works. A university's servers are encrypted by a ransomware operator. Common victims also include corporations, hospitals, or police departments. Only a...
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The Economic History Podcast
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Ceasing emergency federal unemployment benefits: A look at the latest state-level data
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Central Bankers and animal analogies: From hawks/doves to green swans
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Going digital has helped the economy through COVID-19
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Getting Back to Growth
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2021-06-10 – Publication – SNB Research Report 2020
Amol Agrawal: Mostly Economics
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The Economic History Podcast
Seán Kenny, Postdoctoral fellow at und University Sweden has started a superb podcast on economic history. The Economic History podcast is a platform for sharing knowledge, ideas and new research with a general interest audience. Each fortnight, we meet leading academics in the field and discuss a range of topics, including pandemics, long run economic growth, gender issues, financial crises, inequality, sustainable development and a number...
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Central Bankers and animal analogies: From hawks/doves to green swans
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How the Civil War Shapes the Future of Stablecoins
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Financial repression is making a comeback
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Prohibition of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices relating to Securities Market: Case of Franklin Templeton India
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El Salvador is one step closer to making bitcoin legal tender..
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Money, technology and banking: what lessons can China teach the rest of the world?
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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Going digital has helped the economy through COVID-19
Speech summary Western Canadian Chapters of Advocis
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Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, continues quantitative easing
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Release of the Financial System Review
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Financial System Review Summary—2021
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Including everyone helps all of us
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Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance
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Bank of Canada becomes inaugural member of new, international Central Bank Network for Indigenous Inclusion
Bank of International Settlement
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Conference messages and the G20 Presidency programme by Ignazio Visco | Green Swan Conference
Luiz Pereira da Silva draws the main messages of the Green Swan Conference and Ignazio Visco talks about the conference messages in light of the G20 Presidency programme.
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Panel S | | Green Swan Conference 2021
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Panel P | Green Swan Conference 2021
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Panel Q | Green Swan Conference 2021
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Panel R | Green Swan Conference 2021
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Special guest speech by Nicholas Stern | Green Swan Conference
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Special guest speech by Zhou Xiaochuan | Green Swan Conference
Bank Of Japan
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Basic Figures on Fails (May)
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Corporate Goods Price Index (May)
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Average Contract Interest Rates on Loans and Discounts (Apr.)
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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
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Payment and Settlement Systems Report Annex “Standardization in IT related to Digital Currencies”
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Average Interest Rates by Type of Deposit
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Money Stock (May)
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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Monetary policy decisions
10 June 2021 At today’s meeting, the Governing Council decided to confirm its very accommodative monetary policy stance: The interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.00%, 0.25% and -0.50% respectively. The Governing Council expects the key ECB interest rates to remain at their present or lower levels until it has seen the...
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Christine Lagarde, Luis de Guindos: Introductory statement to the press conference (with Q&A)
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Frank Elderson: The embrace of the horizon: Forcefully moving with the changing tide for climate action in financial sector policies
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Christine Lagarde: Learning the right lessons from the past
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International use of the euro broadly stable in 2020
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Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises in the euro area: small businesses continue to report declines in turnover and profits, but activity expected to improve
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Isabel Schnabel: Interview with Reuters
FRED
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Ceasing emergency federal unemployment benefits: A look at the latest state-level data
The federal government has provided emergency unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to states since March 2020 to supplement their regular state programs. On June 12, 2021, Alaska, Iowa, Mississippi, and Missouri will stop accepting those benefits. Over the next several weeks, 21 other states will also withdraw from these federal emergency UI benefit programs. These 25 states are withdrawing from these federal emergency programs before their...
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Teenagers’ labor force participation : BLS data on the evolution of summer jobs
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A V-shaped recovery : Tracking GDP in the G-7 through COVID-19
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The distribution of patents across U.S. states : Tracking innovation for Californians, Massachusettsans, Idahoans, Mainers, etc. etc.
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The jump in used car prices
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Savings are now more liquid and part of “M1 money” : Regulation D has made savings deposits as convenient as currency
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Quits vs. layoffs in recessions and pandemics
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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Getting Back to Growth
By Lone Engbo Christiansen, Ashique Habib, Margaux MacDonald, and Davide Malacrino عربي, Español, 日本語, Português, Русский Producing and consuming more goods and services for the same amount of work sounds too good to be true. In fact, it’s entirely possible. Higher productivity is one of the key ingredients to higher economic growth and incomes. It’s all about how workers become more productive. For many of us, the COVID-19 pandemic has...
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The Benefits of Setting a Lower Limit on Corporate Taxation
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Chart of the WeekFour Factors Behind the Metals Price Rally
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The Next Move: Consequences for Emerging Markets
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CHART OF THE WEEKHow to Reduce COVID-19’s Unequal Effects Across Workers
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Making Affordable Rental Housing Part of Europe’s Recovery
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IMF—New thinking for a changing world
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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Why do ransomware gangs like bitcoin? It’s the censorship resistance
A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable ransomware. Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But these gangs don't use bitcoin because it is anonymous. They've chosen it because it is censorship-resistant.Here's a quick illustration of how ransomware works. A university's servers are encrypted by a ransomware operator. Common victims also include corporations, hospitals, or police departments. Only a...
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A bronze currency in ancient Europe?
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The overconsumption theory of bitcoin (and decentralization in general)
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A nickel is worth more than a nickel
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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
New York Fed
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Sophisticated and Unsophisticated Runs
Marco Cipriani and Gabriele La Spada In March 2020, U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) suffered heavy outflows following the liquidity shock triggered by the COVID-19 crisis. In a previous post, we characterized the run on the prime MMF industry as a whole and the role of the liquidity facility established by the Federal Reserve (the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility) in stemming the run. In this post, based on a recent...
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Who Benefited from PPP Loans by Fintech Lenders?
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Who Received PPP Loans by Fintech Lenders?
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COVID-19 and Small Businesses: Uneven Patterns by Race and Income
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The Overnight Drift in U.S. Equity Returns
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Is the United States Relying on Foreign Investors to Finance Its Bigger Budget Deficit?
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Register Now: Capital Quest: Connecting Capital to Communities (6/03/21)
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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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Te Ōhanga Māori – The Māori Economy 2018 – Part 1
Director and Chief Economist of Berl, Hillmarè Schulze, discusses the findings of the 2018 Māori Economy Report – Te Ōhanga Māori. (Part 1)
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Te Ōhanga Māori – The Māori Economy 2018 – Part 2
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A Strategic View of Te Pūtea Matua’s Balance Sheet
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Reserve Bank taking action to respond to data breach reports
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Reserve Bank files High Court action against TSB Bank
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Monetary Policy Statement – 26 May 2021
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Monetary Support Continued
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?
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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