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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:30:15 CST</pubDate>
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      <title>Vacancies and Unemployment</title>
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      <description>By Riccardo DiCecio and Charles S. Gascon. Expansions are usually associated with plentiful vacancies and a low number of unemployed workers. During recessions the unemployment pool swells while employers seek to fill fewer job openings.</description>
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      <title>International Trade Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization</title>
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      <description>By Luciana Juvenal. The changes in international trade
and finance are linked to the changes
in business cycle correlations.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:04:46 CDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Home Prices: A Case for Cautious Optimism</title>
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      <description>By Rajdeep Sengupta and Yu Man Tam. Many analysts are cautiously optimistic that the house price decline has ended, citing that house prices increased in June and July. There are several reasons for being cautious.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:34:56 CDT</pubDate>
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      <title>Monetary Policy Stance: The View from Consumption Spending</title>
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      <description>By William T. Gavin. We should expect a third business cycle in succession in which the real federal funds rate reaches its trough well after the economy begins to recover.</description>
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