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March/April 2007

Posted 2007-03-01

Data Dependence

by William Poole

This article was originally presented as a speech at the Middle Tennessee State University Annual Economic Outlook Conference, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, September 29, 2006.

Posted 2007-03-01

Data, Data, and Yet More Data

by William Poole

This article was originally presented as a speech at the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER) Annual Meeting, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, October 16, 2006.

Posted 2007-03-01

Stock Market Booms and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

by Michael D. Bordo and David C. Wheelock

This article examines the association between stock market booms and monetary policy in the United States and nine other developed countries during the 20th century. 

Posted 2007-03-01

Trends in Neighborhood-Level Unemployment in the United States: 1980 to 2000

by Christopher H. Wheeler

Although the average rate of unemployment across U.S. metropolitan areas declined between 1980 and 2000, the geographic concentration of the unemployed rose sharply over this period. That is, residential neighborhoods throughout the nation’s metropolitan areas became increasingly divided into high- and low-unemployment areas.