Region Focus

Spring 2007

Cover Story

School Girl

Academic Alternatives

The theory of school choice sounds great, but it remains controversial. Now, evidence from programs like the one in Milwaukee is beginning to move the discussion from the theoretical to the practical
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Features

Ask the Market

Companies are leading the way in the use of prediction markets. The public sector may soon follow
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Grinding Gears

The jobs bank program has provided greater job security for unionized workers at the Big Three automakers, but at the expense of greater flexibility in labor markets
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Trading Spaces

Conservation efforts get a boost from the market
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A Question of Money

Does money still matter for monetary policy?
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Decoding Messages From The Yield Curve

What does the recent inversion imply for banks in the Fifth District and beyond?


Departments

President's Message

Lessons of the Phillips Curve

Federal Reserve

The Evolution of Fed Communications
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Jargon Alert

Arbitrage

Research Spotlight

Global Warming and American Agriculture

Policy Update

Interest Rate on Loans to Soldiers Capped

Around the Fed

Taxing Questions
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Short Takes/News from around the District

Interview

W. Kip Viscusi
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Economic History

Opening the Vault
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Book Review

The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences
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The Not-So-Dismal Science

The Strategist: The Live and Times of Thomas Schelling
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District/State Economic Conditions

Opinion

In Praise of Theory

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