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This is not your father's recession ... or is it?
The current declines in employment and income are consistent with what happened in previous recessions going back to 1969. Unique this time are the major drop in home prices and the proactive response by policymakers.Recessions
Federal Reserve assets: understanding the pieces of the pie
One way to examine the composition of assets on the Fed's balance sheet is to group them according to the objectives of the programs used to acquire them.Government securities ; Fiscal policy
The current recession: how bad is it?
In a recession, the severity of the decline is just as relevant as the duration of the recession.Recessions
Predicting consumption: a lesson in real-time data
Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index ; Consumption (Economics)
Convergence in the United States: a tale of migration and urbanization
We use non-parametric distribution dynamics techniques to reassess the convergence of per capita personal income (PCPI) across U.S. states and across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan portions of states for the period 1969-2005. The long-run distribution of PCPI is bimodal for both states and metro/nonmetro portions. Further- more, the high income mode of the distribution across metro and nonmetro portions corresponds to the single mode of the long-run distribution across metro portions only. These results (polarization or club-convergence) are reversed when weighting by population. The long run distributions across people are consistent with convergence. Migration and urbanization are the forces behind convergence.Migration, Internal ; Income distribution
Vacancies and unemployment
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.Unemployment ; Recessions ; Labor market
Economic misfortunes have caused many to reassess their finances, triggering sharp reversals in borrowing and spending habits
Households - Economic aspects ; Consumer behavior
The commercial paper market, the Fed, and the 2007-2009 financial crisis
Since its inception in the early nineteenth century, the U.S. commercial paper market has grown to become a key source of short-term funding for major businesses, with issuance averaging over $100 billion per day. In the fall of 2008, the commercial paper market achieved national prominence when increasing market stress caused some to fear that, given its size and importance, the market's failure would sharply worsen the recession. The Department of the Treasury and Federal Reserve enacted programs targeted at providing credit and liquidity to restore investor confidence. The authors review the history of the commercial paper market, describe its structure and key relationships to money market mutual funds, and present a detailed discussion of the crisis in the market, including the resulting Federal Reserve programs.Commercial paper issues ; Financial crises
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