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2002 (2 issues)
January Check Out Food as Inflation Gauge Futures Market: When It Can and Can't Forecast Spot Prices The Fed Responds to Sept. 11 Attacks Different Generations Generate Economy Road to Recovery Longer Than Average?		April Community Banks Hang Tight Why Married Men Make More The Future of Gov't Surpluses Texarkana Times Two: Same Name, Different State Economy Could Yield Yet Another Suprise
2001 ( 4 issues)
January Rising Oil Prices and Economic Turmoil: Must They Always Go Hand in Hand? Predicting the Fed Divestiture: A Prescription for Healthy Competition Bricks and Mortar,Wood and Shingles: Are Real Estate Markets Still Booming in the Eighth District? Action Jackson: Tennessee Town Seeks to Continue 10-Year Roll		April Should Cities Pay for Sports Facilities? Recession Fears May Be Overstated Point/Counterpoint: How Much of the Gender Wage Gap Is Due to Discrimination? How Healthy is the U.S. Banking System? Funneling Financial Data into Failure Probabilities Storming Forward: After Terrifying Tornado, Fort Smith Continues to Rebuild		July The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compete with History's Best? Blackouts in California ShouldnŐt Cause Panic Here To Bear, or Not to Bear: That Is the Economics Question The Changing Face of the Eighth District Tupelo Fights to Keep Furniture King		October Controlling Risk by Big Banks Can Markets Help? Despite Dark Events, Prospects Remain Bright Low Unemployment: Old Dogs or New Tricks? Suburban Expansion Hopkinsville Farmers: A Cut Above
2000 ( 4 issues)		Return to top
January Price Stability and the Rising Tide: How Low Inflation Lifts All Ships Modernization for the New Millenium Working in the Golden Years and Paying for it The Crisis That Wasn't Asia and the Eighth District Foreign Residents Fill Local Needs in Bowling Green, Ky.		April A New Universe in Banking after Financial Modernization Fed Challenge: Beyond the Briefcase The U.S. Trade Deficit: Sideshow to the "New Economy"? Now and Forever NAFTA Potosi Tries to Keep Head above Water		July Inside the Briefcase: The Art of Predicting the Federal Reserve When Politics Makes No Bedfellows The American Economy: Producing More with Less? Big Fish, Small Ponds: Large Banks in Rural Communities Making Connections: Greenville, Mississippi		October Is Federal Home Loan Bank Funding a Risky Business for the FDIC Monetary Policy in the New Economy The Gender Wage Gap and Wage Discrimination: Illusion or Reality? The District Economy: Still the Front Runner or Just Part of the Pack
1999 ( 4 issues)		Return to top
January Paper Tigers? How the Asian Economies Lost Their Bite On Spreads and Recessions Models and Monetary Policy: More Science than Art? The National and District Economies: Are They Marching in Step?		April Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Asset Prices and Market Speculation What's in a Name? Regional, and Lots of It 'Voting with Your Feet' and Metro-Area Livability Is the Bloom off the Rose for Eighth District Farmers? Overlooked Market Gets Noticed		July Paradise Found? Why the U.S. Economy Stands Apart (An Oasis of Prosperity...) Why Y2K Is A Blessing, Not A Curse Cartels: Breaking Up Ain't Hard to Do Small Banks Get left in the Dust (Drive to Efficiency) Blytheville Spreads Its Wings after Air Force Base Closing		October Down But Not Out: The Future of Community Banks How Long Can the Expansion Continue? The NAIRU Tailor-Made for the Fed? A Tale of Two Cities
1998 ( 4 Issues)		Return to top
January A Brave New Economic World? The Productivity Puzzle What Does a Reserve Bank President Do? Going Once, Going Twice, Sold: Auctions and the Success of Economic Theory Both a Lender and a Borrower Be: Banks Cope with a Deposit Shortage		April The Commercial Paper Market: Who's Minding the Shop? Learning to Talk Fed-Speak How Susceptible is the United States to the Asian Flu? With Tailwinds Blowing, the District Economy Sails On		July Yes, This EMU Will Fly, But Will It Stay Aloft? The Importance of Economic Education Does Big Business Need Taming? The Role of Economics in Antitrust Law District Bank Loans: There's No Place Like Home		October Enhancing Future Retirement Income through 401(k) It's A Small World, After All Have Computers Made Us More Productive? A Puzzle Personal Bankruptcy: The New American Pastime?
1997 ( 4 Issues)		Return to top
January The Overlooked 40 Percent: The Rural Eighth District (PDF 1.68MB) Should the Fed Target the CPI? (PDF 160K) The Name is Bond--Indexed Bond (PDF 172K) What's Up Down on the Farm? (PDF 147K)		April Assessing the Generational Gap in Future Living Standards through Generational Accounting (PDF 564K) Insecurity about Social Security (PDF 154K) Rush-Hour Horrors: How Economics Tackles Congestion (PDF 255K) Are District Banks Losing Their Profit Edge? (PDF 209K)		July What Price Convenience? The ATM Surcharge Debate (PDF 435K) Labor Market Dynamics and Inflation. (PDF 75K) Critiquing the CPI (PDF 172K) Permits, Contracts, Closings: Real Estate in the Eighth District (PDF 420K)		October A Burden to America? Immigration and the Economy (PDF 881K) A Look Back--and Forward (PDF 155K) Yielding Clues About Recessions: The Yield Curve as a Forecasting Tool (PDF 248K) Banks Go Shopping for Customers (PDF 274K)
1996 ( 3 Issues)		Return to top
April Price Stability and the Payments System: Not-So-Strange Bedfellows (PDF 100K) Will That Be Cash, Check, Charge or Smart Card? (PDF 1.05MB) Investment Improvement: Adding Duration to the Toolbox (PDF 221K) District Automotive Sector Flourishing (PDF 225K)		July How Impartial is the Fed's Review of Bank Mergers? (PDF 209K) Tax Man, Heal Thyself (PDF 1.08MB) Learning the Lessons of History: The Federal Reserve and the Payments System (PDF 442K) Loan Quality in the Eighth District: Worth A Closer Look (PDF 488K)		October Is the Fed Out of Touch? (PDF 217K) Shaking the Third Rail: Reforming Social Security (PDF 966K) A Recipe for Monetary Policy Credibility (PDF 885K) District Jobs: Have They Been Gearing Up? (PDF 463K)