This morning, the New York Fed released a set of interactive maps and charts illuminating school finances in New York and New Jersey.
Just Released: Mapping Changes in School Finances
Distressed Residential Real Estate: Dimensions, Impacts, and Remedies
On October 5, 2012, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Rockefeller Institute of Government co-hosted the conference “Distressed Residential Real Estate: Dimensions, Impacts, and Remedies.”
Historical Echoes: “Happy Days” and Little Green Pieces of Paper
In 1965, Baby-Boomer kids may have been treated to TV footage of a high-stepping chorus line and thousands of people cheering to the background tune “Happy Days Are Here Again.”
Magnifying the Risk of Fire Sales in the Tri‑Party Repo Market
The fragility inherent in the tri-party repo market came to light during the 2008-09 financial crisis.
Improving Access to Refinancing Opportunities for Underwater Mortgages
Since the onset of the housing crisis, a focus of policymakers has been to help underwater homeowners lower their monthly mortgage payments by refinancing, principally through the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP).
Historical Echoes: Andy Warhol and the Art of Money
Money has been a topic of keen interest throughout history.
Common Stock Repurchases during the Financial Crisis
Beverly Hirtle Large bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends to their shareholders well after the onset of the recent financial crisis. Academics, industry analysts, and policymakers have noted that these payments reduced capital at these firms at a time when there was considerable uncertainty about the full extent of losses facing individual banks […]
Do Bank Shocks Affect Aggregate Investment?
Traditionally, we have thought of the fates of specific banks as perhaps symptomatic of problems in the financial market but not as causal determinants of fluctuations in aggregate investment and other real economic activity.
Historical Echoes: Skull Bumps and Economic Behavior
Phrenology (see this amusing four-minute video), popular in the first half of the nineteenth century, was the study of skull shape and contours (believed to indicate the location of more- and less-developed areas of the brain) in order to discern individuals’ abilities and personality traits (called “faculties” in the phrenologists’ jargon).
Just Released: Are Recent College Graduates Finding Good Jobs?
Stories abound about recent college graduates who are struggling to find good jobs in today’s economy, especially with student debt levels rising so quickly.
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