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| Banking and Policy Issues Magazine
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December 2002
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Top of the Ninth
Gary Stern discusses the importance of economic literacy
in understanding public policy issues.
Interview with Anne O. Krueger
The first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund
discusses currency boards, the
resilient world economy and other issues. |
Financial Literacy Education: A Potential Tool
for Reducing Predatory Lending? A review of studies on the effectiveness
of financial literacy training and whether such training results in responsible
financial decision making by consumers.
Trading Places
Why do nations trade and where do industries locate?
Lender of More Than Last Resort
Recalling Section 13(b) and the years when the Federal Reserve banks opened
their discount windows to district businesses in times of economic stress.
Exchange Roller Coasters
The strong dollar-weak dollar debate and the vagaries of currency exchange
rate regimes.
Guest Editorial
Preston Miller suggests that long-term federal budget problems, exacerbated
by the needs of an aging population, might be alleviated by a new approach
to funding benefits received by that same aging population.
Book Reviews
Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
Five Days in London: May 1940
Remembering When ...
In 1917 the Minneapolis Fed issued a call to district farmers to save
their seed corn following a disastrous growing season.
Minneapolis Fed Economists' Journal Editors
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Annual Report
