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Reader Comments: A Different Take on Public Pensions
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Our recent focus on the state of public pensions has been met with concern in some quarters. Keith Brainard, the research director for the National Association of Retirement Directors, disagrees in particular with segments in our Drawing Board video, which provides an overview of our public finance package in the spring issue of Forefront. In general, Brainard views the situation of public pensions as less dire than he thinks we presented the issue.
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Some Capital Ideas
- Doug Campbell
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In November 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland invited three scholars of finance and economics to talk about the virtues and pitfalls of bank capital regulation. Their insights helped shed light on how raising capital requirements might make a large difference in the durability of financial institutions-and why even in the day of Dodd-Frank and Basel III, adopting heightened standards remains necessary, even if difficult to achieve.
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How to help manufacturing succeed
- Sandra Pianalto
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Will mounting U.S. debt spark inflation?
- Daniel R Carroll
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Not if the Federal Reserve does its job.
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Job Talk: Chairman Bernanke joins business leaders at Ohio State University
- Doug Campbell
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Jobs—we know where they went, but when will they come back? That was the question before a panel of five business leaders and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when they met at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business on November 30. Even though the recovery officially began in the summer of 2009, unemployment still hovers near 10 percent, and millions of Americans cannot find work. In a discussion moderated by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Sandra Pianalto, the assembled chief executives candidly shared their perspectives on why job creation has been so slow, and what they think would improve the situation.
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