2006 News Releases

January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November

November

• Natural Gas Prices: How Big an Impact on the Economy? — Nov. 2

• St. Louis Fed's Review: Rising Natural Gas Prices and Real Economic Activity; The Transition to Electronic Communications Networks in the Secondary Treasury Market; What Are the Odds? Option-Based Forecasts of FOMC Target Changes; Money and Monetary Policy for the Twenty-First Century; Chinese Growth: A Source of U.S. Export Opportunities — Nov. 2

October

• St. Louis Fed Introduces New Online Tool for Prospective Bank Mergers and Acquisitions — Oct. 20

• Media Advisory: The Rise of Personal Bankruptcy — Oct. 16
  
  
• Media Advisory: "Frontiers in Monetary Policy," the St. Louis Fed's 31st Annual Economic Policy Conference — Oct. 12
  
  
• Electricity: The Next Looming Energy Crisis? — Oct. 3
  
  
• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Electricity—The Next Energy Jolt?; Adding Up the Economic Effects of Immigration; Income Inequality Predicts the Timing of Predatory Lending Laws; Community Profile: Columbia, Mo. — Oct. 3

September

• Media Advisory: Teach Children To Save Day — Sept. 18
  
  
• What Happens to Banks When House Prices Fall? — Sept. 5
  
  
• St. Louis Fed's Review: What Happens to Banks When House Prices Fall?; Recent Trends in Homeownership; Do Inflation Targeters Outperform Non-targeters?; A Close Look at Model-Dependent Monetary Policy Design — Sept. 5

August

• Walls Appointed to St. Louis Fed's Little Rock Branch Board — Aug. 31
  
  
• St. Louis Fed Promotes Guidolin, Owyang and Pakko — Aug. 16
  
  
• Huchingson Named to St. Louis Fed's Real Estate Council — Aug. 16

July

• July Beige Book Sound Clips To Be Available — July 25
  
  
• Media Advisory: "When Businesses Look for a Location," an analysis of how companies choose neighborhoods in which to expand or relocate. — July 11
  
  
• St. Louis Fed’s Review: Federal Credit and Insurance Programs — July 7
  

June

• Increasing Household Assets Will Likely Not Compensate for Low U.S. Saving Rate: St. Louis Fed Analysis — June 30
  
  
• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Wealth Gains Don't Offset Decline in Saving; Inflation's Economic Cost: How Large? How Certain?; Families Digging Deeper in Debt; District Economic Profiles: Memphis and Louisville Zones; Community Profile: Dyersburg, Tenn. — June 30
  
  
• Area Executives Named to St. Louis Fed's District Industry Councils — June 7
  • Little Rock
  • Louisville
  • Memphis
  • St. Louis

May

• St. Louis Fed’s Poole “A Bit Puzzled by Inversion/Recession Talk" — May 18
  
  
• St. Louis Fed Analysis Looks at Why States Adopt Lotteries — May 3
  
  
• St. Louis Fed's Review: The Geography, Economics and Politics of Lottery Adoption; The 1990s Acceleration in Labor Productivity: Causes and Measurement; The Learnability Criterion and Monetary Policy; Inflation Targeting — May 3
  

April

• Media Advisory: Launch of Shawnee Ventures LLC, a new community investment fund to fill the gap between conventional debt financing and pure venture capital. — April 19
  
  
• Media Advisory: Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will proclaim April "Financial Literacy Month." — April 13
  
  
• Marquette High Captures First Place in District Fed Challenge — April 13
  
  
• Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Dangerous? — April 3

• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Dangerous?; Social Changes Lead Married Women into Labor Force; Home Ownership: Movin' On Up; District Overview: Job Trends in Jefferson City, Springfield and Columbia, Mo., and Little Rock, Ark.; Community Profile: Jeffersonville, Ind.— April 3

March

• St. Louis Fed Promotes Nelson to Assistant Vice President — March 8

• Near-Term Forecast for U.S. Housing Sector A “Tough Task”: St. Louis Fed’s Poole — March 8

• College-Educated Workers Migrating to Bigger Metro Areas Rather Than Rural Communities: St. Louis Fed Analysis — March 6

• St. Louis Fed's Review: Human Capital Growth in a Cross Section of U.S. Metropolitan Areas; Entrepreneurship and the Policy Environment; Macroeconomic News and Real Interest Rates; Using Cyclical Regimes of Output Growth to Predict Jobless Recoveries — March 6

February

• Federal Reserve “Transparency” More Than Just “Opening Up,” Says St. Louis Fed’s Poole — Feb. 24

• Inflation Target Could Increase Effectiveness of Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy: St. Louis Fed’s Poole — Feb. 16

• Schroeder Appointed, Taylor Reappointed to St. Louis Fed's Louisville Branch Board — Feb. 6

• St. Louis Fed Announces Changes to Little Rock Branch Board — Feb. 6

January

• St. Louis Fed Announces Changes to Board of Directors — Jan. 25

• Media Advisory: Opportunity Discovery Training — Jan. 23

• Simmons Appointed, Allen and Mathews Reappointed to St. Louis Fed's Memphis Branch Board — Jan. 19

• Media Advisory: Annual Missouri Community Development Conference — Jan. 17

• Media Advisory: St. Louis Fed Employee To Pull Lever To Bring Down Reserve Bank's Garage for Charity — Jan. 9

• As Subprime Mortgages Increase, Lenders Increase Prepayment Penalties and Down Payments: St. Louis Fed Analysis — Jan. 6

• St. Louis Fed's Review: The Evolution of the Subprime Mortgage Market; On the Size and Growth of Government; Are the Causes of Bank Distress Changing? Can Researchers Keep Up?; Replicability, Real-Time Data, and the Science of Economic Research; The Fed's Monetary Policy Rule — Jan. 6