2007 News Releases

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December

• Hubbard Reappointed to St. Louis Fed's Little Rock Branch Board — Dec. 17

November

• Media Advisory: "Mortgage Lending in St. Louis: From HMDA to Home Improvement" — Nov. 30

• Foreign Aid: Who Benefits? — Nov. 1

• St. Louis Fed's Review: The Determinants of Aid in the Post-Cold War Era; The Decline in the U.S. Personal Saving Rate: Is It Real and Is It a Puzzle?; Measuring Commercial Bank Profitability: Proceed with Caution; Open Market Operations and the Federal Funds Rate — Nov. 1

October

• St. Louis Fed Web Site Recognized as One of "Best Free Reference Sites" — Oct. 31

• Media Advisory: "An Impending Influenza Pandemic? What Has Been Learned Since 1918" — Oct. 30

• Thirteen Executives Named to St. Louis Fed's Community Development Advisory Council — Oct. 19

• Media Advisory: "Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty," the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' 32nd Annual Economic Policy Conference — Oct. 10

• St. Louis Fed Analysis: What's the Potential Impact of a Bird Flu Pandemic? — Oct. 2

• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Bird Flu Pandemic; Trading Barbs: A Primer on the Globalization Debate; U.S. Exporters: Rare but Beneficial; Community Profile: Jasper, Ind. — Oct. 2

September

• St. Louis Fed Analysis: What's the Potential Impact of a Bird Flu Pandemic? — Oct. 2

• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Bird Flu Pandemic; Trading Barbs: A Primer on the Globalization Debate; U.S. Exporters: Rare but Beneficial; Community Profile: Jasper, Ind. — Oct. 2

• St. Louis Fed Promotes Hart to Officer — Sept. 28

• St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank To Conduct Search for New President — Sept. 10

• How Effective Has Monetary Policy Been? — Sept. 7
  
  
• St. Louis Fed's Review: The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy; Currency Design in the United States and Abroad; Experiments in Financial Liberalization: The Mexican Banking Sector; How Well Does Employment Predict Output? — Sept. 7
  

July

• St. Louis Fed’s Review: Frontiers in Monetary Policy Research — July 9
  
  
• Regulatory Oversight of Industrial Loan Companies Likely To Increase: St. Louis Fed Analysis — July 5
  
  
• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Major Retailers' Plans To Enter Banking Fuel Debate; Why Do Gasoline Prices React To Things That Have Not Happened?; As Boomers Slow Down, So Might Economy; Community Profile: Conway, Ark. — July 5

June

• Bandyopadhyay Joins St. Louis Fed as Research Officer — June 25

May

• Robert G. Jones Appointed to Federal Advisory Council — May 25
  
  
• Central High Team Takes Top Honors in National “Fed Challenge” — May 22
  
  
• Markets Believe FOMC Has an Implicit Inflation Target: St. Louis Fed Analysis — May 2
  
  
• St. Louis Fed's Review: Do the Markets Believe the Fed Has an Implicit Inflation Target?; Milton Friedman and U.S. Monetary Policy: 1961-2006; Granger Causality and Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory; The GSEs: Where Do We Stand? — May 2
  
  
• Glover Named to St. Louis Fed's Agribusiness Industry Council — May 1

April

• Collierville High School Team Captures Second Place in District "Fed Challenge" — April 26
  
  
• Little Rock's Central High Captures First Place in District "Fed Challenge"— April 26
  
  
• St. Louis Fed Promotes North, Smith and Stierholz — April 19
  
  
• What Effect Would Falling House Prices Have on U.S. Economy? — April 5
  
  
• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: Housing Slump Could Lean Heavily on Economy; Deregulation Helps Small Business Owners Stabilize Their Income; Growth in China and India Spurs Oil Price Increases; Community Profile: Murray, Ky. — April 5
  
  
• Monetary Policy Works Best When Financial Markets Understand the Fed's Objectives: St. Louis Fed President Poole — April 2

March

• Revised Employment Data for Bowling Green Metro Area Show Faster Growth than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Columbia Metro Area Show Faster Growth in Region than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Elizabethtown Metro Area Show Area Grew Faster than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data Show Evansville Metro Area Grew More Slowly than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Fort Smith Metro Area Show Area Grew More Rapidly than National Average — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for the Hot Springs Metro Area — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Jackson Metro Area Show Slower Growth than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Jefferson City Metro Area Shows Growth Was Slower than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Jonesboro Metro Area Show Slight Dip for 2005-2006 — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Little Rock-North Little Rock Metro Area — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Area Show Significantly Higher Growth for 2005-2006 than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Memphis Metro Area Show Greater Growth than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Metro Area Show Slight Dip for 2005-2006 — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Owensboro Metro Area — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for the Pine Bluff Metro Area Show Decline for 2005-2006 — March 9
  
  
• Revised Employment Data for Springfield Metro Area Show Faster Growth than Previous Estimates — March 9
  
  
• Employment Data Revised for St. Louis Metro Area — March 9
  
  
• Revised Data for Texarkana Metro Area Slightly Lowers Estimate of Current Employment Growth — March 9
  
  
• Birds of a Feather: St. Louis Fed Analysis Suggests People of Similar Income and Education Gravitate toward Same Neighborhoods — March 1
  
  
• St. Louis Fed's Review: Trends in Neighborhood-Level Unemployment in the United States: 1980-2000; Stock Market Booms and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century; Data, Data, and Yet More Data; Data Dependence — March 1

February

• St. Louis Fed Promotes Batjer, Carroll, Garrett, Neely and Wheeler — Feb. 2

January

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Announces Changes to Memphis Branch Board — Jan. 31
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Announces Changes to Little Rock Branch Board and Headquarters Board — Jan. 19
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Announces Changes to Louisville Branch Board — Jan. 19
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank Announces Changes to Board of Directors — Jan. 17
  
  
• Effects of Predatory Lending Laws on High-Cost Mortgage Applications Vary by State: St. Louis Fed Analysis — Jan. 8
  
  
• St. Louis Fed's Review: The Varying Effects of Predatory Lending Laws on High-Cost Mortgage Applications; The Rise in Personal Bankruptcies: The Eighth District and Beyond; Regional Business Cycles in Japan; Milton Friedman, 1912-2006: Some Personal Reflections; Understanding the Fed — Jan. 8
  
  
• St. Louis Fed Analysis Suggests Eminent Domain Could Hinder Economic Development — Jan. 2
  
• St. Louis Fed’s The Regional Economist: The Economics of Eminent Domain; Working Hard or Hardly Working? The Evolution of Leisure in the United States; The USDA's National Animal Identification System: Barnyard Boon or Bust?; Community Profile: Tunica, Miss. — Jan. 2