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April 2013 Issue

• Low Interest Rates Have Yet To Spur Job Recovery
  (One letter, last update: 5/02/13)

January 2013 Issue

• Why Are Corporations Holding So Much Cash?
  (Four letters, last update: 2/15/13)
  

October 2012 Issue

• Why Doesn't the U.S. Return to the Gold Standard so that the Fed Can't "Create Money Out of Thin Air"?
  (One letter, last update: 11/7/12)

July 2012 Issue

• Is the Large and Persistent U.S. Trade Deficit a Concern?
  (One letter, last update: 8/22/12)

January 2012 Issue

• Don't Expect Consumer Spending To Be the Engine of Economic Growth It Once Was
  (One letter, last update: 2/22/13)
• President's Message: The Economic Recovery—America's Investment Problem
  (One letter, last update: 1/31/12)

October 2000 Issue

• Is Federal Home Loan Bank Funding A Risky Business For The FDIC?
  (Editor's note: The letter writer came across this 11-year-old article in doing research on a related topic. He was prompted to comment on the article because he believes it contains food for thought for today's policymakers.)

October 2011 Issue

• Why Health Care Matters and the Current Debt Does Not
  (One letter, last update: 10/17/12)
• Is Shadow Banking Really Banking?
  (One letter, last update: 10/26/11)
  

July 2011 Issue

• The Foreclosure Crisis in 2008: Predatory Lending or Household Overreaching?
  (One letter, last update: 9/14/11)
• The Mismatch between Job Openings and Job Seekers
  (One letter, last update: 8/12/11)
• Commodity Price Gains: Speculation vs. Fundamentals
  (Two letters, last update: 3/1/12)

April 2011 Issue

• Are Small Businesses the Biggest Producers of Jobs?
  (One letter, last update: 5/31/11)

January 2011 Issue

• A Closer Look: Assistance Programs in the Wake of the Crisis
  (One letter, last update: 4/6/11)

July 2010 Issue

• A Bleak 30 Years for Black Men: Economic Progress Was Slim in Urban America
  (One letter, last update: 9/28/10)
• Unconventional Oil Production: Stuck in a Rock and a Hard Place
  (Three letters, last update: 8/31/10)

January 2010 Issue

• Quantitative Easing—Uncharted Waters for Monetary Policy
  (One letter, last update: 7/30/10)
• Inflation May Be the Next Dragon To Slay
  (One letter, last update: 2/2/10)

January 2009 Issue

• Deficits, Debt and Looming Disaster
  (Three letters, last update: 2/12/09)

October 2008 Issue

• U.S. Income Inequality: It's Not So Bad
  (Three letters, last update: 10/28/08)

July 2008 Issue

• Ethanol: Economic Gain or Drain?
  (One letter, last update: 7/15/08)

October 2007 Issue

• Trading Barbs: A Primer on the Globalization Debate
  (One letter, last update: 1/2/08)

July 2007 Issue

• As Boomers Slow Down, So Might the Economy
  (One letter, last update: 7/10/07)

• Why Do Gasoline Prices React to Things that Have Not Happened?
  (Two letters, last update: 9/24/07)

October 2006 Issue

• Adding Up the Economic Effects of Immigration
  (One letter, last update: 11/7/06)

July 2006 Issue

• Slowdown in Housing Won't Shut Down Economic Growth
  (One letter, last update: 9/29/06)

July 2005 Issue

• Cash-Out Refinancing: Check It Out Carefully
  (One letter, last update: 8/4/05)

April 2005 Issue

• So Much for That Merit Raise: The Link between Wages and Appearance
  (Two letters, last update: 6/27/05)
• The Trickle-Down Effect of Basel II
  (One letter, last update: 2/2/07)

July 2004 Issue

• Fear of Hell Might Fire Up the Economy
  (Five letters, last update: 3/23/05)
• Light Rail: Boon or Boondoggle?
  (Nine letters, last update: 8/22/06)

April 2004 Issue

• Tough Lesson: More Money Doesn’t Help Schools; Accountability Does
  (Two letters, last update: 4/13/06)