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Centre for Economic Policy Research [.pdf]
http://www.cepr.org/
The London-based Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is a European economics research organization with uniquely wide-ranging scope and activities including development of initiatives with the producers, consumers, and sponsors of research. The CEPR Website offers a searchable database of its publications (discussion papers, policy papers, reports and books, the CEPR Bulletin, and newsletter), information on its various research projects, data links (industrial, international trade, macroeconomics, labor, public policy), links to other European financial research organizations, and more. The text of the Bulletin and newsletter may be downloaded for free, while the other papers can be downloaded or ordered via subscription. The Hot Topics page covers issues related to the IMF, WTO, and EMU, economic growth and fluctuations in the European Union, regulation of network industries in Europe, etc. Meeting announcements, contact information for researchers, and a press page are also featured. Researchers and librarians, in particular, might wish to register a profile (free) allowing for online meeting registration, custom start pages, and email subscriptions. This site is worth a look by anyone interested in international economic policy. [HCS]
[Back to Contents]The New Basel Accord -- Bank of International Settlements (BIS) [.pdf]
http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbsca.htm
Released on January 16, 2001, the New Basel Capital Accord, from BIS's Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, is a revision of the 1988 Accord. The New Basel Accord offers a flexible framework for capital adequacy which should be able to accommodate changes in the financial system. According to Chairman of the Basel Committee William J. McDonough, "the new framework is intended to align regulatory capital requirements more closely with underlying risks, and to provide banks and their supervisors with several options for the assessment of capital adequacy." The Website for the Accord includes the text of the document itself, as well as a host of accompanying resources such as a press release, explanatory note, and seven supporting documents. The Committee is seeking comments from interested parties until May 31, 2001 and plans to publish the final version of the Accord at the end of 2001, to be implemented in 2004. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Center for the Implementation of Public Policies promoting Equity and Growth
http://www.cippec.org/home_english.htm
The Center for the Implementation of Public Policies promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) is a not-for-profit think tank that studies public policies that will affect equity and growth in Latin America, with special emphasis on Argentina. According to the CIPPEC Website, its mission is to "promote the rigorous analysis, strategic design and effective implementation of public policies that promote equity and growth." The site explains the think tank's ideas of policy, including policies for education, fiscal growth, health care, and public administration reform. For each of these categories, CIPPEC briefly introduces its philosophy and staff, and describes its programs in detail. Information on CIPPEC itself is also offered on this site. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Business Combinations Project Summary
http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/fasb/project/buscomsumm.html
The staff of the Financial Accounting Standards Board presents its project summary for the Business Combinations Project. The project was founded in August 1996 in order to offer solutions to improve the "transparency of the accounting for business combinations." The Business Combinations's main objective was to consider goodwill and purchased intangible assets as they related to accounting in business combinations. Although the summary itself is quite short, it links to a rich collection of supporting projects and documents including working papers, related projects, and Websites. [EM]
[Back to Contents]"Driven to Spend: The Impact of Sprawl on Household Transportation Expenses" [.pdf]
http://www.transact.org/Reports/driven/default.htm
"Driven to Spend" is a new report from the Surface Transportation Policy Project and Center for Neighborhood Technology, which considers the economic impact of transportation in highly sprawling areas. According to this 44-page report, American families that do live in areas of urban sprawl may pay thousands of dollars more per year for transportation than people who live in more dense populations. The study found that Americans pay an astounding eighteen cents out of every dollar for transportation, more than what they spend on health care, education, or food. Along with the complete report, both in HTML and .pdf formats, the site also contains an executive summary and press release. Fact-sheets on transportation costs of nearly 30 US metro regions are also included, providing information on regional transportation expenditures, household expenditures, and transportation choices. This eye-opening report will urge readers to think about their own transportation choices. [EM]
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World Bank Experts Guide
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/wbexperts/
Created with reporters and editors in mind, the World Bank Experts Guide provides World Bank experts that are available to comment on to the media on a wide variety of topics. The list of experts may be viewed by name of expert or by subject. Each expert is given his or her own Webpage, which includes a short biography, expertise, and languages spoken, along with a photograph and related links. For ease of use, several "hot topics" are highlighted including AIDS/HIV and debt relief. This site gives an awe-inspiring look at the variety of experts working for the World Bank. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Current Business-related Publications about the Pittsburgh Region
http://www.library.cmu.edu/bySubject/Business/LRP/PghReg.html
An excellent example of an online guide to local business resources, Current Business-related Publications about the Pittsburgh Region is the brainchild of Adele Barsh, a Business and Economics Librarian at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the introduction, the guide includes over 150 publications from over 60 resources including city, county, and state agencies as well as private and nonprofit organizations. All documents are current and include "reports and regional analysis, statistical data, budgets, and directories." Publications may be browsed in four ways, by subject, publishing agency, name of publication, or geographic focus. While not all readers will be interested in Pittsburgh-related publications, this guide is an impressive example of a successful regional directory. [EM]
[Back to Contents]InvestorGuide.com
http://www.investorguide.com/
InvestorGuide, first reviewed in the May 21, 1998 Scout Report for Business and Economics, has gotten a facelift. Originally the site was primarily a links page of personal finance and investment; now InvestorGuide has expanded into a full service investment portal. The new site features a news wire of investment news, stemming from reputable sources such as CNNfn, Washington Post, Forbes, and MSNBC. Users may sign up for either a daily or weekly newsletter, along with "Tomments and Tommentary," the comments and commentary of InvestorGuide CEO Tom Murcko. The site tour is highly recommended. Although it only takes a few minutes to complete, it gives a thorough introduction to this large Website. [EM]
[Back to Contents]SmallBusiness.com
http://www.smallbusiness.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/sbsite.woa
SmallBusiness.com is a "knowledge sharing community and human-powered search tool" for those running and serving small businesses. The SmallBusiness.com advice network is based on the knowledge management systems of large businesses, meaning that they expect community members to informally share their successes and failures. Users are encouraged to ask for advice on a variety of business topics. Advisors answer questions, and those looking for advice rate the advisor's advice. Free registration to the site allows for easier knowledge sharing. While the idea behind SmallBusiness.com is a noble one, it's somewhat disquieting to see that advisors do not need any kind of certification and are not even required to give much information about themselves. [EM]
[Back to Contents]"Reserve Bank Boards in 2001" [.pdf]
http://www.fmcenter.org/pdf/2001RBDirs.pdf
The Financial Market Center offers its fifth annual analysis of the new members of the Federal Reserve Bank Board directors. Just nine pages in length, this document is a well-written, easy-to-understand introduction to the people on the Board. After explaining the structure of the FRB, including the number of members, length of term, and whom the members represent, "Reserve Bank Boards in 2001" offers an information-rich snapshot for each of new public directorships. The site also includes a list of the public directors of the regional Federal Reserve Banks as well as additional information to help readers understand more about the Fed. [EM]
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B-SPAN [RealPlayer]
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/B-SPAN/
This new "Webcasting station" from the World Bank lets users anywhere tune in to the numerous seminars, workshops, and conferences the Bank holds in its Washington headquarters. At present, there are only a few archived interviews and presentations, but in the future, the site will feature numerous live broadcasts as well as a virtual library of video segments on development and poverty issues. [MD]
[Back to Contents]Intelligent Investing -- Philadelphia Inquirer
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/10/15/intelligent/
Intelligent Investing is a special section from the Philadelphia Inquirer. The site includes a large collection of annotated articles from the newspaper's pages. Covering an extensive range of topics dealing with finance and business, the articles provide background, news, and advice on such subjects as retirement funds, the allure of technology stocks, and mutual funds. The site also includes information on related conferences and workshops in the Philadelphia area. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Center for a New American Dream
http://www.newdream.org/main/index.html
The Center for a New American Dream is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping individuals and institutions "reduce and shift consumption to enhance our quality of life and protect the environment." The site highlights the Center's successful campaigns including Kids and Commercialism, which explains the ways that advertisers and marketers target children in order get them to pressure their parents into buying a range of products and services. Declare Your Independence from Junk Mail explores the reasons why junk mail hurts the environment, gives an easy online form that allows users to remove themselves from mailing lists, and provides information and facts on junk mail. The site also describes the center's philosophy in detail, explaining how a variety of elements, including commercial culture, community, work, money, and transportation, all fit together to help reduce consumption. [EM]
[Back to Contents]The MouseDriver Insider Collection
http://www.inc.com/articles/details/0,,ART21730_CNT56,00.html
Can't get enough of dotcom start-up culture? Inc.com offers the collected works of two online entrepreneurs, Kyle Harrison and John Lusk, who have documented their start-up adventures in a newsletter MouseDriver Insider. MouseDrivers are computer mice shaped like the driver golf club heads. According to Inc.com, the newsletter has gathered a "surprisingly influential readership." The first newsletters span from September 3, 1999 to December 11, 2000 and offer a peak into the successes and failures of starting a business. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Find-It! Consumer
http://finditconsumer.wa.gov/
From the Washington State Library, Find-It! Consumer provides links to and information about over 100 consumer safety and protection Websites. Annotated Websites concerning Washington State or the entire United States may be searched by keyword or browsed by topic. The librarians have included a wonderful section on Top Searches, which gives guides to information and resources on a broad range of subjects, from insecticide in food to choosing an Internet service provider. Up-to-date recalls and new consumer information are also highlighted. [EM]
[Back to Contents]On the Rail
http://www.ontherail.com/
On the Rail offers a fascinating and candid look at the food services industry. The site provides a space for food professionals to share their successes and war stories. In the Weeds is a bulletin board that allows users to discusses such restaurant-related issues such as menu description, the possibilities of online reservations, and tipping policies. Be sure to check out the Soup Opera, a fictional series about life in a fashionable restaurant. [EM]
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http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2000/index.html
Estimating the Value and Interest Rate Risk of Interest-Bearing Transactions Deposits
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2000/200053/200053abs.html
Do the Rich Save More?
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2000/200052/200052abs.htmlFederal Reserve System: [.pdf]
FRB Chicago Working Papers
http://research.frbchi.org/WPbyYear/WP2000.html
Impact of Independent Directors and the Regulatory Environment on Bank Merger Prices: Evidence from Takeover Activity in the 1990s
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-31.html
Equilibrium Lending Mechanism and Aggregate Activity
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-30.html
What are the Short-Run Effects of Increasing Labor Market Flexibility?
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-29.html
Supplier Relationships and Small Business Use of Trade Credit
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-28.html
Recent Evidence on the Relationship Between Unemployment and Wage Growth
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-27.html
Data revisions and the identification of monetary policy shocks
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-26.html
What Can Account for Fluctuations in the Terms of Trade?
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-25.html
The Pitfalls in Inferring Risk from Financial Market Data
http://research.frbchi.org/WorkingPapers/A_WP-2000-24.htmlFRB Kansas City Research Working Papers
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00.htm
The Effect of Old-Age Insurance on Male Retirement: Evidence from Historical Cross-Country Data
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00-09.htm
Government Budgetary Policies, Economic Growth, and Currency Substitution in a Small Open Economy
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00-08.htm
Estimation of Adjustment Costs in a Model of State-Dependent Pricing
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00-07.htm
Risk Sharing and Industrial Specialization: Regional and International Evidence
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00-06.htm
Can out-of-Sample Forecast Comparisons Help Prevent Overfitting?
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00-05.htm
Consumption and Aggregate Constraints: Evidence from US States and Canadian Provinces
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/reswkpap/rwp00-04.htmFRB Minneapolis Staff Reports
http://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/sr/
Public Trust and Government Betrayal
http://research.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/sr/sr283.htmlFRB San Francisco Working Papers
http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/workingp/index.html
Optimal Simple Targeting Rules for Small Open Economies
http://www.frbsf.org/econrsrch/workingp/2000/wp00-20.pdfFRB St. Louis
http://www.stls.frb.org/research/wp/
The Relationship Between the Federal Funds Rate and the Fed's Federal Funds Rate Target: Is It Open Market or Open Mouth Operations?
http://www.stls.frb.org/research/wp/99-022.html
Risk-Adjusted, Ex Ante, Optimal, Technical Trading Rules in Equity Markets
http://www.stls.frb.org/research/wp/99-015.html
Intraday Technical Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market
http://www.stls.frb.org/research/wp/99-016.html
Risk and Return: Some New Evidence
http://www.stls.frb.org/research/wp/2001-001.html
Regime Switching and Monetary Policy Measurement
http://www.stls.frb.org/research/wp/2001-002.htmlOther Institutions:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Working Papers [.pdf]
http://www.oecd.org/eco/wp/onlinewp.htm#2001
Central Control of Regional Budgets: Theory with Applications to Russia
http://www.oecd.org/eco/wp/wp275.pdfBank of International Settlements Working Papers [.pdf]
http://www.bis.org/publ/pub_list.htm#WP
Information Flows During the Asian Crisis: Evidence from Closed-end Funds
http://www.bis.org/publ/work97.htmInternational Monetary Fund Working Papers [.pdf]
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/wp1_sp.cfm?s_year=2000&e_year=2000&brtype=default
Effects of Volatile Asset Prices on Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Data
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00191.pdf
Emerging Market Spreads-Then Versus Now
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00190.pdf
To "B" or not to "B" -- A welfare Analysis of Breaking Up Monopolies in an Endogenous Growth Model
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00189.pdf
Endogenous Money Supply and Money Demand
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00188.pdf
Poverty, Inequality, and Unethical Behavior of the Strong
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2000/wp00187.pdfWharton Financial Institutions Center Working Papers
http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/wfic/papers/00.html
Banking and Markets
http://fic.wharton.upenn.edu/fic/wfic/papers/00/p0044.htmlStockholm School of Economics Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance [.pdf]
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/
Reputation in Team Production
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/abs/hastef0425.htm
Subordinates as Threats to Leaders
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/abs/hastef0424.htm
On the Causality between GDP and Health Care Expenditure in Augmented Slow Growth Model
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/abs/hastef0423.htm
Income Security Programs and Retirement in Sweden
http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/abs/hastef0422.htmNational Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/new.html#latest
Does Firm-specific Information in Stock Prices Guide Capital Allocation?
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8093
The Stock Market's Reaction to Unemployment News: Why Bad News is Usually Good for Stocks
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8092
Annuity Values in Defined Contribution Retirement Systems: The Case of Singapore and Australia
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8091
Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Injury, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8090
The Overlooked Corporate Finance Problems of a Microsoft Breakup
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8089
Intermediaries in Entrepot Trade: Hong Kong Re-Exports of Chinese Goods
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8088
Competition, Monopoly, and Aftermarkets
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8086
The Minimum Inflation Rate for Euroland
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8085
A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing: U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944
http://papers.nber.org/papers/H0132
[Back to Contents]Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB BOG)
Federal Reserve Bulletin
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/default.htm
January 2001
Federal Reserve Bulletin is a monthly publication written and compiled by staff members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, reporting and analyzing economic developments, data, and bank regulatory issues. The January 2001 issue of this publication contains the article "Retail Fees of Depository Institutions, 1994-99." [EM]Federal Reserve System:
FRB Boston
Bank Notes
http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/banknote/bn2001/bn0101.htm
January 2001
Bank Notes, a monthly publication from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, reports on a compendium of banking-related news including bank mergers and acquisitions in New England during the past month. [EM]FRB Chicago
Chicago FedLetter
http://www.frbchi.org/pubs-speech/publications/periodicals/chilet/cfljan2001_161.pdf
January 2001
"A retrospective on the Asian Crisis of 1997: Was it foreseen?" is the main article in the January 2001 issue of the Chicago FedLetter.FRB Cleveland
Economic Trends
http://www.clev.frb.org/research/Et2001/0101/index.htm
January 2001
The January 2001 issue of Economic Trends includes analysis on long-term federal budget projections and defined contribution pension plans. [EM]FRB Dallas
Houston Business
http://www.dallasfed.org/htm/pubs/pdfs/houston/hb97_12.pdf
January 2001
The current issue of FRB Dallas's Houston Business looks at horizontal drilling and three-dimensional seismology -- two technologies that have greatly helped to reduce the cost of discovering oil in Texas. [EM]FRB Kansas City
Financial Industry Perspectives
http://www.frbkc.org/publicat/fip/fipmain.htm
2000
Financial Industry Perspectives is an annual collection of articles from the Supervision and Risk Management Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. This year's articles include the topics of Internet banking, rural development, and enhancing the value of community banks. [EM]FRB St. Louis
National Economic Trends
http://www.stls.frb.org/docs/publications/net/netpub.pdf
January 2001
The lead article in the January 2001 edition of National Economic Trends examines the results of Census 2000, with special interest in the 13.2 percent increase in population in the United States. [EM]United States International Trade Commission
International Economic Review
ftp://ftp.usitc.gov/pub/reports/ier/PUB3379.PDF
October/November/December 2000
The current issue of International Economic Review contains the following articles "U.S. Trade with the Beneficiaries of the Andean Trade Preference Act," "New EU Agreements With African Countries Liberalize Two-way Trade," and "Rising U.S. Wage Inequality: Is International Trade the Cause?" [EM]Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Banking Review
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/banking/2000dec/index.html
Volume 13, Number 2
The latest issue of Banking Review contains three articles: "A Historical Perspective on Deposit Insurance Coverage," "The Cost of the Savings and Loan Crisis: Truth and Consequences," and "Recent Developments Affecting Depository Institutions." [EM]International Monetary Fund
Finance and Development
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/12/index.htm
December 2000
A quarterly publication of the IMF, Finance and Development has devoted its December 2000 issue to the topic "How Can We Help the Poor." [EM]
[Back to Contents]BakerBooks -- Harvard Business School
http://www.library.hbs.edu/bakerbooks/
The latest issues of New Books at Baker Library and New Books from HBS Press are now available from Harvard University's BakerBooks site. These updates are posted by the fifteenth of each month and cover new additions for the preceding month. [EM]National Bureau of Economic Research Books
http://www.nber.org/books.html
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) presents its collection of books published in 2000, complete with tables of contents and ordering information. The site also offers chapters from books-in-progress. [EM]Econbase -- Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.com/inca/homepage/sae/econbase/
The abstracts, tables of contents, and in some cases full-text, for over 60 journals are now available online, including the following: Journal of Financial Economics (Vol 59, No 3), Journal of Economics and Business (Vol 52, No 6), International Review of Financial Analysis (Vol 9, No 3), Journal of International Economics (Vol 54, No 1), and Mathematical Social Sciences (Vol 41, No 2). [EM]
[Back to Contents]Inomics Conference Calls:
Email Conference Alert
http://www.inomics.com/query/alert
Conference Search
http://www.inomics.com/query/conf_search
The economics research service Inomics (described in the June 18, 1998 Scout Report for Business & Economics) includes a conference alert service. Interested parties may specify their interests and receive email notifications of up-coming events, or they may search the Inomics conference database by date, geographic location, or JEL classification. [EM]Conferences with Econometric Interest
http://www.econ.vu.nl/econometriclinks/#conferences
The Royal Economics Society's Econometrics Journal site lists conferences in econometrics at this Econometric Links section. [EM]35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association
http://www.econ.queensu.ca/cea2001/
May 31, 2001-June 3, 2001
McGill University, Montreal, QuebecFirst Nordic Econometric Meeting
http://www.danskokonometriskselskab.dk/nordic_econometric_meeting.html
May 25-27, 2001
Sandbjerg, Denmark
[Back to Contents]Job Openings from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Job Openings in Economics
http://jobs.chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/sscience/econ/links.htm
Job Openings in Business and Management
http://jobs.chronicle.com/free/jobs/faculty/professional/business/links.htmJob Openings for Economists (JOE)
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/joe/joe/Inomics: Job Openings for Economists
http://www.inomics.com/query/job_search
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State Personal Income -- Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/newsrel/spi0101.htm
The third quarter 2000 statistics for state personal income show that North Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, and Kansas -- all Plains states -- had the fastest growth in personal income in the country. This is due mainly to the fact that "substantial increases in farm proprietors' income that were due to the timing of specially authorized federal farm subsidy payments, boosted personal income growth in these five states." [EM]
[Back to Contents]The Livingston Survey -- FRB Philadelphia
http://www.phil.frb.org/files/liv/livdec00.pdf
According to this survey, which is conducted twice each year, economic forecasters predict that the US economy will slow down "significantly" in the next two years. [EM]
[Back to Contents]Consumer Price Index -- Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.toc.htm
In December 2000, the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) fell 0.1 percent. However, in comparison to December 1999, the CPI-U is 3.4 percent higher. [EM]
[Back to Contents]United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
2001 Agency Reports/ Schedule
http://www.usda.gov/news/calindex.htm
USDA summarizes its report releases from various sources (the Economic Research Service, the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board) at this calendar site. Notable data for January 2001 include the Peanut Stocks and Processing report and the weekly Dairy Products Prices. [EM]
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Greenspan Backs Bush's Tax Cuts
1) Outlook for the federal budget and implications for fiscal policy
http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Testimony/2001/20010125.htm
2) "Greenspan eyes tax cuts" -- CNN
http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2001/01/25/economy/greenspan/
3) "Greenspan to back tax cuts Fed chief 'apt to change' stance on how best to use surplus" -- USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010125/3015981s.htm
4) "Bush Tax Cut Faces Spending Pressures" -- Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43210-2001Jan24.html
5) "Taxpayers finally get a friend in W." -- Chicago Sun Times
http://www.suntimes.com/output/commentary/edits23.html
6) The Bush tax agenda -- Townhall.com
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jackkemp/jk20010124.shtml
7) GetExuberant.com
http://www.getexuberant.com/
This morning in an address before the US Senate's Committee on the Budget, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Board of Governors Alan Greenspan announced that the rising estimates of US budget surpluses could allow space for tax reduction plans. Greenspan did not actually endorse President Bush's $1.6 trillion, ten-year tax cut plan, explaining that he did not think it would be appropriate for him to comment on "political decisions." Nonetheless, he was agreeable to some kind of tax reduction plan. Greenspan is a strong advocate of using budget surpluses to pay down national debt, but he said government estimates of the national surplus would allow for both debt relief as well as a tax cut for Americans. Greenspan, however, does not believe that tax cuts should be used as a weapon against the possibility of a recession. "I would not perceive of employing tax cuts to, in the sense, get in front of weakening forces which could eventually lead to a recession because history tells us it doesn't work"; instead monetary policy is a proven effective measure.
The transcript for Alan Greenspan's testimony before the Committee on the Budget (1) is provided by the Federal Reserve Board Website. This brief article from CNN (2) concisely summarizes Greenspan's speech. Before the actual meeting this morning, USA Today(3) predicted that Greenspan would support the new president's tax cuts. The Washington Post(4) reports that Bush's large tax reduction plan is much too ambitious and examines the ways in which the plan may fail. This opinion piece from the Chicago Sun Times(5) advocates for Bush's tax cut plans. Jack Kemp's (6) recent column on Bush's tax agenda also agrees with the president and wonders how long it will take to for the measures to be put in place. The Website for the unofficial Alan Greenspan fan club (7) offers news and information about Greenspan and the Fed. [EM]
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