United States
Speech by Robert Parry of the San Francisco Fed
SPEECH - Speech by President and CEO Robert T. Parry of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to the UC Berkeley 24th Annual Real Estate and Economics Symposium, 19 November.
Parry: Q4 fall off in econ likely sharper than Q3
US - The downturn in high-tech business has been particularly rough for the San Francisco Bay area, where unemployment and commercial vacancies have been rapidly on the rise, said San Francisco Federal Reserve President Robert Parry Monday 19 November.
Federal Reserve Bulletin - November 2001
RESEARCH - The Economic Performance of Small Banks, 1985-2000 by William F. Bassett and Thomas F. Brady.
Bank of Canada Review Autumn 2001
RESEARCH - Factors Affecting Regional Economic Performance in Canadaby Brigid Brady and Farid Novin. Short summary.
Speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
SPEECH - Remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 13 November.
IMF mulls approach on terrorist funding
USA - Pressure from the US to act on terrorist financing has generated a debate within the International Monetary Fund on how it should respond.
Speech by Michael Moskow, President, Chicago Fed
SPEECH - Speech by Michael H. Moskow, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago at the Bankers' Association for Finance and Trade, 11th Annual Conference on International Trade and Finance, Hotel InterContinental, Chicago, Illinois, 25 October.
Banks in the US tighten lending standards
US - Reflecting the shaky US economy, banks have been tightening lending standards even as demand for loans continues to drop, according to the Federal Reserve's latest survey of loan officers.
Bank of Canada Review Autumn 2001
RESEARCH - Conference Summary: Revisiting the Case for Flexible Exchange Ratesby Larry Schembri. Short summary.
Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF
SPEECH - Statement by IMF Managing Director, Horst Kohler, given at the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, Doha, 10 November.
O'Neill: IMF forecast "off by a lot"
US - Responding to the drastically revised growth forecasts for the US in 2002 US Treasury secretary disagreed saying the forecast was "off by a lot".
Speech by Anthony Santomero of Philadelphia Fed
SPEECH - Remarks by President Santomero of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia before the Frontiers in Services Conference, Bethesda, MD, 26 October.
Speech by Roger Ferguson of the Federal Reserve
SPEECH - Remarks by Federal Reserve Board Vice Chairman Roger W. Ferguson, Jr at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants National Conference on Banks and Savings Institutions, Washington, D.C., 8 November.
Fed's Ferguson - US economy resilient
US - The U.S. economy appears to be shaking off the devastating impact of the 11 September attacks, says a key member of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Fed's Santomero - Bank regulation may be a benefit
US - In response to the rhetorical question "does bank regulation help bank customers?" Anthony Santomero, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, said "Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. It all depends."
Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF
SPEECH - Address by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, St. Michael, Barbados, 5 November.
Bank of Canada Review Autumn 2001
RESEARCH - Predictability of Average Inflation over Long Time Horizons by Allan Crawford. Short summary.
Alan Greenspan: The accidental economist
US - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, perhaps the world's best-known and revered economist, on Tuesday said his choice of profession was a matter of chance.
Speech by John Odling-Smee of the IMF
SPEECH - Speech by John Odling-Smee, Director, European II Department, IMF, given at the Belarusian Academy of Management, Minsk, 6 November.
Academics: Trust in Greenspan led to stock crash
ARTICLE - Investor confidence in the 'superhuman' ability of Fed chairman Alan Greenspan to shelter the stock market contributed to its over-valuation and eventual crash, economists argued in an academic paper out this week.
IMF and World Bank joint statement
STATEMENT - IMF and World Bank Heads Call for a New Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations at Doha, Koehler and Wolfensohn urge Ministers to put developing countries at the center of the agenda.
Federal Open Market Committee - Minutes
MINUTES - Minutes of the 2 October meeting. A meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee was held in the offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday 2 October 2001, at 9:00 a.m.
FOMC: 'Mild and short contraction' of US econ seen
US - Federal Reserve policymakers expect a "relatively mild and short" U.S. recession, but they're inclined to keep cutting interest rates to banish the prospect of a nastier downturn, minutes of their recent policy meetings suggest.
Federal Reserve cuts rates to lowest since 1961
UNITED STATES - Struggling to reverse the slide in the U.S. economy, or at least to slow it, the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates on Tuesday by half a percentage point, to 2 percent, the lowest level since the 1960s.