Forefront Archives
Vol. 1, No. 3
- Fall 2010
- Download the full print version. (PDF)
- President’s Message
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- The economic importance of being educated. Read more (PDF)
- Reader Comments
- Responses to recent articles on the CRA and small business lending. Read more (PDF)
- Battling the Next Phase of the Housing Crisis
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- A new volume published by the Federal Reserve sheds light on the escalating problem with real-estate-owned, or REO, properties. Read more (PDF)
- Stop Investing in Stadiums...Start Investing in Kids
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- Interview with Art Rolnick on early childhood education. Read more (PDF)
- Mortgage Counseling, Plain Language, and Financial Education: What Works?
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- Highlights from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s 2010 Policy Summit. Read more (PDF)
- Five Big Ideas about Consumer Finance Education
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- Observations from the Federal Reserve’s Jeanne Hogarth. Read more (PDF)
- Overextended, Underinvested: The Debt Overhang Problem
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- High debt burdens can restrain business spending and investment through several channels. This article explains how economists have taken a potentially important step forward in understanding the "debt overhang" channel. Read more (PDF)
- Interview with Laurence Meyer
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- Former Federal Reserve governor on the state of macroeconomics. Read more (PDF)
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
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- Book Review. Read more (PDF)