The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has released the September 2009 Edition of EconoTrends, with short articles on:
- July Price Statistics
- The Yield Curve, August 2009
- The Changing Composition of the Fed’s Balance Sheet
- Borrow Less, Owe More: The U.S. Net International Investment Position
- Real GDP: Second-Quarter 2009 Revised Estimate
- Recent Forecasts of Government Debt
- The Incidence and Duration of Unemployment over the Business Cycle
- The Employment Situation, August 2009
- Fourth District Employment Conditions
- Bank Lending, Capital, Booms, and Busts
The last is under the general heading “Baking and Financial Institutions”, so I guess we’re cooked!
The next chart shows a source of our current problems that many consider more important that pesky bankers’ bonuses:
