Features By Dash Wasserman
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Financial Forecasting: Beating the Storm
The Office for Financial Research, or OFR, is a new government outfit that aims to forecast financial storms before they happen....
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The Debt Ceiling: Inching Toward Trouble
Just days after a deal to cut $38 billion in federal spending averted a government shutdown, politicians gear up for the next battle: to raise or...
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Bretton Woods Examines Global Financial Policy
After World War II, Bretton Woods, NH hosted that era's top economists, who hoped to rebuild a world financial system in tatters. Now, Bretton...
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Accounting for Happiness
A survey on social "well-being" will give economists -- and voters -- a new tool for judging their leaders. The British government wants to compile...
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Happiness? There's an App for That
A graduate student from London has developed an iPhone app that's part GPS and part mood ring. The new technology comes as the British government...
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Financial Reform: A Mortgage Game-changer
The Dodd-Frank law is having a big effect on the mortgage market, namely in the future fate of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
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Boredom: Looking Beyond GDP
France is the latest country to move beyond Gross Domestic Product to measure economic success. And unlike many countries these days, the Frenchare...
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The Middle of America, On the Move Again
The mean center of population distribution changes every time the census data is recorded, and it looks to have moved from the past decade....
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Is a Post-Dollar World on Its Way?
The new yuan-denominated accounts at the Bank of China in New York and California are the latest sign of the end of dollar dominance....
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Colorado's Rocky Budget Year
Colorado faces a tough budget year due to the loss of tax revenue and growing costs to keep programs and services running. It's inspired some...
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