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FRBSF Highlights
Tarullo Speaks to the House on Regulatory Reform Tarullo Speaks to the House on Regulatory Reform
Governor Daniel K. Tarullo testifies before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., on
October 29, 2009, stating "Because the roots of the crisis reached so deeply into the very nature of the financial system, a broad program of reform is required."
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Bernanke speaks to "Asia and the Global Financial Crisis" Bernanke speaks to "Asia and the Global Financial Crisis"
Federal Reserve Board of Governors Chairman Ben S. Bernanke presented at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Conference on Asia and the Global Financial Crisis, Santa Barbara, California, October 19, 2009.
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Fed Views Fed Views
Glenn Rudebusch, senior vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.
October 13, 2009
   
Publication Written By FRBSF Manager in Community Development Publication Written By FRBSF Manager in Community Development
In his new book "The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods" David Erickson, PhD  and Manager of the  Center for Community Development Investments, investigates how our historic approach to housing policy developed and fundamentally transformed governmental response to public welfare.
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President's Speech
The Outlook for Recovery in the U.S. Economy
Presentation to the San Francisco Society of Certified Financial Analysts
San Francisco, CA
September 14, 2009

 
Economic Letter
Inflation Expectations and the Risk of Deflation
Predicting the course of inflation is one of the most important challenges facing monetary policymakers. Useful aids to such prediction are the measures of expected future inflation obtained from prices in government bond markets. An examination of recent inflation-indexed and non-indexed U.S. Treasury bond yields suggests that financial market participants believe that the probability of prolonged deflation has become fairly small.
Christensen :: 2009-34
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