Econ Comments & Analysis
Washington Times | A holiday wish for the Fed
Retail shops have been doing whatever it takes, including working on Thanksgiving, to entice a few more customers into stores and online outlets. Even after the final “cyber Monday” sales are tallied, the Christmas-buying season may not have gotten off to a big enough start to revive an economy that’s been dragging for the past five years.
AEI | Reducing the impact of too big to fail
In the years leading up to the financial crisis, market participants assumed that policy makers would intervene to avoid the potential negative economic impact from the failure of a systemically important bank.
