- New Orleans Inspector General Cerasoli forges ahead with full funding
Now that the New Orleans City Council has promised to fully fund his new office, Inspector General Robert Cerasoli is racing to ramp up his operations. The City Council promised Tuesday to provide Cerasoli's complete funding request of $2.9 million for the OIG and $300,000 for the Ethics Review Board....
- New Orleans Inspector General Robert Cerasoli forges ahead with full funding
Now that the New Orleans City Council has promised to fully fund his new office, Inspector General Robert Cerasoli is racing to ramp up his operations. On Tuesday, the City Council promised to provide Cerasoli's complete funding request of $2.9 million for the OIG and $300,000 for the Ethics Review ......
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Fed appoints '08 regional bank chairmen, deputy chairmen The administrator of a Twin Cities nonprofit corporation that provides administrative services to pension and welfare benefit plans, and the chairman and CEO of a northwestern Minnesota manufacturing company were appointed 2008 chairman and deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of ......
- Missouri banker appointed to Federal Advisory Council
Camden R. Fine, president and CEO of Midwest Independent Bank, Jefferson City, Mo., and chairman of the board of Bunceton State Bank, Bunceton, Mo., was recently appointed to the 12member Federal Advisory Council (FAC) by the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. Fine, 50, is the first Jefferson City banker to ......
- Rethinking stabilization policy.
For some time, the use of monetary and fiscal policies to smooth business cycle fluctuations has taken a back seat to longer term objectives of restoring price stability and fiscal balance. Many policymakers and academic economists have held the view that fiscal policy had little or no short-run stabilization role ......
- 'Beige Book' reveals what the Fed thinks of your area's economy
The Federal Reserve Bank has released its periodic "Beige Book" (so named for the color of the cover) reporting on regional economic conditions over the first six weeks of 2002, based on interviews conducted by economists in each of the 12 Federal Reserve districts (Boston, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, ......
- Changing financial industry structure and regulation
On May 3-5, 2000, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held its 36th annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, focusing on the changing financial industry structure and regulation. As barriers to geographic expansion have been removed, there has been a significant increase in the number and size of bank......