Most Recent Articles from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Regional Economist

• Alton Comes to Grip with Industrial Decline 

  Through the 1980s, a railroad bridge, a two-lane highway bridge and a lock and dam, all decrepit with age, dominated the riverfront at Alton, Ill....

  10/01/09 by Thomson, Susan C · More from publication

• In Fed We Trust: New Book Focuses on the Fed in the Eye of the Storm 

  (The author's book review of In Fed We Trust takes the place of our usual National Overview feature, which will return in the next issue.) The...

  10/01/09 by Kliesen, Kevin L · More from publication

• Regulating Carbon Emissions: The Cap-and-Trade Program 

  Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases have heightened concern throughout the world about climate change and global warming. One...

  10/01/09 by Coughlin, Cletus C; Ott, Lesli S · More from publication

• Recession Takes Toll on Eighth District Tax Collections 

  A midst the current recession, declining state tax revenue and an increasing demand for government services-such as Medicaid, unemployment...

  10/01/09 by Garrett, Thomas A · More from publication

• Housing's Great Fall: Putting Household Balance Sheets Together Again 

  Declining U.S. house prices have contributed significantly to the deepest global recession and the most severe financial crisis in many decades.1...

  10/01/09 by Emmons, William · More from publication

• "Man-Cession" of 2008-09: It's Big, but It's Not Great, The 

  Between the fourth quarter of 2007, when the current recession began, and the first quarter of 2009, men bore 78 percent of the job losses. Over...

  10/01/09 by Wall, Howard J · More from publication

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