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Fed Feed Archive
September 2012
Welcome to the September edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Incorporate Fed videos into your teaching!
Want to learn to read an FOMC statement? See a roadmap of the transmission mechanism? Or understand bank stress tests? The New York Fed has up-to-date videos and slides covering post-crisis issues in monetary and financial stability policy. These in-sequence videos and slides can serve as reference material, homework, or to be viewed in classes in your advanced principles, macroeconomics and monetary policy, and money, banking and financial markets courses.
Download a spread sheet listing topics covered in each video and associated chapters in the most popular economics texts.
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May 2012
Welcome to the May edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Professor Bernanke? Watch the Chairman discuss the history of the Fed through the Great Depression, analyze the Fed's activities during the post-war era, provide an overview of the financial crisis, and describe the aftermath of 2008, at a series of lectures at George Washington University:
(1)Origins and Mission of the Federal Reserve
(2)The Federal Reserve after World War II
(3)The Federal Reserve's Response to the Financial Crisis
(4)The Aftermath of the Crisis"
- Paul versus Paul! Ron Paul and Paul Krugman face off on inflation, the role of the Fed, and fiscal policy. The two Pauls see the world very differently - which side of the debate do your students favor?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Atk4jocVk&feature=g-vrec 
- What country is the most globalized? KOF, part of ETH Zurich University where Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize, ranks 187 nations based on their economic, social, and political characteristics. Their website includes easy-to-use graphs and data for download:
http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/
(The answer, according to KOF, is Belgium, while the United States ranks 35th).
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March 2012
Welcome to the March edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- What are the modern reasons of reserve requirements?
- Crash course on the financial crisis
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) at your fingertips
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April 2011
Welcome to the April edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York!
- The NY Fed's new research blog
- The Economists' Voice
- Find a variety of contrarian views including Ed Leamer on "deflation dread disorder and Brad DeLong asking why North Atlantic leaders insist on inflicting economic misery. The Economists' Voice

- Interactive data visualization tool
- How does New York's GDP/capita compare with the US over time? Use Gapminder USA to find out. Gapminder USA

- College Fed Challenge winners
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February 2011
Welcome to the February edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York!
- Macroeconomics post the financial crisis
- See the Journal of Economic Perspectives with articles by Robert Hall, Michael Woodford, Alan Auerbach, and Ricardo Caballero among others: Journal of Economic Perspectives

- Can google predict the economy?
- The Fed's large-scale asset purchases
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November 2010
Welcome to the November edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Come to the NY Fed to hear and ask questions of economists and senior staff
- Registration is open for the Fed in the 21st century, a 2-day symposium for college professors. This is a unique opportunity to hear about:
- The evolving responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System
- New developments in monetary policy tools
- Supervision of large financial institutions
- Recent developments in the global economy
- U.S. housing policy
- Labor markets during the Great Recession
- Dodd-Frank and Basel III
To register visit:
/education/fed21century.html
Paid internships for undergrads
- Your students can apply for summer internships at the NY Fed, including positions in research & statistics, bank supervision, and markets. /careers/current_openings.html
What do Harvard experts think were the causes of economic crisis?
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October 2010
Welcome back to school and welcome to the October edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- The Federal Reserve in the 21st Century: January 12 and 13, 2011.
- Trying to explain IS-LM? The Solow growth model?
- The New York Fed explains how it spent $1.25 trillion during the financial crisis
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April 2010
Welcome to the April 2010 edition of >Fed Feed for university and college educators, with the latest news, classroom resources, job opportunities and other fun from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- Data in the classroom
- Access 15,000 free US data series and create charts with FRED, an easy-to-use website from the St. Louis Fed: Register and save your charts, and they will be updated automatically next term!
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) 
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March 2010
Welcome to the inaugural edition of >Fed Feed, a periodic email message with news, classroom resources, job opportunities and other fun from the education unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
- For the Classroom
- Paid Summer Internships for undergrads and recent grads
- Tell your students to get in their applications. Search for Job ID 3197 www.newyorkfed.org/careers/current_openings.html
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