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The 2008 Commercial-Paper Freeze Showed Why Ordinary Companies Need Financial Markets
Financial crises do not remain confined to banks and traders. Many large businesses use commercial paper—short-term unsecured debt—to…
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Before the 1997 Asian Crisis, Fast Growth Concealed Balance-Sheet Risks
Several economies at the center of the 1997 Asian financial crisis were considered development successes just before capital…
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Why the Marshall Plan Also Opened Markets for American Industry
Foreign aid can benefit a donor's economy while helping recipients recover. The Marshall Plan offers a historical example.…
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What St. Louis Fed Officials Could See at the End of 1929
National narratives of the Wall Street crash tend to focus on New York trading floors. A regional Federal…
Business
A January 1930 Business Report Shows How Economic Data Arrived Too Late
What could an analyst know in January 1930, just months after Wall Street's October collapse? The Commerce Department's…