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blogs.wsj.com - 10/1/2009
Out-of-the-Box Papers by New Minneapolis Fed President - Real Time Economics
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The Minneapolis Fed has hired a very unconventional University of Minnesota professor to serve as its new president. Narayana Kocherlakota served as chairman of Minnesota’s economics department for three years. He’s written lots of out-of-the-box papers, including this one in which he argues ...

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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Vanilla Option, Extra Scoop « Rortybomb Out-of-the-Box Papers by New Minneapolis Fed President - Real Time Economics - WSJ The Washington ...

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Marginal Revolution — 1. New FT blog on money and the money supply. 2. Congestion pricing for parking in Arlington. 3. Negative interest rates for Sweden? 4. Unusual papers by the new Minnesota Fed chairman. 5. Analysis of Ardipithecus, and here.

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