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From Fedspeak To Forward Guidance: Regulatory Dimensions Of Central Bank Communications, Robert B. Ahdieh
From Fedspeak To Forward Guidance: Regulatory Dimensions Of Central Bank Communications, Robert B. Ahdieh
Faculty Scholarship
In the face of the financial crisis that engulfed the globe beginning in 2007, the U.S. Federal Reserve quickly found itself without the key lever of monetary policy on which it had traditionally relied: short-term interest rate adjustments designed to move long-term rates, and thereby expected levels of lending, investment, and capital retention. By late 2008, short-term rates were already close to zero, yet unemployment remained strikingly high – with no sign of any likely renewal of bank lending or commercial investment.
Famously, the Fed embraced so-called quantitative easing – the purchase of massive volumes of public and private debt …
Openness In Extraction, Lisa E. Sachs, Shefa Siegel
Openness In Extraction, Lisa E. Sachs, Shefa Siegel
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications
More than a decade before becoming President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer, observed that, among the branches of property law, the distribution of mining rights most elegantly reflects the vicissitudes of social and political relations. According to Hoover, mining rights were a "never-ending contention," as old as economic and civil conflict, among four principle classes – overlord, state, landowner, and miner. "Somebody," he concluded, "has to keep peace and settle disputes."
Today, with the prices of major natural-resource commodities – including oil, coal, copper, gold, and iron ore – doubling, tripling, or rising even faster, the …
Access To And Across Public Lands, Rebecca Love Kourlis
Access To And Across Public Lands, Rebecca Love Kourlis
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
16 pages.
Contains list of references (page 1 of text).
Agenda: The Federal Land Policy And Management Act, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: The Federal Land Policy And Management Act, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
The Federal Land Policy and Management Act (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors James N. Corbridge, Lawrence J. MacDonnell, David H. Getches and Charles F. Wilkinson.
This important piece of legislation, passed by Congress in 1976 following many years of extensive study and debate, directs the activities of the nation's major land manager--the Bureau of Land Management. The FLPMA conference will bring together a distinguished group of experts to review the law itself, to consider the effectiveness with which it has been implemented, and to discuss the key issues which have arisen under its implementation.
Groundwater And Intergovernmental Relations In The Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, Sally K. Fairfax, Barbara T. Andrews
Groundwater And Intergovernmental Relations In The Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, Sally K. Fairfax, Barbara T. Andrews
Groundwater: Allocation, Development and Pollution (Summer Conference, June 6-9)
25 pages (includes maps).