Librarian Life: Meltzer’s History of the Federal Reserve
December 7, 2016This post describes the work done by FRASER librarians to gather and make the source documents used by Allan Meltzer in his A History of the Federal Reserve available to researchers. Read more
Dismal Facts: Business Cycles
November 16, 2016What goes up must come down. View selected resources, including a chart depicting over 150 years of business cycles with related data and events. Read more
Staff Picks: Wonderland Revisited
November 2, 2016Learn more about economic and trade policy during World War II in this parody of the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party found in the archival papers of economist Winfield Riefler. Read more
Uncurrent Events: Cash for Clunkers
October 5, 2016Cash for Clunkers, the government’s 2009 effort to boost the economy, was not an entirely new concept. A similar plan was proposed in 1938. Read more
Staff Picks: Commercial and Financial Chronicle
September 21, 2016The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, now available in FRASER, is an excellent source of contemporaneous economic and business information for the years 1870 to 1935. Read more
Staff Picks: The New York Fed Circulars
September 7, 2016The New York circulars show more than 80 years of the day-to-day business of the Fed. Read more
FRASER Features: Primary Sources Primer: Letters
August 17, 2016Examine FRASER’s letter collections and see what information you can glean from letters as primary source documents. Read more
Staff Picks: BLS Unemployment Statistics
August 3, 2016A quick review of how the BLS defines and tracks unemployment and how it has changed over time. Read more
FRASER Features: Library Glossary
July 20, 2016Find out what FRASER librarians mean when the terms “metadata”, “series,” and “theme” are used. Read more
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