Remarks before the New York Association for Business Economics, New York, N.Y., October 19, 2010 ; "So. what will we likely decide at the next FOMC meeting? As with the American League championship, you'll find out when it's over and only then."

Remarks before the Association for Financial Professionals, San Antonio, Texas, November 8, 2010 ; "In sum, I asked that the FOMC consider that we might be prescribing the wrong medicine for the ailment from which our economy is suffering. Liquidity and abundant money are not the binding...

Delivered at the High Profile Speaker Series, New York Society of Security Analysts, New York City. November 8, 2010.

Remarks for the Annual Joint Luncheon of Commercial Real Estate Women Dallas and North Texas Certified Commercial Investment Members, Dallas, Texas, August 16, 2006 ; "In determining future policy, my colleagues and I will watch and listen and "taste" the indicators carefully as they come in....

Remarks before the Texas A&M Retailing Summit, Dallas, Texas, October 7, 2011 ; "We have filled the gas tanks of the economy with affordable liquidity. What is needed now is for employers to confidently step on the pedal and engage the transmission that will use that fuel to move the great...

Studies of the predictive ability of the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, an anecdotal measure of regional economic conditions, for aggregate output and employment have proven inconclusive. This might be attributed, in part, to the irregular release schedule of the Beige Book. In this paper, we use...

This study offers a historical review of the monetary policy reform of October 6, 1979, and discusses the influences behind it and its significance. We lay out the record from the start of 1979 through the spring of 1980, relying almost exclusively upon contemporaneous sources, including the...