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Author: lklusek

FRED Adds IMF Data

This December the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis added a collection of IMF data to its database of U.S. and international economic time series, FRED.  The data includes 399 financial statistics and monetary aggregates including interest rates, exchange rates, and measures of M1, M2, and M3.

Students will like this resource because of its easy to use interface. The data opens in a graph with options to download or view the underlying data or to save the graph as a pdf.

This data from the IMF is not free elsewhere but can be found in Datastream and in the paper copies of the IMF’s International Financial Statistics Yearbook (at REF HG 61 .I57)

Resource Sharing

The New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University and New York University have announced the formation of a new collaboration,called the Manhattan Research Library Initiative, or MaRLI.  The press release says, in part, that –

MaRLI will enable NYU and Columbia PhD students and faculty, as well as scholars whose work is based at NYPL, to check out materials from all three libraries, a first step to improve access to collections among the three institutions.  The model is a departure from NYPL’s historical practice, whereby research materials have not been allowed to circulate.

New York Public Library users unaffiliated with NYU or CU can obtain borrowing privileges by demonstrating that they have exhausted the available resources for their projects and need sustained access to the resources of the three institutions.  A research consultation with an NYPL librarian and a completed form are required.

Read the full press release here.

For BPL5100 Students

Students in one of the BPL5100 classes I met with last week asked for industry-specific guides. Until I can develop some, I have added a page of industry resources to the BPL5100 Guide. These are the industries that are included: automobiles, oil and gas, lodging, restaurants, freight & logistics, pharmaceuticals, retailing and telecommunications.

Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch

Stephen Francoeur has published a guide to the Spring semester’s Harman Writer-in-Residence, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.  She writes about social issues and her book, Random Family –about life in the South Bronx– was voted the 2nd best journalistic book of the past decade.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s upcoming reading is Tuesday, March 22nd at 5:45 PM in 750 (Library Building).

More on her life and career can be found on  the Harman website.

The World in 2050

Forecasts predicting the state of the world economy in 2050 have been featured in articles in the WSJ and FT recently. Baruch faculty have been talking about these reports so I thought I’d share a few of them with you. Willem Buiter and Ebrahim Rahbari at Citi wrote “Global Growth Generators.” Read about it in the FT’s blog. I couldn’t find a copy online.

The others are:

The Super- Cycle Report from Standard Chartered Bank

The World in 2050 from HKSB

A series on the World in 2050 from PWC

World Order in 2050 from the Carnegie Endowment