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Banking and Policy Issues Magazine

September 1998

Can the U.S. economy weather world storms?
Comments by Gary Stern, Minneapolis Fed president

Schwartz on Friedman
Anna Schwartz offers her insights on Milton Friedman

Some Lessons from Asia
Board Vice Chair Alice Rivlin on international financial crises

Interview with Laurence Meyer Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Sources of Prosperity Cleveland Fed President Jerry Jordan on why countries prosper Remembering William McChesney Martin, Andrew Brimmer recalls the former Board chairman

Book Reviews
A Beautiful Mind
Life in the Ancient Near East

Riverfront History
Interpretive exhibits tell story of Fed bank site

Pricing, Not Reserves
An analysis of FDIC reserves

Remembering When
The arrival of a vault door

The Central Bank of Thailand
An introduction to central banks around the world