Economic indicators.
Market Rates and Bond Yields--% June Dec. June 2002 2001 2001 Reserve Bank Discount 1.25 1.33 3.47 Prime Rate (monthly average) 4.75 4.84 6.98 Federal Funds Rate 1.75 1.82 3.97 3-Month Treasury Bills 1.70 1.69 3.49 6-Month Treasury Bills 1.79 1.78 3.45 3-Month Certificates of Deposit 1.81 1.83 3.74...

Beholden to Beijing.
"As the U.S. has grown ever reliant on foreign central banks to finance its trade and budget deficits, the question arises: Could foreign governments, like China's, one day use this clout to influence U.S. foreign policy?" Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal posed that question in the paper's...

Economic Indicators.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS Market Rates and Bond Yields--% Dec. June Dec. June Dec. Dec 2001 2001 2000 2000 1999 1998 Reserve Bank Discount 1.33 3.47 6.00 6.00 5.00 4.50 Prime Rate (monthly average) 4.84 6.98 9.50 9.50 8.50 7.75 Federal Funds Rate 1.82 3.97 6.40 6.53 5.30 4.68 3-Month Treasury...

Economic indicators.
Market Rates and Bond Yields--% Sept. March 2002 2001 Reserve Bank Discount 1.25 1.25 Prime Rate (monthly average) 4.75 4.75 Federal Funds Rate 1.75 1.73 3-Month Treasury Bills 1.63 1.79 6-Month Treasury Bills 1.60 2.01 3-Month Certificates of Deposit 1.76 1.91 LIBOR-3 month rate 1.75 1.91 U.S. 5-Year Bond...

Economic indicators.
Economic Indicators. Market Rates and Bond Yields--% Mar. Sept. Mar. Sept. Mar. Mar. 2002 2001 2001 2000 2000 1999 Reserve Bank Discount 1.25 2.77 4.81 6.00 5.34 4.50 Prime Rate (monthly average) 4.75 6.28 8.32 9.50 8.83 7.75 Federal Funds Rate 1.73 3.07 5.31 6.52 5.85 4.81 3-Month Treasury...

Economic indicators.
Economic Indicators Market Rates and Bond Yields--% March Sept. March Sept. 2003 2002 2002 2001 Reserve Bank Discount 2.25 1.25 1.25 2.77 Prime Rate (monthly average) 4.25 4.75 4.75 6.28 Federal Funds Rate 1.25 1.75 1.73 3.07 3-Month Treasury Bills 1.13 1.63 1.79 2.64 6-Month Treasury Bills 1.13 1.60...

Giving the West Away.
Back in early days of Reagantime, Interior Secretary James Watt hatched a dark fantasy to sell off millions of acres of public forest and parklands to private corporations. When this scheme leaked out to the press, it was met with howls of derision, and Watt was vilified even by...

Economic indicators.
Market Rates and Bond Yields--% June Dec. June Dec. June June 2003 2002 2002 2001 2001 2001 Reserve Bank Discount 2.20 2.25 1.25 1.33 3.47 6.00 Prime Rate (monthly average) 4.22 4.25 4.75 4.84 6.98 9.50 Federal Funds Rate 1.22 1.24 1.75 1.82 3.97 6.53 3-Month Treasury Bills 0.92...

Patriot gains.
A FREE NATION, DEEP IN DEBT by James MacDonald Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.00 ON THE THREE MONTH COMMEMORATION of the September 11 attacks, Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O'Neill, yielding to congressional pressure, held a press conference to announce a new way Americans could fight...

WC system--no relief in sight. (Up Front).
Employers looking for workers' compensation prices to moderate any time soon will probably be disappointed. "We believe there's a hardening market for workers' compensation," says Robert Partridge. managing director in Standard & Poor's financial services ratings division. "What you're getting are significant price increases, but we're also seeing rising...