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Laurel Graefe

Affiliation: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Laurel Graefe is a senior economic research analyst in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.




Laurel Graefe's Latest Articles | 6

Gauging the Inflation Expectations of Business

Jul 21, 2010| 

Last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that the consumer price index (CPI) declined in June for the third consecutive month. And although... Read »

A Look at the Income-Side Estimates of Growth

Mar 12, 2010| 

Last week, a post in the New York Times‘ Freakonomics blog on Okun’s law made note of the statistical discrepancy between the two methods for calculating... Read »

Looking Behind the Core Inflation Numbers

Feb 23, 2010| 

Last Friday’s consumer price index (CPI) report showed headline inflation in January remaining stable from the previous month at a 2 percent annual rate, a... Read »

It’s Jobs, Not Discouraged Workers

Jan 21, 2010| 

Though they represent only a small fraction of the overall labor force (roughly 0.3 percent on average from 1994 through 2007), discouraged workers have received... Read »

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