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129: Ending 'Too Big to Fail'

Richard W. Fisher

128: Comments on monetary policy and 'Too Big to Fail' (with a tribute to Irving Kristol)

Richard W. Fisher

127: Ending 'Too Big to Fail': a proposal for reform before it's too late (with reference to Patrick Henry, complexity and reality)

Richard W. Fisher

126: Excerpts from Richard Fisher's remarks before the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce

Richard W. Fisher

125: The state of the West (with reference to George Shultz, Eisenhower, Buzz Lightyear, George Strait, the San Francisco Fed and Adam and Eve)

Richard W. Fisher

124: Opening remarks with an update on the continued outperformance of Mexico's economy and government compared with that of the United States

Richard W. Fisher

123: The United States is not Europe and Texas ain't France: America as the thoroughbred economy

Richard W. Fisher

122: Comments to the Harvard Club of New York City on monetary policy (with reference to Tommy Tune, Nicole Parent, the FOMC, Velcro, drunken sailors and Congress)

Richard W. Fisher

121: Remarks before the Australian American Leadership Dialogue

Richard W. Fisher

120: Vignettes of Dallas Fed history on the eve of our centennial (with grateful reference to George Dealey and a tip of the hat to Ebby Halliday, W.F. Ramsey, and Fed and Ginger)>

Richard W. Fisher

119: Globalization and government policy

Richard W. Fisher

118: Globalization and monetary policy

Richard W. Fisher

117: Globalization and Texas

Richard W. Fisher

116: Contemplating the nature of money and the capillaries of capitalism

Richard W. Fisher

115: A perspective on the economic outlook

Richard W. Fisher

114: An overview of banking, and the U.S. and Texas economies

Richard W. Fisher

113: The world economy: sharpening our peripheral vision

Richard W. Fisher

112: China's economic growth

Richard W. Fisher

111: A walk around the world economy

Richard W. Fisher

110: Can Germany hold its own in the new world of a reconfigured Europe, an ascendant China, and 21st century America? Is German economic decline exaggerated? or inevitable?

Richard W. Fisher

109: A year-end wrap-up of the economy and a peek ahead

Richard W. Fisher

108: Implications of renminbi internationalization for the U.S. and the global economy (with reference to Wu Yi, being manufactured in China, Yang Rui, Deng Xiaoping and avoiding the middle-income trap)

Richard W. Fisher

107: The limits of the powers of central banks (with metaphoric references to Edvard Munch's Scream and Sir Henry Raeburn's The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch)

Richard W. Fisher

106: Adios \"Texas Ratio\" (with an unauthorized rewrite of George Strait's most memorable song and a tribute to Bob Hankins)

Richard W. Fisher

105: “Not to be used externally, but also harmful if swallowed”: projecting the future of the economy and lessons learned from Texas and Mexico

Richard W. Fisher

104: The United States should borrow Mexico's fiscal discipline manual (with reference to Cantinflas, Guillermo Ortiz's quip, inflation targeting and many comparative metrics)

Richard W. Fisher

103: Texas redux, America restrained (with a discussion of the limits of monetary policy)

Richard W. Fisher

102: A report on the Texas economy and a hawk(s)eye view on recent Fed pronouncements: what does it all mean?

Richard W. Fisher

101: Where have we been and where are we going? (with reference to Wodehouse’s Lead Pipe, Saint Willibrord’s Shuffle, Munch’s Scream and Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Sink)

Richard W. Fisher

100: Taming the Too-Big-to-Fails: Will Dodd–Frank Be the Ticket or Is Lap-Band surgery required? (with reference to Vinny Guadagnino, Andrew Haldane, Paul Volcker, John Milton, Tom Hoenig and Churchill’s ‘Terminological Inexactitude’)

Richard W. Fisher

99: Thoughts on Bastiat (with a nod to Keynes!)

Richard W. Fisher

98: Buy a ticket! (with reference to the Strauss Brothers, Ambassador Mike Moore, Kenneth Arrow, financial sharpies, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gov. Dewey)

Richard W. Fisher

97: A report on the economy (with a nod to the Carl Sewells and Ben Bernanke)

Richard W. Fisher

96: Texas: what makes us exceptional? Where are we vulnerable?

Richard W. Fisher

95: Explaining dissent on the FOMC vote for Operation Twist (with reference to Jan Mayen Island, Paul Volcker and Thor’s Hammer)

Richard W. Fisher

94: Of moose and men (with no reference to Steinbeck)

Richard W. Fisher

93: Connecting the dots: Texas employment growth; a dissenting vote; and the ugly truth (with reference to P.G. Wodehouse)

Richard W. Fisher

92: An economic overview: what's next? remembering Carol Reed, Aesop's Fable, Kenneth Arrow and Thomas Dewey

Richard W. Fisher

91: ¡Ándale Pues! Get on with advancing Hispanic prosperity through education

Richard W. Fisher

90: Containing (or restraining) systemic risk: the need to not fail on 'Too Big to Fail' (with reference to Margaret Thatcher, Geoffrey Howe, Irving Kristol, Joe Nocera, Bastiat, Nietzsche, Mencken and Sandy Weill)

Richard W. Fisher

89: A perspective on the U.S. Economy and monetary policy (with reference to the music of Richard Wagner and Gangsta Rap)

Richard W. Fisher

88: 'Is America's decline exaggerated or inevitable?' The role of monetary and fiscal policy (with reference to St. Peter, Calvin Coolidge, Walter Bagehot, Paul Volcker, Winston Churchill and T.R. Fehrenbach)

Richard W. Fisher

87: Churchill, Baruch, Lindsay Lohan, Congress and the Fed

Richard W. Fisher

86: A need for innovative fiscal policy (with a nod to John Stemmons, Ronald Reagan and Paddy McCoy)

Richard W. Fisher

85: The limits of monetary policy: 'Monetary policy responsibility cannot substitute for government irresponsibility'

Richard W. Fisher

84: Texas: what makes us exceptional? Where are we vulnerable?

Richard W. Fisher

83: Recent decisions of the Federal Open Market Committee: a bridge to fiscal sanity? (acknowledging Henry B. Gonzalez and Winston Churchill)

Richard W. Fisher

82: Coping with globalization's impact on monetary policy

Richard W. Fisher

81: Excerpts from Remarks on the process of creative destruction

Richard W. Fisher

80: The United States: still the growth engine for the world economy?

Richard W. Fisher