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The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress

This report provides an overview of the causes, challenges, political dynamics, and other aspects of the Eurozone's economic crisis and discusses the related issues that Congress may address, such as: how this situation will impact the U.S. economy, IMF (International Monetary Fund) involvement, and how the US and Europe will cooperate to solve these issues. The report also contains supplemental figures and charts.
Date: August 29, 2012
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.; Belkin, Paul; Mix, Derek E. & Weiss, Martin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress (open access)

The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress

The Eurozone's economic crisis threatens economic stability in Europe and beyond. Four specific economic challenges faced are high debt levels and public deficits, weaknesses in the European banking system, recession and high unemployment in some Eurozone countries, and persistent trade imbalances. Three issues for Congress regarding these challenges are how this situation will impact the US economy, IMG involvement, and how the US and Europe will cooperate to solve these issues.
Date: February 29, 2012
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.; Belkin, Paul; Mix, Derek E. & Weiss, Martin A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The U.S. Financial Crisis: Lessons from Sweden (open access)

The U.S. Financial Crisis: Lessons from Sweden

In the early 1990s, Sweden faced a large banking and exchange rate crisis which it eventually resolved. Four lessons that emerged from Sweden's experience are: 1) the resolution process must be transparent; 2) the resolution agency must be politically and financially independent; 3) market discipline must be maintained; and 4) there must be a plan to jump-start credit flows in the financial system. This report provides an overview of the Swedish banking crisis and an explanation of the measures Sweden used to restore its banking system to health.
Date: September 29, 2008
Creator: Jackson, James K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Gas Rationing] (open access)

[News Script: Gas Rationing]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Federal Energy Office which says that the odds are 50-50 that gasoline rationing will become necessary for the summer, as it all depends on the lifting of the Arab oil embargo.
Date: January 29, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Mark] (open access)

[News Script: Mark]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the West German government which has revalued the mark upward by five and one half per cent against certain other European currencies.
Date: June 29, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Viet Cong] (open access)

[News Script: Viet Cong]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the Vietnam war.
Date: April 29, 1971, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Foreign ministry makes no comment] (open access)

[News Script: Foreign ministry makes no comment]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: April 29, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library