Go to the web site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) (fred.stlouisfed.org) and download

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Go to the web site of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (FRED) (fred.stlouisfed.org) and download and graph the data series for the 10-year U.S. Treasury note (GS10) from January 1954 until the most recent month available. Go to the web site of the National Bureau of Economic Research (nber.org) and find the dates for business cycle peaks and troughs. (The period between a business cycle peak and trough is a recession.) Describe how the interest rate on the 10-year note moves just before, during, and just after a recession. Is the pattern the same across recessions?

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Money, Banking, and the Financial System

ISBN: 978-0134524061

3rd edition

Authors: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien

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