ACROSS THE BOARD : THE WEEK AHEAD.MONDAY Treasury auctions T-bills ALSO TUESDAY: Federal Reserve releases consumer credit for August. Joint Congressional Economic Committee holds hearing on International Monetary Fund reform. WEDNESDAY: Federal Reserve releases beige book Beige Book A commonly used name for the Fed report entitled "Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District." It is published just before the FOMC meeting on interest rates and is used to inform the members on changes in the economy since the last of economic regional conditions. Treasury makes quarterly refunding announcement. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan Dr. Greenspan is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Greenspan also serves as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the Fed's principal monetary policymaking body. speaks to National Association of Bank Executives. FRIDAY: Labor Department The Department of Labor (DOL) administers federal labor laws for the Executive Branch of the federal government. Its mission is "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working releases producer prices for July. Commerce Department releases business inventories for June. Federal Reserve releases industrial production for July. BIZ BYTES BLUE BRINGS GREEN: Blue definitely has a clue. The animated puppy star of Nickelodeon's ``Blue's Clues'' won kids over with her top-rated television show, and now little Blue is also making a big splash in toy stores around the nation. With three months to go until Christmas, many retailers already report sellouts of the ``Blue's Clues'' line and some have even put limits on how many items customers can buy. While the show first aired two years ago, ``Blue's Clues'' merchandise just hit stores this summer. But since hitting the stores, demand for anything tied to ``Blue's Clues'' has topped expectations. ``We are seeing Sing-Along Blue sell at six times what Tickle Me Elmo Tickle Me Elmo is a childrens' toy from Tyco, introduced in the United States in 1996, becoming that year's top fad. Bright red in color and based on Elmo, a Muppet character from Sesame Street, when squeezed, Elmo would chortle. did when it was launched in 1996,'' said Neil Friedman, president of Tyco Preschool, a division of Mattel that oversees the Fisher-Price line. ``Every retailer that we've talked to says it sells out within two weeks of when it gets in.'' - Associated Press SITE OF THE WEEK DIG IT: If modern archeology with a little chutzpah chutz·pah also hutz·pah n. Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality" New York Times. appeals to you, www.infiltration.org offers to take you through several off-limits areas around the world. Proclaiming itself ``the zine Pronounced "zeen." See Webzine and e-zine. about going places you're not supposed to go,'' Infiltration concerns itself with urban exploration. There's also a fascinating section devoted to roaming through steam tunnels on college campuses. Infiltration includes a link to the College Tunnels page (members.tripod.com/tunnels/tunnels.html), which educates its readers about the hobby but warns them, ``Tunneling is a very dangerous activity and you do so at your own risk.'' For those who are curious, the page offers links to information on tunnels at 52 major universities. - The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times |
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