Linda Goldberg

Mar 20, 2024 | chabad.org | Eli Landes |Linda Goldberg |Linda Tucker |Moshe Parelman

Jake Green has it all figured out. Author of a popular philosophy of life, he has little time for the distractions of religion. But after a chance encounter with an old friend, he begins to realize how much his life is missing. Sit down for a moment. I’m about to tell a story, and trust me—you’ll want to be sitting down for this one. So begins the tale of a tortured Jew’s encounter with the enigmatic Man in the Train Station. As the world’s first AI becomes active, it begins to ponder existence.

Mar 3, 2024 | econofact.org | Linda Goldberg

Much of global trade in goods and services is denominated in U.S. dollars. The dollar is widely used for bilateral trade between countries other than the United States. And the use of the dollar is even more dominant in global financial transactions. What advantages accrue to the United States from the dominance of the dollar? Are there costs associated with it as well? Does the importance of the dollar require a special role for the Federal Reserve at times of crises?

Aug 3, 2023 | chabad.org | Linda Goldberg

My sister, Rifka, and I recently had a discussion about something that happened many years ago, when I was 4 years old and she was 6. She had forgotten about the incident, but I remembered. We grew up in Jewish Boston. As a family of four, we lived in a four-room apartment on the second floor—Mom, Dad, Rifka and me. Mom was pregnant at the time with our brother, Marty. It was a winter day with snow falling. The four of us, plus my favorite doll, a Toni doll, got into Dad’s car.

Jun 15, 2023 | nber.org | Linda Goldberg

The views in this paper are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System. This paper has been prepared to accompany my Mundell Fleming Lecture, delivered at the IMF Annual Research Conference and 23rd Jacques Polak Conference.