The ZFS file system from Sun is the latest buzz word in the file system community. The creators of ZFS claim to have re-designed the file system from scratch, providing new features and levels of reliability, performance and efficiency uncommon in traditional file systems. This includes dynamic block allocation that changes the blocks sizes based on workloads. In this paper we have primarily fo...

2012 The Econom doi: 10.1111/j.1475 This paper focuses on Federal Reserve policy in the United States after the financial crisis. Two key interventions – QE1 and QE2 – are reviewed, and a model is outlined that can be used to help understand some of the consequences of the financial crisis, and the policy responses to the crisis. Liquidity traps play an important role in the analysis, and it is...