| Dec 30 | Regulation, Global Governance Bodies Testimony Before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives |
| Apr 17 | Biden Calls for Tariffs on Chinese Steel in Pittsburgh Pitch, Vying... Speaking to the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh, the president urged major increases to some tariffs on steel and aluminum products from China. |
| Apr 17 | The Global Turn Away From Free-Market Policies Worries Economists More countries are embracing measures meant to encourage their own security and independence, a trend that some say could slow global growth. |
| Apr 17 | VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions The United Automobile Workers hopes contract gains at the Big Three carmakers will provide momentum in a broad effort to organize nonunion plants. |
| Apr 16 | Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on February 20 and Ma... Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on February 20 and March 20, 2024 |
| Apr 16 | G17: Data Download Program and Federal Reserve Economic Data Partne... The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data... |
| Apr 16 | G17: G.17 Data for March 2024 are now available Industrial production and capacity utilization data for March 2024 are now available. Industrial production rose 0.4 percent in March but declined at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter. Manufacturing output increased 0.5 percent in... |
| Apr 16 | Jefferson, Economic Uncertainty and the Evolution of Monetary Polic... Speech At the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy, Washington, D.C. |
| Apr 15 | G17: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17 Note: Due to technical difficulties the "preview sample" page and the Data Download Program (DDP) may be intermittently slow or unavailable and will be updated as soon as possible. The G.17 release will be available on-time through https://www.fed... |
| Apr 15 | Why Better Times (and Big Raises) Haven’t Cured the Inflation Hangover Frustrated by higher prices, many Pennsylvanians with fresh pay raises and solid finances report a sense of insecurity lingering from the pandemic. |
| Apr 13 | 3 Facts That Help Explain a Confusing Economic Moment The path to a “soft landing” doesn’t seem as smooth as it did four months ago. But the expectations of a year ago have been surpassed. |
| Apr 12 | FEDS Paper: Financial Stability Implications of CBDC Francesca Carapella , Jin-Wook Chang , Sebastian Infante , Melissa Leistra, Arazi Lubis, and Alexandros P. Vardoulakis A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a form of digital money that is denominated in the national unit of account and consti... |
| Apr 12 | Immigrants in Maine Are Filling a Labor Gap. It May Be a Prelude fo... A wave of rapid immigration is taxing local resources around the country and drawing political ire. But it might leave America’s economy better off. |
| Apr 11 | Soft Landing or No Landing? Fed’s Economic Picture Gets Complicated. Stubborn inflation and strong growth could keep the Federal Reserve wary about interest rate cuts, eager to avoid adding vim to the economy. |
| Apr 11 | Is the Boom-and-Bust Business Cycle Dead? There is a growing view that the U.S. business cycle has changed (for better) in a more diversified economy. To some, that sounds like tempting fate. |
| Apr 10 | Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 19-20, 2024 Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 19-20, 2024 |
| Apr 10 | FEDS Paper: Tracking Real Time Layoffs with SEC Filings: A Prelimin... Leland D. Crane , Emily Green, Molly Harnish, Will McClennan, Paul E. Soto , Betsy Vrankovich, and Jacob Williams We explore a new source of data on layoffs: timely 8-K filings with the Securities and and Exchange Commission. We develop measures o... |
| Apr 10 | FEDS Paper: Risk Perception and Loan Underwriting in Securitized Co... Simon Firestone, Nathan Godin, Akos Horvath , Jacob Sagi We use model-implied volatility to proxy for property risk perceptions in the commercial real estate lending market. Although loan-to-value ratios (LTVs) unconditionally decreased following ... |
| Apr 9 | FEDS Paper: Institution, Major, and Firm-Specific Premia: Evidence ... Ben Ost, Weixiang Pan, and Douglas Webber We examine how a student’s field of degree and institution attended contribute to the labor market outcomes of young graduates. Administrative panel data that combines student transcripts with matche... |
| Apr 9 | Higher for Longer After All? Investors See Fed Rates Falling More S... Investors went into 2024 expecting the Federal Reserve to cut rates sharply. Stubborn inflation and quick growth call that into question. |
| Apr 9 | FEDS Paper: A New Measure of Climate Transition Risk Based on Dista... Benjamin N. Dennis , Talan B. İşcan |
| Apr 8 | TSMC Will Receive $6.6 Billion to Bolster U.S. Chip Manufacturing Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to build an additional factory and upgrade another planned facility in Phoenix with the federal grants. |
| Apr 8 | Yellen Sees ‘More Work to Do’ as China Talks End With No Breakthrough Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen was warmly received in China, but it was evident that the level of trust between the two sides does not run deep. |
| Apr 8 | U.S. Employers Added 303,000 Jobs in 39th Straight Month of Growth The March data increased confidence among economists and investors that robust hiring and rising wages can continue to coexist while inflation eases. |
| Apr 7 | Why a Second Trump Term Could Be Bad for Corporate America Despite his populist promises, many bigwigs are keeping the faith that it couldn’t really happen here. |
| Apr 6 | Consumers Hate ‘Price Discrimination,’ but They Sure Love a Discount The Wendy’s debacle is a warning shot for brands: If you want to play with prices, make sure to communicate why and whom it could help. |
| Apr 6 | Yellen Warns China on Exports and Russia Support Beijing’s economic policies threaten American workers, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen told Vice Premier He Lifeng in the southern city of Guangzhou. |
| Apr 5 | Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama Ask for Unionization Vote The United Automobile Workers union is mounting its most ambitious effort to gain an industry foothold beyond Detroit’s Big Three. |
| Apr 5 | New Questions on How a Key Agency Shared Inflation Data A government economist had regular contact with “super users” in finance, records show, at a time when such information keenly interests investors. |
| Apr 5 | G19: Data Download Program and Federal Reserve Economic Data Partne... The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data... |
| Apr 5 | As Wildfires Grow Fiercer, Some Companies Look to Rebuild the Tree ... As forests succumb to ever-fiercer wildfires, the federal government and some adventurous private companies are trying to resuscitate an industry. |
| Apr 5 | Bowman, Risks and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy: Current and Past ... Speech At “Frameworks for Monetary Policy, Regulation, and Bank Capital” Spring 2024 Meeting of the Shadow Open Market Committee, hosted by the Manhattan Institute, New York, New York |
| Apr 4 | Kugler, Enriching Data and Analysis in Economics with Real Life Exp... Speech At Women in Economics Symposium, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Apr 4 | Kate Shindle on Why She’s Stepping Down as Actors’ Equity President After nine years in the role, she has decided not to seek re-election in May. Her departure comes amid significant turnover in the theater industry. |
| Apr 4 | FEDS Paper: On Commercial Construction Activity's Long and Variable... David Glancy , Robert J. Kurtzman , and Lara Loewenstein We use microdata on the phases of commercial construction projects to document three facts regarding time-to-plan lags: (1) plan times are long—about 1.5 years on average—and hig... |
| Apr 4 | U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, February 2024 The U.S. goods and services trade deficit increased in February 2024 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit increased from $67.6 billion in January (revised) to $68.9 billion in February, as impor... |
| Apr 3 | Kugler, The Outlook for the U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy Speech At the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Apr 3 | Fed Chair Powell Wants Inflation to Cool More Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said officials can take their time cutting rates. He also underscored the Fed’s independence as election season heats up. |
| Apr 3 | Powell, Opening Remarks Speech At the Stanford Business, Government, and Society Forum, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California |
| Apr 3 | Bowman, Bank Liquidity, Regulation, and the Fed's Role as Lender of... Speech At The Roundtable on the Lender of Last Resort: The 2023 Banking Crisis and COVID, sponsored by the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, Washington, D.C. |
| Apr 2 | Bowman, Bank Mergers and Acquisitions, and De Novo Bank Formation: ... Speech At A Workshop on the Future of Banking, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri |
| Apr 2 | FOR: Data Download Program and Federal Reserve Economic Data Partne... The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data... |
| Apr 1 | Cook, Hope, Promise, and Mentors Speech At the Samuel DuBois Cook Center Career Achievement Awards Ceremony, the University Club, Washington, D.C. |
| Apr 1 | H10: Data Download Program and Federal Reserve Economic Data Partne... The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data... |
| Mar 29 | FEDS Paper: How Private Equity Fuels Non-Bank Lending Sharjil Haque , Simon Mayer, and Teng Wang We show how private equity (PE) buyouts fuel loan sales and non-bank participation in the U.S. syndicated loan market. Combining loan-level data from the Shared National Credit register with buyout deals ... |
| Mar 29 | H8: Data Download Program and Federal Reserve Economic Data Partner... The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) program are working together to expand options for finding, accessing, and visualizing data from the Board's Data... |
| Mar 29 | H8: Notice to Users of the H.8 Release Data on this H.8 release have been benchmarked through the December 2023 Call Report. Data on the previous release were benchmarked through the September 2023 Call Report. The release also incorporates revisions to underlying data. Seasonal factor... |
| Mar 29 | Gross Domestic Product by State and Personal Income by State, 4th Q... Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the fourth quarter of 2023, with the percent change ranging from 6.7 percent in Nevada to 0.2 percent in Nebraska. Full Text |
| Mar 29 | Personal Income and Outlays, February 2024 Personal income increased $66.5 billion (0.3 percent at a monthly rate) in February. Disposable personal income (DPI)-personal income less personal current taxes-increased $50.3 billion (0.2 percent). Consumer spending increased $145.5 billion (0.... |
| Mar 28 | FEDS Paper: Linear Factor Models and the Estimation of Expected Ret... Cisil Sarisoy , Peter de Goeij, and Bas J.M. Werker This paper analyzes the properties of expected return estimators on individual assets implied by the linear factor models of asset pricing, i.e., the product of β and λ. We provide the ... |