Economic Synopses reveals the weekly cycle of Midwestern gas prices.
FRED has added 183 annual series from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on minimum wage workers. These data cover hourly paid workers age 16 and older with earnings at or below the prevailing federal minimum wage across various educational … Continue reading
Lawrence H. Summers gave the 2016 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture on “Secular Stagnation and Monetary Policy.”
FRED has just added more data published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Real Trade-Weighted Value of the Dollar by U.S. State (50 monthly series): These indexes calculate the inflation-adjusted value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of countries to which U.S. … Continue reading
Our Annual Report for 2015 looks at new directions in monetary policy, with messages from our Bank president and chair of the board of directors and a look at our work and our people.
FRED has added 324 quarterly aggregates of gross domestic product (GDP) from the Eurostat database. These data cover real and nominal GDP for the euro area, European Union, and European countries. Data for the euro area countries are presented with … Continue reading
The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the March 2016 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.
From Page One Economics: New and improved smart credit cards provide greater security.
From Economic Synopses: Death rates declined in the 20th century for most countries. But not for Russia.
In the latest Review: Despite global growth, few developing countries make progress catching up to the income levels in the U.S. or other advanced economies.