FRED has added 67 new series to its Large Bank Credit Card and Mortgage Data release. The data are reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Fed uses information collected by the Federal Reserve through a mandatory … Continue reading
FRED has added 1502 series of Producer Price Index (PPI) data by commodity and industry. PPIs are reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. They measure the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of … Continue reading
FRED has added 1 data series, reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, measuring policy rate uncertainty. The Kansas City Fed’s Measure of Policy Rate Uncertainty (KC PRU) is a daily measure of market-based uncertainty regarding where short-term … Continue reading
FRED has added 8 data series from the Ellieroth and Michaud (EM) dataset of monthly quit and layoff rates: (1) how frequently U.S. workers who leave employment have either quit or have been laid off and (2) how frequently those … Continue reading
FRED has added 1 data series reported by Fannie Mae for the Home Purchase Sentiment Index (HPSI). The HPSI is a composite index designed to track consumers’ housing-related attitudes, intentions, and perceptions, using six questions from the National Housing Survey … Continue reading
Visualizing home prices This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Home prices in the United States” discusses how affordable homes have been for the typical … Continue reading
Visualizing labor market tightness This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Measuring labor market tightness with FRED” discusses how to combine two data series from … Continue reading
Visualizing the trade balance This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “Geopolitics and international technology trade” discusses how geopolitical tensions offer a relevant context for … Continue reading
Visualizing the consumption of goods and services This handout provides instructions on building the graph below and includes writing prompts for out-of-class assignments. From the FRED Blog The post “The rise of services in the US economy” discusses the high … Continue reading