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.
New to FRED: 384 monthly series from the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey (TSSOS) & Texas Retail Outlook Survey (TROS) from the Dallas Fed.
FRED has added 2 daily series from the Board of Governors: interest on required reserves (IORR) and interest on excess reserves (IOER). As stated by the source, the IOER series gives the Federal Reserve an additional tool for the conduct … Continue reading
Revisit the Financial Crisis of 2007-09 with this timeline of key discussions and actions to mitigate the long-term economic impact of the Crisis.
FRED has added 6 new series of daily overnight bank funding data from the New York Fed. The overnight bank funding rate (OBFR) is calculated as the volume-weighted median of overnight federal funds transactions and Eurodollar transactions. The volume-weighted median … Continue reading
FRED has added 272 monthly series from the Dallas Fed’s Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey. The headline series cover respondents’ outlook on general business activity and on their own companies.
FRED has added two quarterly GDP-based recession indicators produced by James Hamilton. The first is the GDP-based recession indicator index, which measures the probability of U.S. recession. The second series is a set of dates of U.S. recessions as inferred by … Continue reading
FRED has just added 3 monthly series that estimate the level of economic uncertainty, as revealed in newspapers, for Japan, South Korea, and Russia. The source of these series is Economic Policy Uncertainty.
Employed, unemployed, discouraged? In or out of the labor force? Frictional, structural, cyclical? Page One Economics provides the answers.
From Economic Synopses: Tighter lending standards pushed down loan growth during the 2007-09 recession.
