FRED has just added 510 annual series from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates release from the U.S. Census: more state-level data relating to tax exemptions, mean adjusted gross income, and median adjusted gross income.
FRED’s latest feature lets you export your graphs and dashboards directly to PowerPoint. (Here’s CPI and core CPI inflation from 2005 to 2015 as an example.) FYI: Dashboards are custom pages you create in FRED that contain data widgets such as graphs, points, … Continue reading
FRASER has added three Library of Congress collections: Fed Governors Charles S. Hamlin and Eugene Meyer and Chair of the National Monetary Commission Nelson W. Aldrich. Sign up for FRASER’s new monthly newsletter for updates on collections and features.
FRED has added 157 quarterly series from the Z.1 Financial Accounts of the United States. The newly added tables include L.203 Net Interbank Transactions, L.208 Debt Securities, and L.214 Loans. These series are published by the Board of Governors of the … Continue reading
The latest issue of Review covers monetary policy from three directions: fear of “liftoff,” the role of exchange rate rules, and a model of policy before and after the Great Recession.
FRED has just added 222 annual series on health care spending. These series, categorized by disease and by provider, are published by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis under the Health Care Satellite Account program.
FRED has just added 774 series on total quarterly wages for all U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. These series are published by the U.S. Department of Labor under the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program.
A recent Wall Street Journal editorial cites the research of Steve Williamson, economist and VP here at the St. Louis Fed. The essay, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature, examines the efficacy of monetary policy (e.g., QE) in response to financial crises.
This Economic Synopses essay shows that slower “credit creation” and not faster “credit destruction” is behind the recent evolution of U.S. household debt.
This Economic Synopses essay describes the likely debt crisis scenarios for Greece.
