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.
On April 18, 1991, FRED began service as an electronic bulletin board. Ever since, FRED has expanded and enhanced the free data it provides. (Read more about FRED’s history here.) We’re celebrating this milestone with a small change to the FRED logo.
This essay considers that more-productive workers are less likely to be unemployed or leave the labor force.
FRED has just added 2 non-employment indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. These indicators are alternative measures of the unemployment rate reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Listen in on a collection of oral histories recorded by Richmond Fed economist Robert Hetzel. Hear from former Fed governors and bank presidents, members of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, U.S. Treasury officials, and others.
GeoFRED’s new homepage has 47 of our most popular maps. These color-coded pre-made maps show county, state, and international data. Just click on the map to see more. Users can build maps from scratch simply by selecting the big green … Continue reading
Prudent policymaking requires an inflation forecast, and the St. Louis Fed provides one: The price pressures measure (PPM) calculates and updates the probability that inflation over the next 12 months will exceed 2.5 percent. As of October 2015, that probability is … 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.
