FRED has added over 36,400 series from the Board of Governors‘ Financial Accounts of the United States Z.1 release. With this addition, FRED now offers the entire Z.1 release, which includes data on transactions and levels of financial assets and liabilities by sector and financial instrument, full balance sheets, integrated and macroeconomic accounts, and additional details.
Expected growth: 11%. Actual growth: 4.7%. Read why.
FRED has added 29 new series on public pensions. The Quarterly Survey of Public Pensions, which comes from the U.S. Census Bureau, provides national summary data on the revenues, expenditures, and composition of assets of the largest defined benefit public employee pension systems for state and local governments.
Page One Economics gives you the lowdown on current monetary policy in just 5 pages.
Economic Synopses explains the demographics and policy implications behind the “natural rate of interest.”
These 324 series from the U.S. Census Bureau represent the manufactured and non-manufactured commodity imports and exports by destination and origin for the United States as a whole and for each state. You can easily find these new series in the imports and exports release tables.
FRED has added 5 homeownership series from the U.S. Census Bureau that represent the proportion of owner-occupied households broken down by race. You can easily find these new series in this release table.
…for the latest on monetary policy communication, trade, the term premium, and racial gaps.
Will quantitative tightening constrict the economy? Probably not.
A two-part Economic Synopses essay looks at predictions for the next recession.
