Economic Synopses tracks the ups and down of debt in St. Louis, Louisville, Memphis, and Little Rock.
Federal Reserve Economic Data
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FRED Users, Your Content Just Got Better
We’ve made improvements to FRED user accounts to make it easier to interact with all your content. The user account homepage offers you a comprehensive view and more choices for displaying and interacting with your content.
- View and access all your content in one unified space
- Add or preview a graph right from the content page
- Organize your content page according to your needs
- Enjoy the auto-update feature for graphs
- Receive links and notifications for FREDcast®, our econ forecasting game
Stay tuned for more updates and improvements in the coming months.
And, as always, check out our helpful tutorials and FAQs for some extra guidance.
Posted in User Account Announcements
Privacy, Cash, and Crypto
The latest from Early Edition Review considers privacy for purchases.
Why Are U.S. Bond Yields So High?
Find out here.
FRED Adds Cryptocurrency Series
FRED has added four series on the prices of different cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin. The price data are updated daily and span from as early as 2014 to the present. All data were obtained from Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange company, whose overall digital asset performance is depicted in the above graph (Coinbase Index).
Posted in FRED Announcements
FDIC on FRASER
Browse over 800 statements and speeches from 1935-1990 to learn how FDIC bank regulators crafted and communicated policy.
Posted in Research Announcements, Top Story 3
Recession Signals
From Economic Synopses: May’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.8%, the lowest in 18 years. Does this tell us something about the next recession?
FRED Adds County Wages
FRED has added 812 annual series on mean real household wages adjusted by cost of living. Mean household wages are obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and are further adjusted for cost of living using regional price parities from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Posted in FRED Announcements
China’s Creativity
From Economic Synopses: A closer look at the rapid rise in China’s patents.
New to FRASER
FDIC records and research, including a study of bank failures in the 1920s.
Posted in Research Announcements, Top Story 1