The St. Louis MSA is in the top 6% in real per capita income. Read more in the current issue of Review.
From Economic Synopses: The evolution of our local wage distribution.
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From Economic Synopses: Longer unemployment means larger losses in future earnings.
FRED offers two new datasets on banks supervised by the Federal Reserve Districts: total assets and number of banks. These data differ from the typical, historical data by classifying banks according to the District that has supervisory responsibility for it, rather than using the location of the bank’s headquarters. The latest edition of The Regional Economist compares the two methods and explains the differences shown in the above graph.
In 1776, Adam Smith explained why some nations are wealthier. Today, Page One Economics explains how productivity raises the standard of living.
From Economic Synopses: Proposed changes to the tax code will have a variety of effects across states.
From Economic Synopses: The longer a worker is unemployed, the larger the loss in earnings.
FRED dashboards now let you change the dimensions of widgets, which provides you the perfect opportunity, let’s say, to present some of the 38 new series in FRED from the Bank for International Settlements.
FRASER now has the Bank and Quotation Record, a companion to the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, with securities prices and related information, 1928-1963.
