FRED has added 14 quarterly national accounts series published by the Cabinet Office of Japan. These series consist of estimates of real GDP and its main components.
FRED has added 14 quarterly national accounts series published by the Cabinet Office of Japan. These series consist of estimates of real GDP and its main components.
FRASER has the history of women’s work: careers, wages, working conditions, labor laws, and more for 1918-1983.
The latest from Page One Economics covers the basics of insurance.
These 3143 series on county homeownership rates come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The homeownership rate is computed by dividing the number of households who own their residence by the total number of occupied housing units.
Our new page provides easy-to-read research on issues related to employment.
1951’s Treasury-Fed Accord established the Federal Reserve’s independence. View the timeline on FRASER.
FRED has added 204 monthly series on corporate bond yield curves based on methodology developed by the U.S. Treasury. These high-quality market (HQM) yields are used to discount future pension liabilities as required by the Pension Protection Act. The HQM yield curve uses data from a set of corporate bonds rated AAA, AA, or A that accurately represent the high-quality corporate bond market. Yields are projected for corporate bonds beyond 30 years maturity.
U.S. firms have adjusted well to the recent appreciation of the dollar.
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The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the December 2016 vintage. This database, designed for the empirical analysis of “big data,” is described in detail in a St. Louis Fed working paper by Michael W. McCracken and Serena Ng.