Review offers analysis on unemployment duration, deriving Nowcasts from news, business partnerships, and optimal tax policy.
Review offers analysis on unemployment duration, deriving Nowcasts from news, business partnerships, and optimal tax policy.
From Economic Synopses: Foreign demand for U.S. Treasuries may be crucial in keeping a cap on U.S. borrowing costs.
These 3143 series on net county migration come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. To build this data set, the American Community Survey asked members of households whether they lived in the same residence 1 year ago. For those who lived in a different residence, the survey collected information on their previous residence. Each positive (negative) observation represents the total number of people who have moved in (moved out) of the county for the observation period.
Page One Economics explains the often-misunderstood trade deficit.
From Economic Synopses: A closer look at who pays taxes and how much.
Insight on econ themes & data. Recent posts cover hyperinflation and federal debt.
FRED will no longer include data from State Street: On November 10, 2016, their PriceStats Inflation Series will be deleted from the FRED database, Excel Add-in, mobile apps, APIs, and all other FRED services.
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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.
From Economic Synopses: How fast are prices rising? It depends on what you’re buying.
From Economic Synopses: Slow-growth Latin America gets more investment than fast-growth East Asia.