The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the August 2015 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.
The latest data may not always give you the clearest picture. This FRED Blog post uses a moving average to smooth out weekly unemployment insurance claims.
This Economic Synopses essay discusses whether financial engineering can distribute the pecuniary risk of medical research—and play a role in curing disease.
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According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s “advance estimate,” real gross domestic product, the value of the production of goods and services in the U.S., increased at an annual rate of 2.32 percent in the second quarter of 2015. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.64 percent.
FRED has just added 30 quarterly and annual series on hours worked. These series, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, include both wage earners and salaried workers and are divided into sectors.
The FRED monthly database for macroeconomic research (FRED-MD) now includes the June 2015 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.
FRED has just added 168 series from the Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey and 64 series from the Nonmanufacturing Business Outlook Survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. These releases include diffusion indexes and the survey results used to construct those diffusion indexes.
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