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Last Chance To Take Our Economic Data Survey

Posted on October 21, 2014

Friday, Nov. 14, is the last day to take our data survey. The St. Louis Fed would greatly appreciate your insights on how to improve access and delivery of economic data. Access this brief survey here.

Posted in FRED Announcements, Research Announcements, Top Story 1

FRASER’s 1000 Tweets, 1000 Followers

Posted on October 17, 2014

“Oct 6, 1979: FOMC fundamentally changes its policy. Read the minutes… Infographic of US energy use in 1970… 1947 bulletin examines women’s jobs over 7 decades…” Be a part of the one thousand. Follow FRASER’s twitter feed for a daily dose of economic history.

Posted in Research Announcements, Top Story 3

FRED Adds Labor Market Conditions Index

Posted on October 6, 2014

This new monthly series from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System examines the health of the U.S. labor market. The Labor Market Conditions Index is derived from a dynamic factor model that extracts the primary common variation from 19 labor market indicators.

Posted in FRED Announcements, Research Announcements, Top Story 5

FRED’s More Flexible Now

Posted on September 30, 2014

Need employment data, but just for women and not in the government or education sectors? FRED’s updated tagging system makes it easier to filter and browse data series: Narrow your search by selecting tags you know are helpful and excluding tags you know you don’t need.

Posted in FRED Announcements, Research Announcements, Top Story 1

FRED Adds 220 Series of International Residential Property Prices

Posted on September 29, 2014

These 220 quarterly series published by the Bank for International Settlements track the prices of residential properties and measure the rates at which those prices are changing. In addition to nominal prices and growth rates, the data set also includes real versions of these series.

Posted in FRED Announcements, Research Announcements, Top Story 5

3Q Review

Posted on September 15, 2014

“Step back from the complexity of actual money markets and imagine an economy in which every payment is made in cash…” Read “Liquidity: Meaning, Measurement, Management” by Nobel laureate Robert Lucas (and four other articles) in the latest issue of Review.

Posted in Research Announcements, Top Story 3

Good IDEAS

Posted on September 9, 2014

September 9, 2014: The IDEAS bibliographic database surpassed 1.5 million online documents. IDEAS has been and continues to be the largest freely available electronic database of economic content.

Posted in Research Announcements, Top Story 1

Federal Debt Series Error Corrected

Posted on September 9, 2014

FRED users: Two data series were affected by an error from Sep. 5 through Sep. 8, 2014. We posted incorrect data for Federal Debt Held by the Public, which also affected Federal Debt Held by Agencies and Trusts. We thank the FRED users who alerted us to this error, which was corrected the afternoon of Sep. 9, 2014.

Posted in FRED Announcements

Interpret with Caution

Posted on September 9, 2014

Analysts and journalists often emphasize initial unemployment insurance claims to describe the bigger unemployment picture. This Economic Synopses essay illuminates the limitations of that approach.

Posted in Research Announcements, Top Story 3

FRED Adds 6,164 Series on Personal Income

Posted on August 13, 2014

These series from the BEA measure income received by all persons from all sources. The per capita series divide total personal income by the Census Bureau’s annual midyear population estimates.

 

Posted in Top Story 5

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