Could popular weight-loss drugs affect demand for some foods and thus affect regional agriculture? The Beige Book report from ...

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by just 29,000 in September. Monthly payroll changes, however, are volatile and often revised, so a single report might not reveal underlying labor market ...

The Federal Reserve serves as the nation's central bank, committed to promoting a sound financial system and healthy economy. Guided by a dual mandate from Congress, we strive to pursue price ...

Why are underlying inflation measures helpful? Measures of underlying inflation are useful in separating inflation signal from relative price noise, and in such a way that they are good predictors of ...

A new tool from the Atlanta Fed lets you be a central banker. The Taylor Rule Utility generates current and historical fed funds rate prescriptions from either John Taylor's original rule or an ...

The Unemployment Claims Monitor (UCM) tracks initial unemployment claims and continued unemployment claims reported by the US Department of Labor (DOL). The UCM contains a historical record of several ...

One of the defining features of today's US labor market is the relatively low level of "churn," or movements in and out of jobs. Figure 1 illustrates this "low-hire-low-fire" equilibrium. The hiring ...

Developing algorithms for estimating high frequency principal components (PCs) for monthly macroeconomic data mixed with either weekly or daily data, the author finds that when suitably aggregated ...

Using the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), this paper explores reasons behind the falling birth rate in the United States. The analysis confirms that newer generations of women are less likely ...