How were cities chosen for Federal Reserve banks? Why did Missouri get two? Our On the Economy blog series covers a paper about the Fed’s founding.
GeoFRED allows you to create, customize and share geographical maps of data found in FRED, our signature database.
The Federal Open Market Committee decided Wednesday, July 27, to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0.25-0.50 percent.
The Center for Household Financial Stability conducts and publishes research on key balance-sheet issues. See the center’s latest.
In his column in The Regional Economist, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard discusses several proposals aimed at addressing the issue of financial institutions that are "too big to fail." He also shares some of his perspectives on the topic.
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In St. Louis, President James Bullard discussed how the St. Louis Fed’s new approach to near-term U.S. macroeconomic and monetary policy projections differs from the old approach.
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Cutting interest rates didn’t boost inflation. Will raising them do so, as Irving Fisher suggested in the last century?
For a long time after the recession, consumers shed debt. But it’s growing again – up 2.1 percent from the first quarter last year.
Our main essay focuses on the Federal Reserve's return to normal monetary policy after seven years of abnormally low interest rates, which were brought on by the financial crisis and Great Recession.
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