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- 2010s
- The new FRED blog
- Government employment in the US
- Unemployment rates by educational attainment
- What's "up" with the labor force participation rate?
- A long-term unemployment problem
- Price indexes for policy
- Loan delinquency
- Long-run inflation expectations
- The decline of manufacturing
- The Taylor Rule
- Gender labor force participation gaps
- The vanishing negative saving rate
- Distance to inflation target
- The ECB's balance sheet continues to contract
- The Fed's "tapering" : A nonevent?
- Labor market conditions : Good or not so good?
- Who holds federal debt?
- Dating the financial crisis using fixed income market yield spreads
- The Beveridge curve
- The peculiar Swiss unemployment rate
- 10-year inflation expectations
- How much do Americans drive?
- Add FRED to your blog or web page
- The rise of education and health services
- The comovement of investment and GDP
- How big is the federal government?
- FOMC projections
- Comparing the U.S. dollar with other currencies
- Mapping international data
- Quitters, public and private
- Debt- and deficit-to-GDP dynamics
- Hours worked and unemployment : United States vs. Germany
- Economic volatility in emerging economies
- Economic policy uncertainty
- Regulatory capital
- Spurious correlation
- Output volatility in small and large countries
- Negative interest rates
- Measuring risk
- CPI component volatility
- The speed of Internet adoption
- Finding old inflation data
- M2 velocity and inflation
- When population drops
- Quits and layoffs
- How much money is the Fed printing?
- Not all books are created equal
- How the exchange rate regime drives inflation
- Inflation in the dollar zone
- The demographics of the activity rate decline
- Not all prices increase
- More prices that deviate from the CPI
- International residential prices
- What's the "normal" unemployment rate?
- Bank failures
- How fast has the unemployment rate declined?
- Of sticky and flexible prices
- Oil prices and business fixed investment in structures
- On financial stress
- The importance of migrant remittances
- Renting and owning homes
- Transportation indexes
- Federal, state, and local expenditures
- Measuring labor costs
- Graphing GDP components with our new release view
- Unemployment by occupation
- What if we priced food in gold?
- Keep the car running : Retail gas sales and prices
- Japan's lost decades (and lost population)
- More-severe unemployment in Southern Europe
- Manufacturing is growing, even when manufacturing jobs are not
- Where are the teenage employees?
- New life (expectancy data) in FRED
- Fertility in FRED
- The velocity of money
- On household debt
- Overcoming the global crisis : USA, Japan, and Italy
- The KC Fed's labor market index in FRED
- Quits by industry
- Components of M2
- "Log in" to regional data
- How did the U.S. economy perform under the pre-Fed gold standard?
- Parallel prices for oil-based fuels
- Tracking the duration of unemployment
- Seasonal interest rates
- Oil and the Norwegian stock market
- The evolution of income inequality
- The sound and fury of gasoline prices
- Euro area "lowflation" becomes "deflation"
- Some economies get stuck
- The many flavors of inflation
- More on churning in the labor market
- The price of fun
- Routine European gasoline
- Does the market believe the change in oil prices is permanent?
- The oil and gas extraction boom gives 101%
- Help wanted…in measuring the availability of jobs
- Employment's ebb and flow
- To rent or not to rent
- The GDP residual
- Going mobile
- A new trend in GDP?
- Labor force participation : Is a trend or a cycle at work?
- Net migration : The Far East is the new Southwest
- How likely is a recession? : (And how fast is a forecast?)
- The many flavors of unemployment
- Uncertain times in Europe
- The mean vs. the median of family income
- A dashboard for a Greek tragedy
- Median income across the United States
- Who's paid the minimum wage?
- Don't be deceived by seasonality
- The demographics of the labor force participation rate
- SNAP!
- The PPI
- Measuring inflation expectations, part I
- Measuring inflation expectations, part II
- Fun fact : Vehicle miles traveled
- Measuring misery
- The Greek tumble
- Public pensions
- Wage stickiness
- Is inflation running hot or cold?
- The real minimum wage
- The changing distribution of house sales
- Inflation's dual cores
- Stress test indicators
- The volatility of GDP's components
- GDP revisions
- Gamble on gambling?
- Government employment in context
- The composition effect in the labor force participation rate
- The diversity of U.S. state economies
- A good use of moving averages
- Labor market tightness
- The value(s) of the minimum wage
- Comparing apples and oranges
- More about comparing oranges
- A bit of religion in the dismal science
- The many faces of the federal funds rate
- Federal funds rate : Target vs. reality
- Time aggregation in FRED
- Which measures of inflation are relevant for policy?
- Higher order moments of unemployment duration
- Inflation decline opens regional inflation differentials
- Canada votes. What's up?
- Presidential inflation beauty contest
- Illiquidity in the bond market
- The changing composition of U.S. trade
- Halloween candy
- The Phillips curve after the Great Recession
- Contrasting the U.S. and German unemployment rates
- The Great Recession and trade collapse : Comparing Missouri and the nation
- Is the PPI going crazy?
- The unemployment bathtub
- Foreign exchange intervention
- Turkey price inflation
- The evolution of employment costs in the private and public sectors
- Books or toys?
- Have earnings kept up with growth?
- The Canadian dollar and the price of oil
- Shopping lines : The evolution of retail in the U.S.
- Christmas in Connecticut
- Riding the macroeconomic fluctuations
- The elusive 2% inflation target
- Bond yields shaken and/or stirred
- Business lending in recessions
- Changing demographics
- The geography of income inequality
- Measuring and comparing local economies : Memphis vs. Nashville
- How healthy is the labor market, really?
- High school geography class
- Four shades of inflation risk
- The long and the short of FOMC projections
- It's tough to make predictions…especially about the future
- Mapping the young and the old
- The trend in teenage fertility
- The state of median household income
- New York City vs. suburban incomes
- The trouble with food and energy
- Two shades of coffee
- GDP recovery after 1933, 1982, and 2009
- Net migration : The people in (and out of) your neighborhood
- The composition of federal tax receipts
- Wage paradox at the industry level
- Tracking more Fed policy tools
- St Louis adds 15,600…no, wait…22,400 jobs in 2015 : Be aware of data revisions
- Some educational effects on employment
- Replicating the Japanese Phillips Curve
- April is National Poetry Month…even for FRED
- A plodding dollar : The recent decrease in the velocity of money
- Cliffhanger : Personal income in 2012
- FRED: Don't leave home without it
- Celebrating 25 years : FRED birthday fun facts
- Celebrating 25 years : The dawn of FRED
- Celebrating 25 years : FRED was born of woman
- Celebrating 25 years : FRED's oldest data
- Celebrating 25 years : The road ahead
- GeoFRED reveals the aging of the world
- Job polarization
- China's trade surplus since 2000
- When country boundaries change
- More on boundary changes
- Why is the unemployment rate not decreasing?
- Grandfather of FRED
- Energy demand and supply
- Quits are recovering
- Manufacturing: Up? Down?
- A gauge on the minimum wage
- FRED remembers Bob Rasche
- The declining wage component in GDP
- Income differences across countries : Is the gap closing?
- Local unemployment dynamics in the Great Recession
- FRED is looking good
- Seeking, missing, finding, and filling jobs
- Disability within the labor force participation rate
- The continued rise of humans
- TED on FRED
- Job JOLTS : How long does it take to hire someone?
- To your health! : The price of French wine
- Of the people : Federal and local government employment
- Consols: The never-ending bonds
- To what degree do we have degrees?
- The equity premium
- S'weird in Switzerland
- Hiring at firms, large and small
- $7.25 of pay keeps the FLSA away
- Job volatility among races
- A counterclaim on countercyclical policy
- Measure for measure : Judging the economy
- Juggling jobs
- No space in the overhead bin : The rise of the airline "load factor"
- Testing theory : Marginal product and wages
- Cargo is cloudy for planes, ships slip and trains don't gain, but trucks are in luck and pipelines are fine
- Negative investment?
- Brexit in dollars per pound
- Shaking things up in China
- Wages with benefits
- Friction in oil markets
- Government transfers to households : From 1947 to 1966 to now
- Sources of household income
- A marginal look at bank margins
- Engel's law is still good food for thought
- You can build a house on paper, but you don't always make it brick
- FRED in North Korea
- Show me older men : A picture of employment cycles and demographics
- Homeowners slide and renters rise
- Part-time workers : Willing or not?
- Halloween candy excesses
- The problem with U-U
- Local economic conditions at election time
- The continuous rise of the stock market
- The convergence of income across U.S. states
- Trends and cycles
- Holiday jewels
- Retail instalment* purchase patterns from the 1940s
- The puzzle of real median household income
- Investing in FRED
- Employment in coal
- Capacity utilization rate and the business cycle
- Price growth at the tails
- Election surprises and exchange rates
- Christmas with FRED
- Moving in your neighborhood
- Good news for women in the labor force?
- Something changed in Black unemployment
- What's the story behind who's working?
- 2020s
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2014-2024
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRED Blog. 2014-2024. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/9359, accessed on April 6, 2025.