As a community-engaged bank, the SF Fed seeks out real-time information on economic conditions by engaging with and learning from businesses, community organizations, and local leaders. These ...

Leilani Barnett, senior outreach manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, shares insights from the 4th annual ...

Supply- and Demand-Driven PCE Inflation updates data on the contributions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation from supply-driven versus demand-driven components. This tool is intended ...

Qiana Charles, Regional Executive of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Los Angeles Branch, learned about the ...

Economic activity in the Twelfth District slowed slightly during the April to mid-May reporting period. Employment levels ...

Our research associates who have been working with professional economists in Economic Research over the past two years are ...

Monetary policy in the United States is determined by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), a decisionmaking body that ...

Leilani Barnett, senior outreach manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, shares insights from the 4th annual Idaho Rural Success Summit, highlighting how rural communities in Idaho are ...

The unemployment rate has risen over half a percentage point since the second quarter of 2023. Individual survey data underlying the unemployment rate can help in assessing which labor market ...

We examine how the media’s systematic selection of reporting topics influences household responses to inflation news. In a model where households learn about inflation from news coverage, households ...

Huiyu Li, research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, stated her views on the current economy and the outlook as of April 18, 2024.

Wildfires have been a concern in California for decades. The intensity of these events has increased recently, with particularly large and destructive fire seasons between 2018 and 2021. Analysis ...