State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will host its 2025 Asia Economic Policy Conference (AEPC) on November 20-21, 2025, ...

In a recent webinar, small business development centers shared how they and the small businesses they serve have incorporated GenAI into their work and the lessons they’ve learned.

Both the magnitude and the pace of monetary policy tightening in the euro area during 2022-23 were historically large and ...

Information the San Francisco Fed collects from businesses and community sources for the Beige Book provides timely insights ...

Zero Lower Bound Probabilities at Different Time Horizons uses prices of fixed-income derivatives to create a daily measure of the likelihood that future short-term interest rates will be constrained ...

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 ...

Monetary policy is forward-looking and dependent on policymakers’ economic outlook. When the outlook is deemed highly uncertain, policymakers may put more weight on incoming data when making monetary ...

Watch the video Remarks as prepared for delivery. Introduction Good morning. It’s an honor to be part of this esteemed panel celebrating Ben Bernanke’s contributions to economics. I will discuss Ben’s ...

Inflation still lies somewhat above the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal after slowing significantly since its spring 2022 peak. Analysis shows that two labor market indicators—the ratios of job vacancies to ...

I’ve had the benefit of working at the Federal Reserve during the two longest expansions on record—the 1990s and the pre-pandemic period. During both, remarkable things occurred. Businesses thrived, ...