Blog Posts

How do the farmers, ranchers and food producers view climate risk? In a recent roundtable with President Mary Daly, CEOs from the Twelfth District’s agricultural sector shared their insights on managing climate risk.

Our most recent Fed Listens event brought researchers and leaders together to explore how better supporting care work can contribute to a more inclusive economic recovery. Here are four takeaways from the discussion.

How is the Federal Reserve working to bring inflation back down? Research Director Sylvain Leduc discusses the Fed’s recent policy decision in our May 2022 FOMC Rewind Live video.

While insufficient access to financial systems is understood as a problem for people with low incomes, SF Fed senior researcher in Community Development, Rocio Sanchez-Moyano, looks at how people of color and immigrant communities struggle for financial equity, independent of income levels.

Robust and meaningful engagement with the people we serve isn’t a ‘nice-to-have.’ It’s a ‘must-have.’ SF Fed Senior Vice President of Public Engagement, Laura Choi is developing effective ways for two-way dialogue to listen and represent all communities across the Twelfth District.

The San Francisco Fed’s Economic Research Department congratulates Aina Krupinski Puig and Hina Usman as the authors of the essays selected in our first “Unlocking Our Potential” graduate student essay contest. “These essays help shed new light on the impact of gender and racial inequities, which have a real economic cost for every American,” said SF Fed Research Director Sylvain Leduc.

What was the Fed’s May 2022 decision? And how does it affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.

The American Economic Association named Oleg Itskhoki the best young American economist for 2022. This John Bates Clark medalist contributes to the San Francisco Fed through his work as a visiting scholar in Economic Research.

How did the strong labor market and inflation factor into the Fed’s March 2022 decision? Research Director Sylvain Leduc breaks down the policy announcement and gives some context in our first FOMC Rewind Live video.

Rising rents account for a significant portion of recent inflation. Estimates of how rent inflation typically responds to two leading indicators—current asking rents and current house prices—can help forecast the path of overall inflation for the next two years.