SF Fed Blog
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Charting Their Course: Research Associates Head to Grad School
As they finish two years of working with the SF Fed Economic Research Department, several research associates will continue their academic careers through graduate studies.
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How Twelfth District Businesses are Rapidly Embracing GenAI
Emerging technologies are top of mind for Twelfth District businesses. Hear how they are using GenAI and their expectations for boosting workforce productivity.
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Pandemic Savings Are Gone: What’s Next for U.S. Consumers?
U.S. household savings rose and fell at unprecedented rates following the onset of the pandemic recession. Updated estimates suggest that these excess savings have been fully spent. However, consumer spending shows no signs of losing steam, raising questions about its future path.
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Advisory Council Observations: April 2024
The members of the SF Fed’s Advisory Councils provide valuable perspectives from around the Twelfth District. In this edition of Advisory Council Observations, we share what we learned at our most recent council meetings.
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What’s Driving Inflation? Our New Data Page Gives a Detailed Look
Understanding inflation beyond the headline number is important for policymakers and economists. Adding to other SF Fed indicators that disentangle the key drivers of personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation each month, we have launched a new data page that breaks down each inflation reading into the different groups of goods and services that contribute to it.
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Staying on Course: Reducing Inflation along a Nonlinear Phillips Curve
New data continue to follow the path of a nonlinear Phillips curve constructed in earlier work showing the empirical relationship between inflation and the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies.
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Advisory Council Observations: The SF Fed’s Advisory Councils Provide Insights about the Twelfth District’s Economy
The members of the SF Fed’s Advisory Councils provide valuable perspectives from around the Twelfth District. In this edition of Advisory Council Observations, we share what we learned at our most recent council meetings.
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Economic Letter Countdown: Hot Topics from 2023
With the new year right around the corner, here’s a countdown of our own to close out 2023. Check out the list of our most popular FRBSF Economic Letter topics of the year, featuring research insights from San Francisco Fed economists.
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Data Revisions and Pandemic-Era Excess Savings
U.S. household savings rose and fell at unprecedented rates since the onset of the pandemic recession. Comprehensive data revisions by the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that households continue to hold significantly more savings than previously estimated. Our updated estimates suggest that more than $400 billion of accumulated excess savings remains in the aggregate economy, and those funds are likely to continue being drawn down into the first half of 2024.
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Latino Communities and the Economy
Representing 31% of the Twelfth District population, Latinos are a vital part of our District’s economy–and the U.S. economy at large. The economic contributions of Latino communities to our country are enormous, wide-ranging, and rapidly growing. At the San Francisco Fed, we study and share what we’ve learned about the economic impact of Latino communities […]