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

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

President Daly shared her latest insights on both the US and Alaska economy with Alaska Public Media news host Ava White.

It’s a pleasure to be back in Alaska and to be here at the Anchorage Economic Summit. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time. I see many familiar faces, people I have known for a long time ...

In 2024, the San Francisco Fed and the Federal Reserve System Innovation Office launched the EmergingTech Economic Research Network (EERN) to support a better understanding of how new technologies ...

Twelfth District Business Sentiment presents two qualitative indexes that track the views of business leaders across the western United States—the SF Fed Business Sentiment Index and the SF Fed ...

Submissions due by August 8, 2025, for the Annual Conference Micro-Macro Labor Economics, to be held in San Francisco on Friday, December 12, 2025.

Workers with a college degree typically earn substantially more than workers with less education. This so-called college wage premium increased for several decades, but it has been flat to down in ...

Extreme heat decreases labor productivity in sectors like construction, where much work occurs outdoors. Because construction is an important component of investment, lost productivity today will slow ...

In its sixth iteration, the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice data show that consumers used cash for 26 percent of all payments, and that it is used for nearly 47 percent of payments under $10.

In its fifth iteration, the Diary of Consumer Payment Choice data show that cash continues to be used extensively for small-value purchases - representing nearly half of all payments under $10 and 42 ...