Trends Archive

Economic Trends Archive

Banking & Financial Institutions

Business Loan Markets
FDIC Funds
Fourth District Bank Holding Companies
Banking Structure
Business Loan Markets
Fourth District Community Banks
Fourth District Community Banks
Business Loan Markets
Mortgage Lending
Fourth District Bank Holding Companies
Fourth District Community Banks
Business Loan Markets
Foreign Banks in the United States
Fourth District Bank Holding Companies
Fourth District Community Banks
Business Loan Markets
FDIC Funds
A Close Look at Fourth District Bank Holding Companies
A Close Look at Fourth District Community Banks
Banking Structure
Business Loan Markets
Fourth District Banking Conditions

Economic Conditions

Real Income Growth across Metropolitan Areas

Economic Growth

Patent Trends in the Fourth District
The Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area
Business Establishments
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area
Fourth District Employment Conditions, August
Poverty and Income in the Fourth District
Regional Patenting Activity
State Per Capita Personal Income

Economy in Perspective

That Giant Sucking Sound
This Old House
A Capital Idea…
Air Supply
Living in a World of Contingency...
Grist for the mill...
Housing Haikus?
Tick Tock
Same numbers, different stories?
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Homeownership at any price
Liquidity
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due
Economic Trends in Perspective

Financial Markets, Money, & Monetary Policy

Steady on Policy Rate, but Alert to Inflationary Pressures
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
The Yield Curve
Supplying Liquidity: The Tried and True and the New
The Yield Curve
Down Another Seventy-Five
What is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
Another Move, but with Less Surprise
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
The Funds Rate, Liquidity, and the Term Auction Facility
Dollar Depreciations and Inflation
Trade and the Dollar
Inflation Expectations
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
Mortgage Lending
Financial Markets: Settling but Cautious
Is It the Best of Times or the Worst?
Third-Quarter GDP
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
The Well-Anticipated Rate Cut
Jumbo Mortgages and Mortgage Market Conditions
Reserve Market Rates and Discount Window Lending
Household Financial Conditions
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
The Long-Anticipated Rate Cut
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
A Step Towards Neutral
When Did Inflation Persistence Change?
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
Assessing New Information: What’s Permanent, What’s Not?
Monetary Policy: What’s in a Few Words?
The Yield Curve's Prognosis for Economic Growth
Monetary Policy: Holding Steady
Household Financial Conditions
The Yield Curve's Prognosis for Economic Growth
Monetary Policy: No Surprise Here
Monetary Policy in the United States, the Euro Area, and Japan
An Update from the Yield Curve
Home Prices
Monetary Policy: A Statement of Confidence?
The Yield Curve's Tale
Is Inflation Changing Its Ways?
The January 31 FOMC Meeting
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
Monetary Policy Stays Put
Monetary Aggregates
What Is the Yield Curve Telling Us?
Providing Liquidity
Market Expectations of Policy Rates
Interest Rates, Yields, Outstanding Debt, and Consumer Attitudes
The Yield Curve's Predictive Power

Foreclosure

Foreclosures in Ohio

Housing

Housing Values
Mortgage Delinquencies in Fourth District Metropolitan Areas
Midwest Housing Markets

Inflation & Prices

May Price Statistics
April Price Statistics
March Price Statistics
February Price Statistics
January Price Statistics
December Price Statistics
November Price Statistics
Dollar Depreciations and Inflation
Inflation Expectations
October Price Statistics
September Price Statistics
August Price Statistics
July Price Statistics
June Price Statistics
May Price Statistics
April Price Statistics
March Price Statistics
February Price Statistics
January Price Statistics
Is Inflation Changing Its Ways?
The Cost of Labor as an Inflation Indicator
December Price Statistics
Inflation Expectations
Trimmed Mean CPI Inflation
November Price Statistics

International Markets & Foreign Exchange

Exchange–Rate Pass–Through to Import Prices
Bifurcation?
Should the Fed Prop Up the Buck?
Are We Importing Inflation?
Chinese Inflation and the Renminbi
Monetary Policy and the Dollar?s Depreciation
Dollar Depreciations and Inflation
Trade and the Dollar
Is It the Best of Times or the Worst?
Head'n South
U.S. International Investment Position
The Dollar’s Depreciation and Inflation
Sovereign Wealth Funds
Is Foreign Exchange Intervention a Good Idea?
Do Workers Benefit from Globalization?
Deficits and the Dollar
Asian Reserves
Will the Euro Supplant the Dollar?
China s Economy
Japanese Monetary Policy
The Yen Carry Trade
Current Account Sustainability

Labor Markets, Unemployment, & Wages

Real Income Growth across Metropolitan Areas
The Employment Situation, May
Labor Turnover and Employment in Different U.S. Regions
Fourth District Employment Conditions, March
Gender Differences in Employment Statistics
Fourth District Employment Conditions, February
Fourth District Employment Conditions, January
The Employment Situation, March
Does the Recent Trend in Labor Demand Presage Recession?
Preliminary Employment Data Might Miss a Recession Onset
Labor Force Participation in the United States and Ohio
The Employment Situation, February
Fourth District Employment Conditions, December
The Employment Situation, January
The Ups and Downs in Regional Employment Statistics
Manufacturing Employment
The Employment Situation, December
Fourth District Employment Conditions, October
The Employment Situation, November
Fourth District Employment Conditions, September
Women in the Labor Force
The Employment Situation, October
Union Membership
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Statistical Area
Fourth District Employment Conditions, August
The Employment Situation, September
Labor Turnover
Fourth District Employment Conditions, July
The Employment Situation, August
Revisions to the Employment Report
Younger Workers and Summertime Employment
Fourth District Employment Conditions, June
The Employment Situation, July
How Do Americans Spend Their Time?
Fourth District Employment Conditions, May
The Employment Situation, June
Fourth District Employment Conditions, April
Manufacturing Employment
Employment and Firm Size over the Business Cycle
The Employment Situation, May
The Youngest Baby Boomers’ Experience in the Labor Market
Fourth District Employment Conditions, March
The Employment Situation, April
Fourth District Employment Conditions, February
Employment Flows and Firm Size
Labor Costs
Fourth District Employment Conditions, January
The Employment Situation, March
Minimum Wage Earners
Construction Activity and Employment
Women in the Workforce
The Employment Situation, February
Job Creation and Job Destruction
Extended Mass Layoffs
The Metal Working Industry
Employment during the Recovery
The Employment Situation, January
Fourth District Employment Conditions, December
Employment Cost Index
Job-to-Job Movers
The Employment Situation, December
Fourth District Employment Conditions, November
Labor Turnover

Manufacturing

The Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area
The Metal Working Industry
Ohio s Automobile Industry

Metropolitan Area Profile

The Erie Metropolitan Statistical Area
The Cleveland Metropolitan Statistical Area
The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area
The Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area

Trade

Ohio Exports

US Economy

Housing Values
Where’s the Spillover from Housing?
Real GDP First-Quarter 2008 Preliminary Estimate
The Employment Situation, April
Real GDP 2008:Q1 Advance Estimate
What Interest Rate Spreads Can Tell Us about Mortgage Markets
Mortgage Delinquencies in Fourth District Metropolitan Areas
Recession: Are We or Aren't We?
Real GDP: Fourth-Quarter 2007 Final Estimate
Does the Recent Trend in Labor Demand Presage Recession?
Home Price Indexes
Preliminary Employment Data Might Miss a Recession Onset
Housing Doldrums
The Employment Situation, February
Real GDP 2007: Fourth-Quarter Preliminary Estimate
The Pass-through of Oil Prices to Gasoline Prices
Real GDP Fourth-Quarter 2007 Advance Estimate
Real GDP Fourth-Quarter 2007 Advance Estimate
Housing Markets
A Review of the Latest Business Cycle
Third-Quarter 2007 Final GDP
Business Establishments
The Housing Market
Third-Quarter Preliminary GDP Release
Women in the Labor Force
Housing Cycles
Union Membership
Financial Markets: Settling but Cautious
Third-Quarter GDP
Jumbo Mortgages and Mortgage Market Conditions
Who Cares about the Housing Market?
The Near-Term Economic Outlook
Housing Markets
Real GDP: Preliminary Estimate
The Advance Real GDP Report
Housing
Technology Investment
Real GDP Growth
Home Prices
Business Investment
Subprime Statistics
Household Wealth and Consumption
A Tale of Two Houses
A Mixed Message on Manufacturing
Is Manufacturing Going the Way of Agriculture?
The Budget and Economic Outlook
High-Technology Manufacturing
Industrial Production Closes 2006 in Fine Form
Some Say Housing Numbers Encouraging
New Cities Added to Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
ISM Report on Business Activity
Housing
Durable Goods Orders and Personal Income and Consumption Reports
Revisions to Real GDP

Economic Trends is published by the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Views stated in Economic Trends are those of individuals in the Research Department and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Materials may be reprinted provided that the source is credited.

If you'd like to subscribe to a free e-mail service that tells you when Trends is updated, click here.

ISSN 0748-2922