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Press Releases
Press Release
Cleveland Fed appoints Elizabeth Marengo as chief human resources officer
03.13.2026
Marengo, a Cleveland native, has more than 20 years of leadership experience across human resources, talent strategy, and organizational development.
Press Release
Cleveland Fed’s Hammack: Dollar’s status depends on rule of law, effective capital markets, and central bank independence
03.06.2026
President’s Speech: Cleveland Fed’s Hammack: Dollar’s status depends on rule of law, effective capital markets, and central bank independence.
Press Release
Fed survey: Small business optimism wanes as performance metrics hold steady
03.03.2026
Nearly half of firms sourced at least some inputs from abroad, and most say those inputs cost more than in 2024. The share that applied at online lenders increased for the fifth consecutive survey year.
Press Release
Hit hard by historic rent inflation, lower-income tenants lost 25% of their post-rent purchasing power from 2019-2023
03.02.2026
The median renter saw zero growth in post-rent purchasing power during that period, but the bottom third lost more than 7 percenter per year, according to a new Cleveland Fed report.
Press Release
Some people who don’t use banks still see value in them – and say alternatives aren’t perfect substitutes
02.23.2026
The report summarizes the results of focus groups of unbanked and underbanked individuals in Cleveland and Houston, where they discussed how they manage their finances and their views toward financial service providers.
Speeches
Speeches
Remarks for the Panel: On the Safe-Haven Status of the Dollar
03.06.2026 |
1:30 PM EST |
In Person
Beth M. Hammack—President and Chief Executive Officer—Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—2026 US Monetary Policy Forum, Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York, NY
Speeches
Recipe for a Thriving US Economy: Strong Banks, Patient Policy, and an Independent yet Accountable Central Bank
02.10.2026 |
12:00 PM EST |
In Person
Beth M. Hammack—President and Chief Executive Officer—Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—Ohio Bankers League 2026 Economic Summit—Columbus, Ohio
Speeches
Opening Remarks
11.20.2025 |
8:45 AM EST |
In Person
Beth M. Hammack—President and Chief Executive Officer—Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—2025 Financial Stability Conference: Financial Stability in a Time of Rapid Economic and Technological Change—Cleveland, Ohio
Speeches
Balancing Act: The Dual Mandate on an Economic Tightrope
11.06.2025 |
12:00 PM EST |
In Person
Beth M. Hammack—President and Chief Executive Officer—Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland—The Economic Club of New York—New York, New York
Speeches
The Cleveland Fed’s Excellent Community Development Adventure
07.16.2025 |
9:15 AM EDT |
In Person
Beth M. Hammack | President and Chief Executive Officer | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cuyahoga County Community College, Corporate College 20-Year Anniversary Celebration | Warrensville Hts., OH
Events
Event
Fed Talk: College Degrees and the Labor Market: Long-Run Trends and Recent Challenges for Young Graduates
03.20.2026
Join us for a discussion of how labor market dynamics have changed over the last several decades and the hurdles that young college graduates are now facing.
Event
LAEF Conference 2026: Demographics in the 21st Century
04.30.2026–05.01.2026
The Federal Bank of Cleveland and Finn Kydland’s Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at UCSB announce an academic conference highlighting demographic work at the frontier of economic sciences.
Event
RISE Conference 2026
09.17.2026–09.18.2026
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland will host the RISE Conference 2026, bringing together researchers and policymakers to advance the knowledge frontier of regime-switching and nonlinear macroeconomic modeling
Event
Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics Conference 2026
09.24.2026–09.25.2026
The Center for Inflation Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the European Central Bank (ECB) will host the Inflation: Drivers and Dynamics Conference 2026 on September 24–25 in person in Cleveland.
Event
2026 Financial Stability Conference
11.19.2026–11.20.2026
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Yale Program on Financial Stability host the fourteenth annual financial stability conference in person in Cleveland, OH, on November 19-20, 2026.
General
Economic Scholars Program
A free event allows undergraduate economic students to share their work, participate in an economic research conference, network with peers, and discover future opportunities.