State-level unemployment claims can provide a real-time measure of national labor market conditions and the overall state of the economy. A rapid and widespread buildup of stress in state labor ...

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 ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will host its 2025 Asia Economic Policy Conference (AEPC) on November 20-21, 2025, ...

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

In a recent webinar, small business development centers shared how they and the small businesses they serve have incorporated GenAI into their work and the lessons they’ve learned.

A new data interactive and a recent webinar from the SF Fed Community Engagement and Analysis team shed light on homeownership trends in the 12th District ...

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.

The 2022 Diary of Consumer Payment Choice finds that the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to affect the way U.S. consumers use and hold cash. The share of payments made in cash dropped sharply from ...

Employment growth has consistently come in above pre-pandemic estimates of the rate needed for unemployment to stay near its long-run natural rate. Even so, unemployment has held steady, which raises ...

Monetary policy is often regarded as having only temporary effects on the economy, moderating the expansions and contractions that make up the business cycle. However, it is possible for monetary ...