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Total Factor Productivity - San Francisco Fed
Summary. Over the past four quarters ending in the third quarter of 2024, Total Factor Productivity grew at a rate of 1.44% and Utilization-adjusted Total Factor Productivity grew at rate of 1.47%.
PCE Inflation Dispersion - San Francisco Fed
PCE Measures – 12-Month Inflation Rates* 23-Oct 23-Apr 24-Aug 24-Sep 24-Oct Ten Year Average; Distribution of Inflation; Total: 2.994291337: 4.462536462: 2.267598066
Office of the President - San Francisco Fed
Mary C. Daly is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.In 2024, she is a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policymaking body of the Federal Reserve System.. Daly assumed leadership of the San Francisco Fed in 2018, building on a distinguished career as a …
How Much Do Supply and Demand Drive Inflation?
Jun 21, 2022 · Inflation has remained at levels well above the Federal Reserve’s inflation goal of 2% for over a year. Separating the underlying data from the personal consumption expenditures price index into supply- versus demand-driven categories reveals that supply factors explain about half of the run-up in current inflation levels. Demand …
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Can Government Spending Help to Escape Recessions?
Feb 1, 2021 · A key to designing fiscal policy is understanding how government purchases affect economic output overall. Research suggests that expanding government spending is not very effective at stimulating an economy in normal times. However, in deep downturns when monetary policy is constrained at the zero lower bound, public spending is more potent and can become an effective way to escape a recession.
Why Is U.S. Inflation Higher than in Other Countries?
Mar 28, 2022 · Inflation rates in the United States and other developed economies have closely tracked each other historically. Problems with global supply chains and changes in spending patterns due to the COVID-19 pandemic have pushed up inflation worldwide. However, since the first half of 2021, U.S. inflation has increasingly outpaced inflation in other developed countries. Estimates suggest that fiscal ...
Cyclical and Acyclical Core PCE Inflation - San Francisco Fed
Cyclical and Acyclical Core PCE Inflation updates data on the contributions to core personal consumption expenditures from cyclical and acyclical components, based on the methods described in Mahedy and Shapiro (2017).
Daily News Sentiment Index - San Francisco Fed
Chart 1: Daily News Sentiment Index: Historical View. Note: Chart 1 shows moving averages of daily news sentiment scores since 1980; higher values indicate more positive sentiment, and lower values indicate more negative sentiment.