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A report on economic conditions in the Little Rock zone
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Labor Market Polarization: How Does the District Compare with the Nation?
See why jobs in the District, nation are increasingly becoming high-skill or low-skill. The decline of middle-skill jobs may be widening income inequality.
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A report on economic conditions in the Louisville zone
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Labor Force Participation
The labor force participation rates for prime-working-age men have been falling across countries.
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The Global Decline of the Natural Rate of Interest and Implications for Monetary Policy
A low natural rate of interest in normal times may call for unconventional policy in recessions.
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China's Economic Data: An Accurate Reflection, or Just Smoke and Mirrors?
Find out why accurate reporting by China on its economy is important and how doubting outsiders are stepping in with their own measurements.
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Comparing Measures of Potential Output
One of the goals of stabilization policy is to reduce the output gap?the difference between potential and actual output?during downturns. Potential output, however, is an unobserved variable whose definition can vary. For example, some view potential output as the level of output that can be produced when employment is at the natural rate. Others use trend measures of output to measure potential. We survey some of these measures using both full-sample data (all of the data that would be available through June 2017) and real-time data (the actual data that would have been available at ...
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District's Patterns in Imports and Exports Sometimes Differ from Nation's
As in the nation, the Eighth Federal Reserve District?s main trading partners are Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union. What is imported and exported, however, can vary significantly.
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Taking Stock: Income Inequality and the Stock Market
Financial crises affect high-income earners disproportionately because of their exposure to riskier assets.
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Moving In, Moving Out: The Migration Pattern of the Eighth District
Education and income differed between those leaving and those entering the District states from 2013-2017.