Economic Bulletin

2019 - 2025

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Key Agricultural Trade Partners Are Important for U.S. Farm Sector Revenues and Food Prices pp. 4: Ty Kreitman

KC Fed LMCI Can Help Sift Out Noise in Payroll Data pp. 3: Amaze Lusompa and Jose Mustre-del-Rio
First-Time Homeownership Became Less Affordable Across Most of the United States in Recent Years pp. 4: Chase Farha, John McCoy and David Rodziewicz
Did Importers Try to Front-Run Recent Tariffs on China? pp. 4: Thomas Cook and Mariia Dzholos
Labor Market Cooling Has Been Uneven Across Industries pp. 4: Karlye Dilts Stedman and Emily Pollard

Consumer Credit Cards Show Few Signs of Financial Stress pp. 3: Jordan Pandolfo
Federal Government Outlays Remain Historically Elevated, Spurred by Robust Transfers pp. 4: Huixin Bi and Alison Felix
How Do Financial Markets Perceive the Balance of Risks to the Policy Rate? pp. 4: Brent Bundick, Taeyoung Doh and Andrew Smith

Cost of Childcare Increasingly Weighs on Labor Force Engagement pp. 4: John McCoy

Why Are Multifamily Property Prices Falling? pp. 4: Matt Hanauer, W. Blake Marsh and Nicholas Sly
Powering Up: The Surging Demand for Electricity pp. 4: Nida Cakir Melek and Alex Gallin

Agricultural Economic Summit Highlights Growing Connection Between Agriculture and Energy pp. 4: Nathan Kauffman and Ty Kreitman
Why Haven’t Recent Rate Increases Slowed the Economy More? Look to Unusually Low Private-Lending Spreads pp. 4: Andrew Glover and Johnson Oliyide
Labor Shortages in the Healthcare Sector Have Eased, Which May Soften Price Pressures pp. 4: Johannes Matschke and Emily Pollard
Considerations for the Longer-Run Maturity Composition of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Portfolio pp. 4: Rajdeep Sengupta and Andrew Smith

Young Workers Fuel Recovery in Jobs Requiring a High School Diploma or Less pp. 4: Emily Pollard
Housing Services Inflation May Decline Only Gradually pp. 4: Jordan Rappaport
Are Firms Hoarding Cash Post-Pandemic pp. 4: Phillip An, Karlye Dilts Stedman and W. Blake Marsh
Consumer Discretionary Sector Has Boosted Recent Regional Services Activity as Business and Professional Activity Slows pp. 4: Chase Farha and Chad Wilkerson

Consumer Debt Is High, but Consumers Seem to Have Room to Run pp. 3: Jason Brown and Colton Tousey
Current Monetary Policy May Be Less Restrictive Than It Seems pp. 4: Johannes Matschke and Alice von Ende-Becker
Rising Immigration Has Helped Cool an Overheated Labor Market pp. 4: Elior Cohen
Despite High Inflation, Longer-Term Inflation Expectations Remain Well Anchored pp. 4: Brent Bundick and Andrew Smith

Foreign-Born Women Have Driven the Recent Increase in Prime-Age Women in the Labor Force pp. 4: Emily Pollard and Didem Tuzemen
Banks’ Commercial Real Estate Risks Are Uneven pp. 4: W. Blake Marsh and Jordan Pandolfo

Hybrid Work May Pose Challenge to Bars and Restaurants in Parts of the Tenth Federal Reserve District pp. 4: John McCoy
Downtown Office Use Has Declined, but Some Metropolitan Areas Are Faring Better than Others pp. 4: Jordan Rappaport
Not Bullish: U.S. Cattle Herds Hung Up on Higher Interest Expenses pp. 4: Cortney Cowley, Ty Kreitman and Francisco Scott

Bank Deposit Rates Haven't Kept Pace with Yields on Other Investments, but Depositors Are Staying Anyway pp. 4: Chris Acker, W. Blake Marsh and Padma Sharma
Interest Expenses on Farmland Debt Could Challenge Farm Profitability pp. 4: Ty Kreitman
Corporate Interest Expenses Are Expected to Increase Further: Phillip An, Huixin Bi and W. Blake Marsh

Community Bank Funding Is Getting Costlier and Riskier pp. 4: Brendan Laliberte, W. Blake Marsh and Padma Sharma
Decline in Number of Workers with “Some College” Is Boosting Healthcare Wage Inflation pp. 4: Emily Pollard

Rapid Declines in the Fed’s Overnight Reverse Repurchase (ON RRP) Facility May Start to Slow pp. 4: Stefan Jacewitz

Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Reduced Local Consumer Spending but Had Limited Effect on Aggregate Spending pp. 4: Edmund Crawley, Taeyoung Doh and Minchul Shin
Post-Pandemic Labor Shortages Have Limited the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Labor Market pp. 4: Elior Cohen
Labor Constraints and Strong Demand Are Driving Robust Food Services Inflation pp. 4: Cortney Cowley and Francisco Scott
Comparing Measures of Rental Prices Can Inform Monetary Policy pp. 4: Peter McAdam

To Reach the Fed’s Inflation Target, Interest Rates May Have to Remain Restrictive for Some Time pp. 4: Johannes Matschke and Sai Sattiraju

China's Post-COVID Recovery: Implications and Risks pp. 4: Thomas Cook and Johannes Matschke
Will High Underlying Inflation Persist? pp. 4: Amaze Lusompa and Sai Sattiraju
Corporate Profits Contributed a Lot to Inflation in 2021 but Little in 2022—A Pattern Seen in Past Economic Recoveries pp. 4: Andrew Glover, Jose Mustre-del-Rio and Jalen Nichols

Tight Labor Markets Have Been a Key Contributor to High Food Inflation pp. 4: Cortney Cowley, Ty Kreitman and Francisco Scott

A Tight Labor Market Could Keep Rent Inflation Elevated pp. 4: Brent Bundick and Andrew Smith
When the Music Stops: Slowing Wage Growth May Lead to More Delinquent Debt pp. 4: Jason Brown and Colton Tousey
Why Has Monetary Policy Tightening Not Cooled the Labor Market Enough to Quell Inflation? pp. 4: Karlye Dilts Stedman and Emily Pollard

The KC Fed LMCI Momentum Indicator Suggests Monetary Policy Is Beginning to Weigh on Labor Markets pp. 4: Jose Mustre-del-Rio and Emily Pollard
Gasoline Prices Unlikely to Bring Down Inflation in 2023 pp. 4: Nida Cakir Melek, Francis Dillon and Andrew Smith
Home Prices Are Overvalued but Will Decline Only Gradually pp. 4: Jordan Rappaport
Pushing the Limit: Last-Minute Debt Limit Resolutions Have Increased Market Volatility and Uncertainty pp. 4: Stefan Jacewitz, W. Blake Marsh and Nicholas Sly