Blog Posts

To better understand how stakeholders across the Twelfth District are navigating the economic impacts of increasing wildfire smoke and their actions to build resilience to these impacts, the SF Fed hosted a webinar in August with industry, small business, and community leaders. Here are our top takeaways.

The SF Fed seeks out real-time information on economic conditions around the Twelfth District by engaging with and learning from businesses, community organizations, and local leaders. Here’s a snapshot of a recent meeting at Salt Lake Community College from Becky B. Potts, Regional Executive of the SF Fed’s Salt Lake City branch.

The SF Fed seeks out real-time information on economic conditions around the Twelfth District by engaging with and learning from businesses, community organizations, and local leaders. Here’s a snapshot of a recent visit to Kern County from Qiana Charles, Regional Executive of the SF Fed’s Los Angeles branch.

In a recent roundtable with the SF Fed, Pacific Northwest union leaders described how recent high inflation was affecting their members.

U.S. household savings rose and fell at unprecedented rates since the onset of the pandemic recession. Updated estimates suggest that only a small fraction of accumulated excess savings remains in the aggregate economy and that those funds are likely to be depleted during the third quarter of 2023.

What was the Fed’s July 2023 policy decision? And how does it affect you? FOMC Rewind breaks it down.

To capture insights about our District’s evolving economic situation, we conducted listening sessions with community and business leaders to discuss the state of the labor market, the ongoing impact of higher prices, and other economic conditions across the Twelfth District.

Commercial Real Estate is one of the most powerful drivers of the Twelfth District’s economy. To understand the outlook for this vital sector, we talked with commercial real estate executives about the opportunities and challenges they see ahead.

Visiting Scholar Dr. Alex Schafran discusses multi-family homeownership and its connection to regional equity and labor market participation in a Q&A with one of our Community Development researchers.

In principle, digitalization can equalize access to housing search information and diversify information supplies. In practice, this promise is muted by a range of drawbacks. Three areas in particular underscore the opportunities and challenges inherent in housing search digitalization to date: improving information sharing, fostering nontraditional mobility, and shifting power dynamics.