SF Fed Blog
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Origin Stories: Meet SF Fed’s Diverse Suppliers
Caron Ng, NU-SETGet to know Caron Ng of NU-SET, one of SF Fed’s diverse supplier partners who is helping our communities thrive.
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Reimagining Financial Systems to Create Thriving Economies
The SF Fed’s Community Development team offers lessons learned from the 2022 National Interagency Community Reinvestment Conference (NICRC), which sought to spark ideas, conversations, and actions to reimagine the community development field.
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60-Second Explainer: How the Fed is Working to Lower Inflation
How is the Fed working to lower inflation? The first video in our 60-Second Explainer series provides a quick review of how higher interest rates can help bring inflation down.
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What We Learned from Twelfth District Agriculture CEOs about Climate Resilience
How do the farmers, ranchers and food producers view climate risk? In a recent roundtable with President Mary Daly, CEOs from the Twelfth District’s agricultural sector shared their insights on managing climate risk.
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The Role of Care Work in Pandemic Recovery
Our most recent Fed Listens event brought researchers and leaders together to explore how better supporting care work can contribute to a more inclusive economic recovery. Here are four takeaways from the discussion.
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Listen to Learn, Engage to Serve: Becoming a Community-Engaged Bank
Robust and meaningful engagement with the people we serve isn’t a ‘nice-to-have.’ It’s a ‘must-have.’ SF Fed Senior Vice President of Public Engagement, Laura Choi is developing effective ways for two-way dialogue to listen and represent all communities across the Twelfth District.
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Graduate Students Unlock New Insights into Economic Inequity
The San Francisco Fed’s Economic Research Department congratulates Aina Krupinski Puig and Hina Usman as the authors of the essays selected in our first “Unlocking Our Potential” graduate student essay contest. “These essays help shed new light on the impact of gender and racial inequities, which have a real economic cost for every American,” said SF Fed Research Director Sylvain Leduc.
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SF Fed Visiting Scholar named 2022 Clark Medalist
The American Economic Association named Oleg Itskhoki the best young American economist for 2022. This John Bates Clark medalist contributes to the San Francisco Fed through his work as a visiting scholar in Economic Research.
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Watch: Will Rising Rents Push Up Future Inflation?
Rising rents account for a significant portion of recent inflation. Estimates of how rent inflation typically responds to two leading indicators—current asking rents and current house prices—can help forecast the path of overall inflation for the next two years.
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Commercial Real Estate’s Bumpy Road to Recovery
The Supervision + Credit team’s quarterly First Glance 12L report notes an uneven recovery for commercial real estate in the fourth quarter of 2021, with historically strong performance for the industrial and apartment sectors, but an uphill battle for parts of the office sector.