SF FedViews

Òscar Jordà, research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

Bart Hobijn, senior research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

Eric T. Swanson, senior research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

Recent data have been uneven but on balance consistent with a continued moderate recovery of overall economic activity and the labor market, with modest price inflation. We expect that the pace of gross domestic product (GDP) growth will pick up over the next few years and that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually. Hence, […]

Bharat Trehan, research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

Sylvain Leduc, research advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

Simon Kwan, vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

Reuven Glick, group vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, states his views on the current economy and the outlook.

After growing at a fairly strong pace at the end of last year, real GDP has decelerated. Some of the slowdown is probably due to temporary factors, such as a payback for unseasonably warm winter weather that may have accelerated economic activity earlier this year. However, a broad range of economic indicators for the second […]

Businesses are slowly hiring, consistent with an economy that is growing moderately. The economy has recovered about 3¾ million of the 8.8 million jobs lost during the downturn. In April, job gains were a somewhat disappointing 115,000. Still, upward revisions to jobs in February and March left the level of employment close to our expectations. […]