SF FedViews

Timely analysis on the current economy, economic developments, and the outlook.

  • FedViews: February 14, 2013

    Bart Hobijn, senior research advisor

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

  • FedViews: January 10, 2013

    Eric T. Swanson, senior research advisor

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

  • FedViews: December 13, 2012

    Rob Valletta, research advisor

    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, […]

  • FedViews: November 8, 2012

    Bharat Trehan, research advisor

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

  • FedViews: October 11, 2012

    Sylvain Leduc, research advisor

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

  • FedViews: September 14, 2012

    Simon Kwan, vice president

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

  • FedViews: July 12, 2012

    Reuven Glick, group vice president

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

  • FedViews: June 14, 2012

    Bart Hobijn, senior research advisor

    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 […]

  • FedViews: May 10, 2012

    John Fernald, group vice president and associate director of research

    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. […]

  • FedViews: April 12, 2012

    Glenn Rudebusch, executive vice president and director of research

    Following past recessions, residential construction made significant contributions to the early stages of recovery. This time, several years after the Great Recession ended, housing remains deeply depressed. Recently, in some localities, there have been pockets of improvement. However, nationally, single-family housing starts are still moving sideways. Outside housing, the recent economic news has generally been […]