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Site title: FRED Blog | Interesting graphs from the FRED library
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U.S. employment growth in the first quarter of 2026 accelerated slightly to 0.2% relative to one year ago. However, the national average masks significant variation in job growth across the 50 states: 21 of the 50 states had job growth, 28 had job losses, and 1 state (Delaware) had no change relative to one year ago. The median state had a slight job loss of 0.05%.
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The market value of US Treasury securities is considered a benchmark for setting other borrowing costs, such as mortgages. It’s considered a benchmark because the US government has not failed to make good on its Treasury debt obligations. So it serves as a baseline for determining the value of other types of securities with higher ...
The takeaway
Firms have intensified their research and development during the AI boom. They’ve reduced their cash holdings, too, likely to pay for R&D. In this post, we use FRED data to explore these trends and the future of AI-related investment.
Background research
Two recent posts from the St. Louis Fed off...
Data providers may use the same labels for their data even if their methods of collecting the data differ. FRED can help you compare and understand these differences.
Our FRED graph above displays two types of mortgage rates from two different sources: the weekly 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgage rates reported by Freddie Mac (solid lines) an...
Our FRED graph above shows that unemployment is almost always doing one of two things: (1) declining slowly during expansions or (2) rising rapidly during recessions. Friedman (1964,