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Site title: FRED Blog | Interesting graphs from the FRED library
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Since 2013, the Federal Reserve Board has conducted the SHED—the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking. It measures the economic well-being of U.S. households and identifies potential risks to their finances, with categories such as credit access and behaviors, savings, retirement, economic fragility, and education and student loans.
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The majority of Treasury securities are held by the American public and institutions, including the Federal Reserve. FRED
The takeaway
Most economic time series reflect what we know today. That is, they provide the most current, most accurate versions of the data. But what if we want to look back at what we thought was true yesterday? That’s where ALFRED can help.
FRED’s archival data service has turned 20
ALFRED, ...
Headlines earlier this year reported that federal US debt exceeded the size of the US economy. Another way to put that: The US debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%.
The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate from Congress: stable prices and full employment.
For the first objective, what prices should the Fed keep stable? There are many to choose from. Although they’re obviously correlated, they do deviate from each other, especially in the short run.
The Fed and specifically the FOMC look at many price indexes, but...