Publication:
Business Trends
1948-1966
This collection is the print version of Business Trends, a Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland weekly broadcast that covers current economic conditions. The radio transmission, broadcast weekly by various Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland professionals, occurred over the Cleveland, Ohio radio station WGAR.
- Business Review
- Indexes
- Index, 1948-1949
- Index, 1950
- Index, 1951
- Index, 1952
- Index, 1953
- Index, 1954
- Index, 1955
- Index, 1956
- Index, 1957
- Index, 1958
- Index, 1959
- Index, 1960
- Index, 1961
- Index, 1962
- Index, 1963
- Index, 1964
- Index, 1965
- 1940s
- October 9, 1948
- October 16, 1948
- Consumer Buying and the Use of Savings and Credit
- Trends in Retails Trade
- Regulation W : Interview of H.E.J. Smith by Jim Martin
- Business Inventories : November 13, 1948
- Business Inventories : November 20, 1948
- Foreign Trade
- Department Store Trade : December 4, 1948
- What Do People Intend to Buy?
- Capital Expenditures by Business
- Department Store Trade : January 8, 1949
- The Decline in Commodity Prices
- Jobs, Wages and Salaries
- Financial Developments and the Business Outlook
- Trends in Construction
- Are Consumers Buying Less?
- The Demand for Housing
- Are the Lay-offs Only Seasonal?
- Financing Home Ownership
- The Trend of Retail Trade
- Government Spending
- Factors Affecting Consumer Prices
- When and Where Did the Recession Actually Start?
- How Far Has the Price Deflation Gone?
- What is Happening to Employment?
- Some Implications of the Rate of Saving
- Is Business History Repeating Itself?
- Have Farmers Stopped Buying?
- Capital Investment of Business
- Recent Improvement in Trade
- Recent Changes in Consumer Durable Goods Industries
- The Downturn in the Durable Goods Industries
- The Cold War Along the Price Front
- The Outlook for Lower Meat Prices
- The Income Trend
- Consumer Buying in 1949
- Looking Ahead to September
- Consumer Incomes and Expenditures
- Retail Trade
- Recent Business Developments
- Recent Employment Trends
- Member Bank Reserves
- A Turning Point in Business?
- Construction and Business Prospects
- The Summer Sag in Department Store Sales
- Why Don't Good Prices Come Down?
- The General Trend of Prices
- Demand for Housing
- Consumer Income and Spending
- Recent Development
- Prospective Changes in Food Prices
- The Impact of Foreign Currency Devaluations
- The Current Business Situation
- Ohio's Dependence on Steel
- What's Behind the Dollar Rumors
- Recent Employment Trends
- 1949 Christmas Trade and the Business Outlook
- Consumers' Ability to Buy
- Some Unfinished Business … For 1950
- Business Expenditures for Plant and Equipment
- Outlook for Food Production
- 1950s
- The Statisticians Take a Look at 1950
- The Present Position of Retail Trade
- Trends in Residential Construction
- The Ides of March - And April
- Trends in Automobile Production
- The Rise in Consumer Credit
- Personal Savings
- Income, Savings and Spending
- More Inflation, Disinflation, or "Anti-Disinflation"?
- The Early 1950 Trade Reports
- Inventories
- The Outlook for Food Prices
- Some Aspects of Unemployment
- Two More Years … On Probation?
- What, and How Much, Will People Buy This Year?
- How Reliable Are Consumer Buying Plans as Business Indicators?
- Some Recent Trends in Prices
- How Solid is the Business Front?
- Residential Construction Boom
- Bank Lending and Business
- Local Business
- Exceptional Visibility - Or a Mirage?
- Strength and Weakness in Retail Trade
- Employment Trends
- Farm Land Prices
- The Mainspring of the Postwar Boom
- The New Highs in Business Activity
- Recent Price Developments
- Another Upward Spiral in Food Prices?
- Is the Half a Loaf Worse Than None?
- The Rise and Fall of "Scare Buying"
- An Irregular Advance in the Farm Product Prices
- What Kind of Control?
- Towards Balance in International Trade
- The Korean War and the Agricultural Outlook
- Emergency Controls - 1950
- The New Investment Credit Controls
- What Next -- After "V-K" Day?
- Where are Food Prices Headed?
- What Wage Price Spiral
- The Present Position of Retail Trade
- The Beachhead Against Inflation
- The Function of "X"
- The Regulation of Residential Real Estate Credit
- Higher Taxes Needed to Fight Inflation
- The Sources of Inflation
- The 1951 Sweepstakes
- What Lies Ahead Now?
- Are Consumers Beginning to Save Again?
- Is There Enough Manpower?
- Taxing Excess Profits
- Food Prices
- Price Control : The Early 1951 Model
- Recent Developments in Credit Policy
- Three Depressions Within One Generation?
- Farm Production Under Rearmament
- Recent Developments in Real Estate and Construction
- Price Control - A Start
- Holding the Cost of Living is Crucial
- The New Wage Policy
- Branding Inflation an Aggressor
- Is Agriculture in a Favored Position?
- What is Happening to the Government Bond Market?
- The Control of Strategic Materials
- The War Against Inflation : The Credit Front
- A World of Inflation
- Some First-Quarter Business Scores
- A Policy of General Credit Restraint
- An Economic Lockstep?
- Maximum Prices on Live Cattle
- A Means of Moderating the Squeeze?
- Store Sales Resume Speed
- What's Happening to Prices?
- The War Against Inflation
- An Entirely New Anxiety
- The Trend of National Income
- Help Wanted
- Lower Food Prices Ahead?
- Losing Contact With Inflation
- A Cease-Fire Does Not Mean a "Cease-Buy"
- Critical Defense Area - A Trap?
- What is Happening to Building?
- Has Employment Now Become Chronic?
- Trade Troubles on the Thames
- The Real Cost of Defense
- Business Inventories
- "Where is That Fall Pickup?"
- Saving Your Dollar
- A Favorable Harvest
- Housing - On the Way Down
- Recent Price Trends
- About a Winning Streak
- There is Another Side
- Some Reflections on Credit Policy and Inflation
- Turkey - No Longer a Holiday Item
- The National Product
- Britannia on the Rocks
- The New Consumer Durable Goods Index
- The National Debt
- The Merchants' Merry Christmas
- On Moving the Decimal Point
- Are Inventories Too Large?
- 1951 - A Year of Mixed Industrial Trends
- The Farm Market
- Retail Sales in the Final Quarter of '51
- Construction : Retrospect and Prospect
- Getting the Range on the Future Business Conditions
- A New Light on Critical Defense Housing Areas
- Farm Production Target
- The Largest Churn in the World
- Bank Reserves and the Supply of Credit
- Dollar for Dollar
- How's Business?
- Can Spring Be Far Behind?
- Financing 1952
- Creating Six New Ohios
- Wholesale Price Index Revised
- Some Regional Differences in Business
- Federal Reserve Operations : March, 1952
- The Newest El Dorado
- First-Quarter Business Scores
- The Capital Equipment Boom
- The Farm Land Boom
- Treasury Finance
- Cutting the Cost of Living in Two
- Easy Credit
- Recent Price Trends
- What it Takes to be a Farmer
- Knocking Off for Two Years
- How's Business?
- Laissez-Faire : 1952 Model
- A Genuine Pickup in Retail Trade
- Construction in 1952
- Eight Bushels per Person
- A New Turnpike Every Saturday
- Small Business
- Thirty Million Farmers Move to Town
- The Atom Falls on Ohio
- The Creeping Cost of Living
- What Price Gold?
- Financial Small Business
- Entering a New Inventory Cycle
- There's More Than Food in Your Diet
- Interest and Bank Costs
- A Dollar for a Ballot
- How's Business?
- Farm Production Outlook
- Consumer Buying Is Strong
- Defense and Prosperity
- The Pilgrims Had It Better
- Debts - Blessing or Curse?
- A New Sport Market Price Index
- Personal Income
- An Eagle for Christmas?
- Shop Talk on Business Trends
- "Is Research Agriculture's New Frontier"?
- The 1953 Business Forecasts
- What's Happened to Farm Exports?
- Patrolling the Business Front
- Business Prospects After Rearmament
- The Downtrend in Farm Prices
- The New Consumer Price Index
- Demand for Credit in 1953
- Gold Outward Bound
- The Big Business of Local Governments
- Alternative Views of the Business Boom
- Impact of Agricultural Imports
- A Perking Up in Commodity Prices
- How's Business?
- Food Shortage
- Tomahawks in Our Spare Time?
- National Product at a New Pinnacle
- Housing Prospects
- How People Spend
- Whither Defense Spending?
- Too Much Milk?
- The Economic Setting : In Absentia
- What the Business Indicators Are Showing
- A Higher Price for Money
- The Automobile Market
- The Shrinkage in Farm Income
- No Freedom From Headaches
- Underneath the Trade Totals
- Farm Prices and Consumer Food Prices
- The Steel Barometer
- Wheat Marketing Quotas
- Spotting a Turn in Business : Interview by Charles Day
- Greenbook Clover
- Inventories Still Rise
- Recent Employment Trends
- Shorter Days of Labor
- Soft Goods Outscore Hard Goods
- Beef and Pork Cycles
- Construction Activity
- New Worth of Consumers, Early 1953
- Eleven More Depressions
- The Business Weather : A Few Drops of Rain
- Farm Output Stems Rise in Food Prices
- What's Happening to Prices?
- Retails Sales Are Down a Notch
- The Dip in Consumer Durables Output
- An Autumn Drought
- Some Horoscopes for 1953
- Looking Ahead at Construction
- Bank Borrowing in the Fourth District
- Christmas Buying as a Business Topic
- The Referee's Whistle
- A Parity Ratio for Consumers
- The 1954 Business Forecasts
- A New Look at Consumer Credit
- The Decline in Farm Land Prices
- No Practice Rounds
- Newer Trends in Personal Income
- The New Production Index
- The Butter Dilemma
- Better Hunting for Everybody
- A Meeting of Minds on Business Barometers
- Demand Remains Strong
- Another Drought Year?
- On the Causes of Health
- Post-Boom Price Trends
- How's Business?
- Water - A Key Resource
- Consumers Are Borrowing Less
- Consumer Income and Trends
- The Unemployment Picture
- Strength in Retail Trade
- The Wheat Dilemma
- Everything but the Ivy
- Business Pointers Nearing the Upturn Mark
- The Farm Export Score
- The Auto Industry at Mid-Year
- Harvesting Along Euclid Avenue
- Rising Output of Consumer Durable Goods
- The Revitalized Housing Boom
- A Dip in Farm Prices
- The Change in Reserve Requirements
- Retail Trade Continues Strong
- The National Product Holds Steady
- Mid-Summer Crop Prospects
- The Housing Act of 1954
- The Housing Boom and Home Financing
- A Triple Look at Income Trends
- Inventory Liquidation Nears Completion
- The Recent Stability in Farm Land Prices
- Trends in New Security Issues
- The Employment Situation
- Third-Quarter Trade Scores
- Recent Price Developments
- Trends in Banking and the Money Supply
- Photo Finish - Or Land Slide?
- How's Business?
- Will Business "Gun" the Green Light?
- Stalemate on the Consumer Credit Front
- How's Farming?
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Business Births and Deaths
- Christmas on the Farm
- Monetary Policy and Bank Reserves
- The 1955 Business Forecasts
- Consumer Income and Spending in 1954
- Credit in Agriculture
- Federal Finances : Fiscal '56
- Farm Exports Increasing
- Keeping Up With Atomic Energy
- Recent Price Trends
- Impact of Strikes on Business
- Business on the Upsweep
- The Trend of Employment
- The Persistence of Business Cycles
- What Is Delaying Agricultural Recovery?
- "Another Swing of the Inventory Cycle"
- Revival in Consumer Borrowing
- Spring Planting Plans
- Business Activity Shifts Into High
- New Records for Retail Sales
- The Two-Year Yardstick of Business
- Glass-Grown Salads
- Economic Growth : Retrospect and Prospect
- Mortgage Credit Terms and the Housing Boom
- Production and Employment
- Prices of Farm Land Edge Higher
- Breathing Spell for People With Fixed Incomes
- Bank Credit and the Business Upsurge
- The Stock Market Boom
- The Testing of the Business Boom
- Spending by State Governments
- Trends in Personal Debt
- The Comeback of Cleveland Business
- Prosperity - It's Here
- Midyear Farm Prospects
- The Auto Industry in 1955
- Commodity Prices : A Tenuous Stability
- Houses in Hock
- Minimizing the Loss of Farm Income
- Business Profile of Seven Septembers
- Local Construction Trends
- Is There a Revolution in Consumer Spending?
- Bulk Handling of Milk
- The Demand for Housing
- The Trend of Business
- Business Barometers Are Up
- World Gains in Industrial Production
- New Developments in the Marketing of Farm Products
- The Financing of Small Business
- Recent Price Tendencies
- Full Employment and Inflation
- Business in the Home Stretch
- Dangers in Consumer Credit
- Christmas Tree Farming
- The 1956 Business Forecasts
- Business Mergers
- Consumer Installment Credit : Retrospect and Prospect
- The Atom : A New Tool for Agriculture
- Peak or Plateau of Business?
- Bank Debits as Economic Indicators
- Construction Activity
- The Farm Export Picture
- New Gains in Industrial Efficiency
- Retail Trade Trends
- The Federal Budget : Two Perspectives
- Flowers for Easter
- Steel Expansion Ohio and Western Pennsylvania
- Early April Business Appraisal
- Banking During the First Quarter
- Persistence of Upward Price Pressures
- The Government's Stockpile of Farm Products
- Autos' Second Best Year
- Local Changes in Bank Deposits
- The Cost of Marketing Farm Products
- Business in Cleveland
- How's Business?
- Home Building Trends
- A Look at the Credit Picture
- The Soil Bank
- Auto Business and General Business
- Consumer Instalment Credit in 1956
- The Recent Rise in Farm Prices
- The Employment Picture
- Retails Sales at Mid-Year
- Continued Strength in Business Activity
- Advertising Farm Products
- Deflating the Construction Boom
- The Family in the Role of Debtor
- Mounting Price Pressures
- Business Tunes Up
- Gain in the Farmers' Financial Stake
- A New Look at Federal Finances
- Home Ownership and Debt
- Banking in a Boom Year
- What's Behind the Optimism
- The Rise in Farm Efficiency
- Consumer Spending Rushes On
- Bank Loans to Farmers
- Early Autumn Business Scores
- Let's Talk Turkey
- Good and Bad News About the National Product
- Business Expansion and "Tight Money"
- Housing and "Tight Money"
- Outlook for Agriculture
- Manufacturing Employment and General Business
- On the "Side-Effects" of Tight Money
- The 1957 Business Forecasts
- One Thousand Banks
- Outlook for Food Prices
- At Your Services
- How's Business?
- Holding Back the Third Inflation
- Where Are Those Sheep?
- Business is Somewhat Spotty, Prices Rising
- Business Figures Are Stronger Than Business Tone
- The Scramble For Savings
- Meat Supplies to Be Less Abundant
- Growth of Cleveland and Neighboring Cities
- Housing : Surplus or Shortage?
- Retail Sales Continue Strong
- Banking During the First Quarter
- Eggs for Easter
- Women at Work
- Business Still on the Upgrade
- The Demand for Long-Term Money
- A Persistent Advance in Farm Land Prices
- Trends in Population and the Labor Force
- Students, Colleges, and Money
- The Down Trend in Housing
- A Dynamic Dairy Industry
- Consumer Spending Continues to Support Business
- How's Business?
- Enough New Homes? : (An Interview)
- The "Farm Market" for Industrial Goods
- Business Activity in Cleveland
- Recent Price Trends
- The Treasury Goes to Market
- Financing Auto Purchases
- The Recent Advance in Food Prices
- Recent Changes in the National Product
- How's Business?
- Full Employment and Inflation
- A Favorable Balance Sheet for Agriculture
- Private Demands for Credit
- Business Activity Levels Off
- Business Worries and Business Facts
- Plenty Fried Chicken Coming Up
- Consumer Demand : A Buttress to Business and Also to Prices
- A Change in the Tax Rules for Defense Industries
- Limitations on the Use of Stock Market Credit
- Cross Currents in Price Movements
- Fall in Agricultural Imports Threatens Our Export Trade
- Another Look at Retail Trade
- Some Downs, and Ups, in Cleveland Business Activity
- Business Facts and Business Labels
- How's Business?
- The Financial Outlook for Agriculture
- The Past Year in Banking
- Housing : Review and Outlook
- The 1958 Business Forecasts
- Department Stores Make a Comeback
- Freer Trade in Europe
- New and Old Patterns in the Business News
- The Recent Stability of Farm Prices
- The Social Security Program at Work
- Bank Earnings
- How's Business?
- Monetary Policy and Bank Reserves
- Sidelights on the Unemployment Picture Cleveland
- Taking Stock on the Nation's Houses
- Savings on the Rise
- The Trend of Prices : (An Interview)
- Food Prices High, but Relief in Prospect
- Unemployment Insurance as a Business Stabilizer
- Retail Sales During the First Quarter
- The Hesitant Consumer
- Width and Depth of the Business Recession
- Best Location in the Nation
- Recession and the Federal Debt
- Slower Advance in Prices of Farm Land
- How's Business?
- Recent Trends in Banking
- Fewer Marriages: A Recession Sidelight : (An Interview)
- The Financing of Small Business
- The State of Business : (An Interview)
- The Upturn in Agricultural Income
- The U.S. Recession and Business Trends Abroad
- Corporate Pension Funds
- How's Business?
- 1958 Auto Sales in Cleveland
- The "Gold Rush" of '58
- Midsummer Crop Prospects
- The Market for Men's Clothing
- The Passing of Business Fears
- Footnotes to Recovery
- Autos and the Business Outlook
- Financial Strength of Farmers
- Bank Debits and Local Business Trends
- How's Business?
- The Business of Consumer Finance Companies
- Employment Aspects of the Recovery
- Confirming the Breadth of Recovery
- Cities in the Suburbs
- Discretionary Income
- Consumer Spending at New Highs
- Labor Disputes Slow Recovery
- Price of Farm Land Continues Up
- Home Building in 1958
- Prices During a Recovery Period
- The Past Year in Banking
- A Summary of Cleveland Business Activity
- Railroads Face the Future
- The 1959 Business Forecasts
- The Mounting Farm Surplus
- Freer Currency in Europe
- Population Trends Through 1980
- The Littlest Giant
- Some Soundings of Price Levels
- How's Business?
- Trends in Consumer Credit
- Agricultural Exports
- Business Recovery in Cleveland
- Bank Earnings
- This Year's Pattern of Business Activity
- Gain in farm Income Has Been Large
- How Consumers Spend Their Money
- Federal Aid For Highways
- Business Activity at New Peak
- No Doubt Now About Cleveland's Business Recovery
- A Year of Price Stability
- Uncle Sam's Creditors
- Growth in Home Mortgage Debt
- Price of Farmland Pushes Ever Higher
- Financing College Expansion
- The Business of Travel
- Resurgence of Consumer Credit
- Forerunners of This '59 Business Year
- A Mid-Year Appraisal of Retail Sales
- Finding New Uses for Farm Products
- The Balance Sheet of Banking
- How's Business?
- The Changing Position of the U.S. in the World Economy
- Life Insurance's Role in the Capital Markets
- The Balance Sheet of Agriculture
- Trends in Treasury Financing
- A Look at Building in Cleveland
- Caution on the Upbeat
- Cleveland, a City in Transition
- The Steel Strike and Business in General
- Pork-A-Plenty and at Lower Prices
- Trends in Personal Savings
- The Downward Trend of Agricultural Prices
- The Nation Goes Back to School
- Raw Materials in World Trade
- The Demand for Residential Construction
- Impact of the Steel Strike on Business in Cleveland
- Cattlemen Sharpen Their Pencils
- The Business of Sales Finance Companies
- The Business Situation
- More Changes in the Social Security Program
- Reading the Price Barometer
- Has the Strike Prolonged the Boom?
- Cross Currents in Retail Sales in Cleveland
- 1960s
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When this publication/broadcast debuted, it was titled Business Review. The title was changed to Business Trends November 20, 1948.
Business Trends ceased publication with the December 18, 1965 issue.
1948-1966
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