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Federal Reserve System Information The Federal Reserve System produces a huge amount of public information. This handout is intended to give a broad overview of the sources available, but should not be considered exhaustive or authoritative. Individual sources and datasets are intended to provide a small sample of well-known or notable information. Because datasets often shift in name, scope, or availability over time, users are advised to start at Bank websites and navigate from there. Some long-running or particularly useful sources have been linked to individually. Contents Understanding the Fed.................................................................................................................................. 1 Official web sites ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Social media and subscriptions ................................................................................................................. 3 Information by Institution ......................................................................................................................... 4 Information by Topic ..................................................................................................................................... 8 Banking and Payments .............................................................................................................................. 8 Community and Economic Development ................................................................................................. 8 Macroeconomy, including Employment, Labor and Wages ...................................................................... 9 International Economics and Finance ....................................................................................................... 9 Markets ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Monetary and Economic Policy ............................................................................................................... 10 Research, Data, and Other Information .................................................................................................. 10 Understanding the Fed • • • • • • • The Fed Explained federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/the-fed-explained.htm In Plain English video and guide stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english Federal Reserve History federalreservehistory.org Federal Reserve District shapefiles (2019 paper; District boundaries last updated in 1996) kansascityfed.org/Technical%20Briefings/documents/4988/tbFederal%20Reserve%20District%20County%20Shapefiles.pdf Audited financial statements federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/audited-annual-financialstatements.htm Monetary policy reports to Congress federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/publications/mpr_default.htm Federal Reserve Act – section by section full text of the Act, with lists of amending laws federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fract.htm Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org Official web sites • Board of Governors federalreserve.gov/ o Federal Reserve System advisory councils federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/advisorydefault.htm o Board photos, usually public domain flickr.com/photos/federalreserve/ o FOIA policies and requests ▪ federalreserve.gov/foia/recordsmanagement.htm ▪ federalreserve.gov/foia/fomc/servicecenter.htm • Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm o Historical materials from FOMC creation in 1936 federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc_historical.htm • Federal Reserve Banks o All linked at federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/structure-federal-reserve-banks.htm o Most now follow the pattern [city]fed.org, except for San Francisco at frbsf.org o Web archive of the Federal Reserve System archive-it.org/collections/15262 o Museums and Visitor Centers ▪ Atlanta museums and tours atlantafed.org/education/visit.aspx ▪ Chicago Money Museum chicagofed.org/education/money-museum/index • Detroit Branch Visitors Center chicagofed.org/education/moneymuseum/branch-visitor-center/index ▪ Cleveland Money Museum clevelandfed.org/education/visit-money-museum ▪ Dallas Fed museum and tours, including Houston and El Paso branches dallasfed.org/fed/tours ▪ Kansas City Money Museum kansascityfed.org/moneymuseum • Denver Branch Money Museum kansascityfed.org/denver-moneymuseum ▪ New York Museum & Learning Center newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/museumand-learning-center-visits • Economics and Fed comic books newyorkfed.org/outreach-andeducation/comic-books ▪ St. Louis Economy Museum museum.stlouisfed.org • Special sites o Fed Communities – fedcommunities.org – Learn about Federal Reserve resources promoting people, place, policy and practice, and small business. o Consumer Help federalreserveconsumerhelp.gov – Contact the Fed for help related to a complaint or question about a bank or other financial institution. o Discount Window – frbdiscountwindow.org – Learn about the Fed’s practices lending to depository institutions. o Fed Small Business – fedsmallbusiness.org — Browse small business research and analysis by the 12 Reserve Banks of the Federal Reserve System. Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org o o o o o o o o Federal Reserve Services – frbservices.org – Fed services for bankers and the U.S. Treasury. FedNow – explore.fednow.org – New instant payments processing service (2023) Partnership for Progress fedpartnership.gov – Resources to support minority-owned banking institutions. Fed Econ Jobs fedeconjobs.org/ - Information about research assistant job opportunities at the Fed, including summaries of the research focus at the different locations Federal Reserve Education federalreserveeducation.org –Free educational resources for teachers and students, created by curriculum specialists across the Fed. Fed in Print – fedinprint.org – An index of current and historical publications from the Federal Reserve System. FRED – fred.stlouisfed.org – Download, graph, and track more than 800,000 U.S. and international time series from 110 sources. FRASER – fraser.stlouisfed.org – Online library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history, particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System. Social media and subscriptions Note that not all official Fed accounts are verified, but watch out for squatters/impostors too • • • • • • • Facebook – Most Banks and the Board have at least a placeholder account LinkedIn – all Banks and the Board Instagram – Most Banks and the Board have official accounts; some have separate accounts for specific functions o Separate @fedcommunities account o St. Louis Fed Inside the Economy museum @economymuseum Threads – Some banks and the Board have an account o NY, BOG, Phi, X (formerly Twitter) – All Banks and the Board have official accounts; some have separate accounts for specific functions o Research ▪ Board of Governors Research @FedResearch ▪ @ClevFedResearch, @PhilFedResearch, @RichFedResearch ▪ New York: @NYFedResearch, @LibertyStEcon o @FedFRASER and @FedHistory o Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute (Minneapolis) @OIGInstitute o Money Smart Week (Chicago) @moneysmartweek Pinterest – (often teacher-focused, with museum or education materials) o Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Richmond, St. Louis o Generally easy to identify, but Richmond is @fedexperience Newsletters and RSS feeds o Fed in Print – RSS by Bank and keyword topic fedinprint.org/rss o FRASER Features, Inside FRASER blog, and What's New RSS o Newsletters and blogs from all Banks and the Board Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org Information by Institution Board of Governors – federalreserve.gov • • • Data federalreserve.gov/data.htm o Data Download Program federalreserve.gov/data.htm Monetary Policy & FOMC federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy.htm Public Communications o Speeches federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speeches.htm o Testimony federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony.htm Atlanta – atlantafed.org • • • • • • • • • • • Americas Center – financial institutions and markets in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain Center for Financial Innovation and Stability (CenFIS) Center for Quantitative Economic Research (CQER) produces GDPNow Economic Survey Research Center Labor Market Initiative Dataset: Career Ladder Identifier and Financial Forecaster (CLIFF) Dataset: Chief Financial Officer Survey (with Richmond Fed and Duke U) Dataset: China Macroeconomic Time Series Data Dataset: Market Probability Tracker (Three month average Fed Funds rate) Dataset: Wage Growth Tracker, Jobs Calculator and Labor Market Distributions Dataset: Wu-Xia Shadow Federal Funds Rate Boston – bostonfed.org • • • FedNow information and data bostonfed.org/payments-innovation.aspx New England Public Policy Center Summary of National Economic Data interactive tool nationaleconomicsummary.bostonfed.org Chicago – chicagofed.org • • • • • • Peer City Identification Tool Dataset: Advance Retail Trade Summary (CARTS) Dataset: Commercial Bank data 1976-2021 chicagofed.org/banking/financial-institutionreports/commercial-bank-data Dataset: National Activity Index (CFNAI) Dataset: National Financial Conditions Index (NFCI) Dataset: Survey of Economic Conditions (CFSEC) Cleveland – clevelandfed.org • • • • • • Center for Inflation Research Dataset: Credit Easing Dataset: Inflation Nowcasting Dataset: Systemic Risk Indicator Dataset: Survey of Firms' Inflation Expectations Home Mortgage Explorer (partnership with Philadelphia Fed) Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org Dallas – dallasfed.org • • • Energy data o Dataset: Dallas Fed Energy Survey o Dataset: Index of Global Real Economic Activity Globalization Institute Specialty indexes, surveys, and datasets dallasfed.org/research/econdata o Trimmed Mean PCE, Market Value of Government Debt, International House Price Database, and Trade-Weighted Value of the Dollar Kansas City – kansascityfed.org • • • • • • • Agriculture o Agricultural Credit Survey o Agricultural Finance Updates o Annual Ag Symposium Data and Research: Energy Survey Dataset: Financial Stress Index (FSI) Dataset: Interchange Fees Center for Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE) cps.kansascityfed.org Current Population Survey featuring CADRE and Data Curation Initiative Jackson Hole Symposium (annual policy conference for central bankers) kansascityfed.org/research/jackson-hole-economic-symposium Philadelphia – philadelphiafed.org • • • • • • Consumer Finance Institute (formerly Payments Cards Center) Dataset: Consumer Credit and Payments Statistics Dataset: Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey (since 1968) philadelphiafed.org/surveys-anddata/regional-economic-analysis/manufacturing-business-outlook-survey Dataset: The Livingston Survey, the oldest continuous survey of economists’ expectation philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/real-time-data-research/livingston-survey Home Mortgage Explorer (partnership with Cleveland Fed) Real-Time Data Center Minneapolis – minneapolisfed.org • • • • • • • Beige Book archive (1970-present) minneapolisfed.org/region-and-community/regionaleconomic-indicators/beige-book-archive Center for Indian Country Development Dataset: Market-Based Probabilities Dataset: Recession in Perspective Inflation Calculator – relative worth 1913-present via CPI and inflation rates 1800-1912 Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute Minneapolis Fed research publication, conference proceedings, and datasets researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org New York – newyorkfed.org • • • • Applied Macroeconomics & Econometrics Center (AMEC) Center for Microeconomic Data The New York Fed operates the System’s markets trading desk and provides most markets data: o Markets Data Hub newyorkfed.org/markets/data-hub o Dataset: Survey of Primary Dealers o Dataset: Survey of Market Participants o Dataset: System Open Market Account (SOMA) Portfolio Liberty Street Economics blog libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org Richmond – richmondfed.org • • • • • Richmond specializes in predominantly internal-facing services Dataset: Chief Financial Officer Survey (with Atlanta Fed and Duke U) Dataset: Hornstein-Kudlyak-Lange Non-Employment Index Dataset: Non-Employment Index Quantitative Supervision & Regulation San Francisco – frbsf.org • • • • • • Center for Pacific Basin Studies Data Explorer interactive tool frbsf.org/economic-research/sf-fed-data-explorer Dataset: Treasury Yield Premiums Wage Rigidity Meter and Weather-Adjusted Non-Farm Employment Change China Cyclical Activity Tracker Technology data St. Louis – stlouisfed.org • • • • • • • • • CASSIDI – Competitive Analysis and Structure Source Instrument for Depository Institutions (Banking market data) cassidi.stlouisfed.org The Econ Lowdown – Interactive site with large collection of pre-K-16 economics, personal finance, economic history education materials from St. Louis and across the Fed econlowdown.org Fed in Print index of Fed publications fedinprint.org Federal Reserve History encyclopedia-style overview of the Fed federalreservehistory.org FRED data aggregator and ALFRED time series archive fred.stlouisfed.org FRASER fraser.stlouisfed.org Institute for Economic Equity Native Economic and Financial Education Empowerment Women in Economics podcast series and annual conference for students Fed Partners, Collaborations, and Related Sites • Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (Federal Reserve, FDIC, National Credit Union Association, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) – ffiec.gov o FFIEC National Information Center (NIC) – ffiec.gov/npw o Federal regulators banking data – cdr.ffiec.gov/CDR Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org • Consumer Finance Protection Bureau – consumerfinance.gov Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org Information by Topic Banking and Payments • • • • • • • • • • • • Overview federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems.htm Banking supervision & regulation letters federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/srletters/srletters.htm Community Banking Research Conference (Fed, FDIC, and Conference of State Bank Supervisors) communitybanking.org Call Reports (Reports of condition and income) o 1916-1959 via FRASER (scanned page images) o 1976-2021 via Chicago Fed (tabular data) o 2021- via FFIEC National Information Center (NIC) (tabular data) CASSIDI – Competitive Analysis and Structure Source Instrument for Depository Institutions cassidi.stlouisfed.org Center for Financial Innovation and Stability (CenFIS) hosts Financial Markets Conference Dataset: Atlanta Survey of Consumer Payment Choice Dataset: Kansas City Financial Stress Index (FSI) Dataset: Kansas City Interchange Fees Dataset: Philadelphia Consumer Credit and Payments Statistics. Federal Reserve Services frbservices.org o Treasury Services frbservices.org/treasury-services o Webinars and education for the financial sector frbservices.org/education/webinars FedNow frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow o FedNow information and data bostonfed.org/payments-innovation.aspx U.S. Treasury services frbservices.org/treasury-services Community and Economic Development • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Community Development: fedcommunities.org Center for Indian Country Development (Minneapolis) Central Bank Network for Indigenous Inclusion https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/regulation-andsupervision/cross-sector-oversight/our-relationship-with-other-financial-regulators/central-banknetwork-for-indigenous-inclusion Fed, FDIC, and CSBS Community Banking Research Conference communitybanking.org Community Banking Connections – supervision and regulation information for community banks communitybankingconnections.org Native Economic and Financial Education Empowerment (NEFEE) (St. Louis) stlouisfed.org/en/education/native-economic-and-financial-education-empowerment Consumer Finance Institute (Philadelphia) Consumer Finance Protection Bureau consumerfinance.gov Federal Reserve Education federalreserveeducation.org Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data federalreserve.gov/foia/rr_hmda.htm Home Mortgage Explorer (Philadelphia and Cleveland) [Native American] Reservation Profiles (Minneapolis) Partnership for Progress – Minority-owned banks fedpartnership.gov Peer City Identification Tool (Chicago) Small Business: fedsmallbusiness.org Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org Macroeconomy, including Employment, Labor and Wages • • • • • • • • • Applied Macroeconomics and Econometrics Center (New York) newyorkfed.org/research/amec Beige Book archive (1970-present) minneapolisfed.org/region-and-community/regionaleconomic-indicators/beige-book-archive Center for Inflation Research (Cleveland) clevelandfed.org/center-for-inflation-research Dataset: GDPNow (Atlanta) atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow Dataset: Hornstein-Kudlyak-Lange Non-Employment Index (Richmond) richmondfed.org/research/national_economy/non_employment_index Dataset: Livingston Survey of economists' expectations philadelphiafed.org/surveys-anddata/real-time-data-research/livingston-survey Dataset: Nowcast (New York) newyorkfed.org/research/policy/nowcast Dataset: SF Fed [Labor] Data Explorer frbsf.org/economic-research/sf-fed-data-explorer Dataset: Weather-Adjusted Non-Farm Employment Change (San Francisco) frbsf.org/economicresearch/indicators-data/weather-adjusted-employment-change International Economics and Finance • • • • • Americas Center (Atlanta) tracks financial institutions and markets in Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain. Center for Pacific Basin Studies (San Francisco) Dataset: China’s Macroeconomy (Atlanta) Dataset: China Cyclical Activity Tracker (San Francisco) Globalization Institute (Dallas) provides Global Economic Indicators, International House Price Database and Real-Time Historical Dataset for the OECD Markets • • • • • Overview: Open Market Operations federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/openmarket.htm The New York Fed operates the System’s Open Market Trading Desk and provides most markets data: o Markets and Policy Implementation newyorkfed.org/markets o Markets Data Hub newyorkfed.org/markets/data-hub o Dataset: Survey of Primary Dealers o Dataset: Survey of Market Participants o Dataset: System Open Market Account (SOMA) Portfolio o Blog post (August 2013): Transparency and Sources of Information on the Federal Reserve’s Operations, Income, and Balance Sheet libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2013/08/transparency-and-sources-ofinformation-on-the-federal-reserves-operations-income-and-balance-sheet Dataset: Market Probability Tracker (Atlanta) Dataset: Market-Based Probabilities (Minneapolis) Dataset: Treasury Yield Premiums (San Francisco) Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org Monetary and Economic Policy • • • • • • Overview federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm o Historical materials starting with the FOMC's first modern meeting in 1936 federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc_historical.htm o Search across all publicly released FOMC materials, including memos and other materials released by FOIA request that are not part of the regular individual meeting collections fedsearch.org/fomc-docs/search o Materials from FOMC predecessor groups on FRASER ▪ Open Market Investment Committee (OMIC) (1923-1930) fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/minutes-meetings-open-market-investmentcommittee-5187 ▪ Open Market Policy Conference (OMPC) (1930-1933) fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/minutes-meetings-open-market-policy-conference5188 o Monetary policy materials released under FOIA federalreserve.gov/foia/fomc/readingrooms.htm Twice-annual monetary policy reports to Congress federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/publications/mpr_default.htm Jackson Hole annual policy conference (hosted by Kansas City) kansascityfed.org/research/jackson-hole-economic-symposium/ Tools for teaching the new tools of monetary policy stlouisfed.org/en/education/teaching-newtools-of-monetary-policy How to read an FOMC statement https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/may/how-readfomc-statement Research, Data, and Other Information • • • • • • • Board of Governors data and statistical publications federalreserve.gov/data.htm o Statistical Supplement to the Federal Reserve Bulletin (discontinued 2008) federalreserve.gov/pubs/supplement/default.htm Board of Governors FOIA policies and requests o federalreserve.gov/foia/recordsmanagement.htm o federalreserve.gov/foia/fomc/servicecenter.htm Federal Reserve Act and its amendments federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fract.htm Federal Reserve System Annual Audited Financial Statements federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/audited-annual-financial-statements.htm Federal Reserve FAQs federalreserve.gov/faqs/allfaq.htm Federal Reserve History federalreservehistory.org Federal Reserve Office of Minority and Women Inclusion (OMWI) information and data federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/omwi-regulated-entities-self-assessments.htm Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org • • • • • • Federal Reserve System publications index fedinprint.org o FRASER Blog: Federal Reserve Research Publications (March 2018 overview) fraser.stlouisfed.org/blog/2018/03/federal-reserve-research-publications o FRASER: Economic Review Publications of Federal Reserve Banks (as of 2019) fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/EconomicReviews-HistoryAndAvailability.pdf Federal Reserve System records o Records of the Federal Reserve System archives.gov/research/guide-fedrecords/groups/082.html o Hyperlinked Finding Aid to Record Group 82 at the National Archives and Records Administration fraser.stlouisfed.org/archival-collection/records-federal-reserve-system1344/records-federal-reserve-system-469170 Beyond the Numbers (BTN) Conference for librarians and other information professionals (St. Louis) research.stlouisfed.org/conferences/beyond-the-numbers Center for Advancement of Data and Research in Economics (CADRE) Current Population Survey data (Kansas City) cps.kansascityfed.org Research Database, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis researchdatabase.minneapolisfed.org FRED data aggregator includes data from the Board and most Banks along with federal, international, and academic data fred.stlouisfed.org Last updated September 2024 Questions? fraser@stlouisfed.org
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