The dollar rose sharply against both the euro and yen in 2014 and 2015 and non-oil import prices subsequently fell.
Look for our next post on March 23.
November 18, 2015
The Importance of Commodity Prices in Understanding U.S. Import Prices and Inflation
Posted at 7:00 am in Inflation, International Economics, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy | Permalink
November 16, 2015
Should Monetary Policy Respond to Financial Conditions?
Bianca De Paoli There’s an ongoing debate about whether policymakers should respond to financial conditions when setting monetary policy. An argument is often made that financial stability concerns are more appropriately dealt with by using regulatory and macroprudential tools. This post offers a theoretical justification for policymakers to monitor and possibly respond to financial conditions […]
November 13, 2015
November 9, 2015
The New Overnight Bank Funding Rate
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will begin publishing the overnight bank funding rate (OBFR) sometime in the first few months of 2016.
Posted at 7:00 am in Financial Markets, Household Finance, Monetary Policy | Permalink | Comments (2)
November 6, 2015
Health Inequality
However important income inequality is, it is only a partial representation of the inequality in well-being among individuals, households, counties, and other communities.
November 5, 2015
How Did Quantitative Easing Interact with Regional Inequality?
Income, or wealth, inequality is not something that central bankers generally worry about when setting monetary policy, the goals of which are to maintain price stability and promote full employment.
Posted at 7:05 am in Household Finance, Housing, Inequality, Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy, Regional Analysis, Unemployment | Permalink
Trends in Debt Concentration in the United States By Income
Household debt in the United States expanded before the Great Recession, contracted afterward, and has been recovering since 2013.
November 4, 2015
Differences in Rent Inflation by Cost of Housing
We know that different people experience different inflation rates because the bundle of goods and services that they consume is different from that of the “typical” household.
November 3, 2015
Some Options for Addressing Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Problems
By Hunter L. Clark, Andrew F. Haughwout, and James A. Orr Puerto Rico’s economic and fiscal challenges have been an important focus of work done here at the New York Fed, resulting in two reports (2012 and 2014), several blog posts and one paper in our Current Issues series in just the last few years. […]
Exploring Differences in Unemployment Risk
The risk of becoming unemployed varies substantially across different groups within the labor market.
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