Sticky Price CPI Growth Increased at Slower Pace
The Atlanta Fed's sticky-price consumer price index (CPI)--a weighted basket of items that change price relatively slowly--rose 1.2 percent (annualized)...
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Fed Proposes Limits to Emergency Lending Authority
The Federal Reserve Board recently proposed changes to its emergency lending authority. The changes are required by the Dodd-Frank Act....
Southeast Economy Improved Moderately, Says Beige Book
Atlanta Fed business contacts ended the year on an optimistic note, according to the latest Beige Book. In addition to...
Business Inflation Expectations Continue to Be Stable
For the fifth consecutive month, firms anticipate 1.9 percent inflation over the coming year, according to the Atlanta Fed's business...
Student loan complaints concentrated on the east coast
CFPB Data Analysis Update With the expansion of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) complaint database, companies are now able...
A Football Field of Labor Market Progress
Has the recent decline in the unemployment rate overstated actual progress in labor utilization? A new macroblog post uses a...
The Economic Outlook for 2014
Atlanta Fed President and CEO Dennis Lockhart, in a January 13 speech at the Rotary Club of Atlanta, reviews current...
Into the Breach: Protecting the Integrity of the Payment System
With every data breach, consumer confidence in the U.S. payment industry is also threatened. Portals and Rails suggests that the...
Fed Chair Bernanke Reflects on His Eventful Fed Tenure
On the eve of stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Ben Bernanke gave a speech...
FinovateEurope Preview – Part 1
FinovateEurope is coming up quickly in London February 11-12. As usual, I pay special attention to those companies that will...
