A comprehensive list of recently added postings on Dallasfed.org.
Eleventh District Beige Book
The Eleventh District economy continued to expand modestly. Manufacturing output and demand declined, but growth picked up slightly in the service sector. Retail sales fell again, and energy activity eased slightly.
March 8, 2023
Capital flowed from emerging markets as pandemic, economic cycle took hold
Fluctuations in the global financial cycle, reflecting impacts from the COVID crisis, account for roughly one-third of the movement in emerging-market inflows during 2020–23.
March 7, 2023
Preventing and responding to dysfunction in core markets
Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan delivered these remarks at the Workshop on Market Dysfunction at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
March 3, 2023
Permian Basin Economic Indicators
Permian Basin-area employment grew in 2022. Oil production reached a new high, and the rig count increased. However, home sales slowed and median home prices declined slightly during the fourth quarter.
March 1, 2023
Texas service sector activity continues to grow, price pressures remain elevated
Growth in Texas service sector activity continued in February, according to business executives responding to the Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey.
February 28, 2023
Threat of global housing slide looms amid rising rates
While house-price growth has recently begun to moderate—or, in some countries, to decline—the risk of a deep global housing slide persists.
February 28, 2023
Did expanded Child Tax Credit enable parents in financially vulnerable households to work during pandemic?
Social scientists have found in some instances that safety-net programs sometimes reduce recipients’ incentive to work and thereby provide a headwind to U.S. economic growth.
February 28, 2023
PCE inflation update
The headline, or all-items, PCE price index rose an annualized 7.7 percent in January after increasing an annualized 2.4 percent in December.
February 24, 2023
Banking Conditions Survey, February 2023
Loan demand declined for the fourth period in a row, with more than half of bankers reporting a decrease over the past six weeks.
February 21, 2023
Trade diversion has helped ease the impact of the embargo on Russian oil
Much has been made about the effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the price of oil. However, the price of oil was already drifting upward well before the invasion in late February 2022.
February 21, 2023