Dallas Fed Economics Archive
Analysis and insights to enhance your understanding of the economy
November 15, 2022
Enrique Martínez García
U.S. house prices appreciated a remarkable 94.5 percent from first quarter 2013 to second quarter 2022—a 60.8 percent rise after adjusting for inflation.
November 10, 2022
Luis Torres and Keighton Hines
Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with El Paso business and community leaders in mid-October in the second stop on her 360° in 365 Listening Tour.
November 8, 2022
Mytiah Caldwell, Prithvi Kalkunte and Christopher Slijk
The Texas economy shows continuing signs of softening, as output and employment indicators suggest slower growth relative to the first half of the year.
October 20, 2022
Jesse Thompson and Wenhua Di
Dallas Fed President Lorie K. Logan met with Houston business and community leaders earlier this month in the stop on her 360° in 365 Listening Tour.
October 18, 2022
Robert Rich, Joseph Tracy and Mason Krohn
For a majority of workers, wages didn’t increase as fast as inflation in the 12 months ended in second quarter 2022. Here, we dig deeper to see how outcomes may have differed across groups of workers.
October 11, 2022
Michael Plante and Jessica Rindels
Meeting ambitious manufacturing goals will require batteries—lots of them—as an electric vehicle (EV) can use hundreds to thousands of individual lithium-ion batteries.
October 4, 2022
Robert Rich, Joseph Tracy and Mason Krohn
While the past 25 years have witnessed episodes that show either a greater incidence or larger magnitude of real wage declines, the current time period is unparalleled in terms of the challenge employed workers face.
September 29, 2022
Pia Orrenius and Ana Pranger
The most recent jobs report showed state employment was flat in August. The unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.1 percent (from 4.0 percent in July), and labor force and wage growth also eased.
September 27, 2022
Wenhua Di
The Biden plan is expected to boost participation in the income-driven repayments that lower the payment burden. Imposing a cap on a borrower’s income to qualify for cancellation or increasing the cancellation amount for low-income borrowers could alleviate the regressive nature of broad loan cancellation.
September 6, 2022
Tyler Atkinson and Xiaoqing Zhou
Given rising demand for in-person services, the slow pass-through of surging house prices to rent and owners’ equivalent rent (OER), and higher health care worker wages, services inflation is likely to increase further.