March 4, 2021
Garrett Golding and Kunal Patel
Possible changes to leasing and permitting requirements governing federal lands could move oil production, prompting a realignment of Permian Basin activity between Texas and New Mexico.
March 2, 2021
Jarod Coulter and Enrique Martínez García
The COVID-19 crisis has adversely affected the U.S. economy, helping account for a projected 3.4 percent contraction in 2020. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) anticipates a strong 4.6 percent rebound in 2021, making up for those losses.
February 23, 2021
Sung Je Byun, Jill Cetina and Joe Kneip
Equity markets appear to favor renewable-energy producers relative to their hydrocarbon counterparts. However, the relatively smaller size of many renewables projects complicates direct comparisons of bank lending to hydrocarbon and renewable entities.
February 16, 2021
Jarod Coulter and Enrique Martínez García
The path of economic recovery from the COVID-19 recession remains far from clear. A fitful rollout of vaccines and governmental responses to new variants of the virus loom over a global growth rebound that private forecasters estimate at 5.5 percent for 2021.
February 9, 2021
Sean Howard, Robert Rich and Joseph Tracy
The onset of COVID-19 in spring 2020 prompted an unprecedented rapid rise in the unemployment rate. However, a popular and widely cited wage measure—average hourly earnings (AHE)—rose sharply as the health crisis grew.
February 4, 2021
Emily Kerr and Chloe Smith
Regional economic conditions appeared to deteriorate in January after picking up at year-end, data show. Nonetheless, there is optimism regarding the outlook for growth later this year.
February 2, 2021
W. Scott Frame, Brendan McCartney and Eva Steiner
The COVID-19-induced financial market shock in March 2020 significantly disrupted the market for agency mortgage-backed securities.
January 12, 2021
Sewon Hur
Stay-at-home subsidies funded by taxes on consumption and labor—activities that contribute to viral transmission—can simultaneously reduce deaths and increase output.
January 5, 2021
Sam Dannels, W. Scott Frame, Kristopher Gerardi and Joseph Tracy
Many first-time homebuyers—often with little savings and vulnerable to economic shocks—obtain their mortgages through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan program. Often, these borrowers are moving from apartments and have presumably weighed the costs of renting versus owning.
December 29, 2020
Lutz Kilian
Oil companies have felt compelled to react both in anticipation of new regulatory policies and in response to growing pressure from investors.