Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity stabilized in February after contracting in January, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
February 26, 2024
Government-funded R&D produces long-term productivity gains
Our estimates indicate that government-funded R&D accounts for roughly one quarter of all business sector productivity growth since World War II, including one quarter of the deceleration in productivity growth since the late 1960s.
February 13, 2024
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity contracted in January after stabilizing in December, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
January 29, 2024
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity stabilized in December after contracting in November, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
December 26, 2023
Widening gap between rich and poor poses challenge to U.S.
Economist Jeffrey Fuhrer, a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution and former Boston Fed director of research, discusses the nation’s income and wealth gaps and offers proposals to close them. Fuhrer’s recently published book, “The Myth that Made Us,” explores inequalities in the nation’s economic system.
December 13, 2023
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity contracted in November after two months of expansion, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
November 27, 2023
State output remains distinctly Texan, while jobs mix increasingly resembles the U.S.
Lore and data have historically suggested that Texas is unlike any other place. Over the past 40 years, change has swept the state. Texas’ employment composition has increasingly come to resemble the entirety of the U.S., more so than even California or New York. But Texas economic output is another story.
November 17, 2023
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Growth in Texas factory activity continued in October, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
October 30, 2023
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Growth in Texas factory activity resumed in September, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
September 25, 2023
Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey
Texas factory activity contracted again in August, according to business executives responding to the Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.
August 28, 2023