In a recent webinar, small business development centers shared how they and the small businesses they serve have incorporated ...

Information the San Francisco Fed collects from businesses and community sources for the Beige Book provides timely insights ...

Twelfth District Business Sentiment presents two qualitative indexes that track the views of business leaders across the western United States—the SF Fed Business Sentiment Index and the SF Fed ...

President Daly shared her latest insights on both the US and Alaska economy with Alaska Public Media news host Ava White.

It’s a pleasure to be back in Alaska and to be here at the Anchorage Economic Summit. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time. I see many familiar faces, people I have known for a long time ...

Topic models are a simple and popular tool for the statistical analysis of textual data. Their identification and estimation is typically enabled by assuming the existence of anchor words; that is, ...

President Daly shared her latest insights on the Fed’s path forward amid continued uncertainty with Reuters’ Ann Saphir. The ...

We present new monthly U.S. city-level and national measures of worker and firm search from 1900 to 1938, derived from ...

New data suggest that net migration into the United States has dropped sharply in 2025 from its historical highs, falling well below previous estimates.

Thomas M. Mertens, vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, stated his views on the current economy and the outlook as of July 17, 2025.

Using novel measures of information acquisition, we document causal evidence of a feedback loop between firms’ credit access and information acquisition. To examine the macroeconomic implications of ...