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In past posts, we’ve looked at movement in household assets such as pensions and direct holdings of stocks and household liabilities such as home mortgages and consumer credit. Today, we look at how unexpected inflation can affect the value of these … Continue reading →

California has long been the heart of the film industry, but the data show a shift has been under way. The FRED graph above plots the fraction of workers in the motion picture and sound recording industry who are located … Continue reading →

Our previous post looked at the general category of office and stationery supplies, which includes printing paper. Inflation-adjusted sales are now just one-fifth of what they were in the early 2000s. Today’s post looks more closely at paperboard, a sturdier … Continue reading →

The FRED Blog Team remembers the introduction of computers and printers in the workplace: Printing became effortless. Now we rely almost entirely on digital files and hardly ever print paper copies anymore. So, given that most documents remain in digital … Continue reading →

Drinking an alcoholic beverage over the December holidays is a common tradition. A less-common, but growing tradition is to abstain the following month in dry January. These two consumption patterns are supposed to happen regularly at the same time of … Continue reading →