Is the line between fiscal policy and monetary policy becoming blurred again? Learn more about how the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department reached an accord that permitted the Fed to pursue an independent monetary policy more than 50 years ago.
While we have a broad research agenda, the Richmond Fed focuses on eight key areas of economic study: Consumer Finance, Economic Growth and Business Cycles, Financial Markets and Institutions, Inflation and Monetary Policy, Labor Markets, Monetary History, Payments and Policy, and Regional Economics.
Meet an Economist - Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte
Senior economist Pierre Sarte discusses how economics provides a way of organizing one's thinking about what we observe in our everyday lives.
Fifth District Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions
Farm loan demand contracted at a slower pace while farmland prices edged lower in the first quarter of 2009.
Carolinas Survey of Business Activity
Overall business activity in the region varied in June.