Regional Economist

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When a new issue of The Regional Economist is published, a new poll is posted on our web...

Adrian Peralta-Alva has been an economist in the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis...

The first three letters are in response to "Unconventional Oil Production: Stuck in a Rock and a Hard...

In Mayor Dickie Kennemore's telling, Osceola, Ark., had already been through a half century of economic peaks and...

Following a burst of activity late last year and early this year, the recovery hit the summer doldrums....

State tax revenue continued to decline in fiscal year (FY) 2010 for the Eighth District states as well...

HEADNOTE Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy...

Recently the key concern in world financial markets has been the extent to which the sovereign debt crisis...

European sovereign debt concerns took global policymakers by surprise early this year. The markets panicked, fearful of a...

Conventional wisdom suggests that health improves during good economic times and worsens during tough economic times. When the...

In late December 2007, most economists realized that the economy was slowing. However, very few predicted an outright...

It's safe to say that the past few years have been interesting for the Federal Reserve System, particularly...