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Forward guidance and quantitative easing became important tools for the Federal Reserve in the Great Recession, but received mixed reviews as to their effectiveness.

Acyclical factors may be responsible for core personal consumption expenditures price index inflation reaching the Fed’s 2% target in July.

The U.S. labor market doesn’t have much more room to tighten, according to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said U.S. policy makers ought to be gradually lifting interest rates to bring an economy that’s running above potential in for a soft landing.

In her first remarks as a monetary policy maker, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly said that she favors continued gradual interest-rate increases as the labor market overshoots full employment and inflation comes in near-goal.

A flattening yield curve increases the risk of a recession, and research by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests a one-in-three chance the yield curve inverts by yearend.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco announced Friday Mary C. Daly was named president and chief executive officer, effective October 1, 2018.

While flattening yield curves may signal a rising risk for recession, the curve that has proven most accurate in foretelling a downturn is far from inverting.

Gross domestic product won’t rebound to levels predicted before the Great Recession, researchers write in the latest Economic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Bullard says the Fed should be sending signals that the policy rate is near or at neutral.

While the Federal Open Market Committee will raise interest rates a total of three or four times this year, interest rates will remain low by historical standards.

The Federal Reserve’s policy-making panel is about to get a hawkish mid-year reshuffle.

A total of 3-4 rate hikes this year remains viable, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said in a televised interview Friday.

John Williams, who takes the helm of the powerful Federal Reserve Bank of New York in June, played down risks the yield curve would become inverted as the U.S. central bank gradually raises interest rates.

The Federal Reserve is facing a backlash over its lack of diversity in key positions after it emerged this weekend that John Williams, the current president of the San Francisco regional branch, is a front-runner to succeed William Dudley as head of the powerful New York Fed.

While the current economic situation can be called “unique,” Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco researchers believe the yield curve inverting would signal an upcoming slowdown.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said he isn’t altering his view on the U.S. economy or preference for a continued gradual rate hike path after several days of volatile markets.

The Federal Reserve is not behind the curve and will not overreact to economic growth, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said Friday.

Dragged down by prices not sensitive to the economy, inflation should rise next year, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams says.

Modest gains in health-care prices have kept inflation levels low, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, released Monday.