Media

Global & US Policy Media

• [CNBC] Higher mortgage rates push application denial rates up — Coverage of recent research detailing the interest rate thresholds driving mortgage underwriting rejections. (06/05/2026)

• [Mortgage Point] St. Louis Fed: Increasing Rates Driving Up Mortgage Denial Thresholds (06/04/2026)

• [Ainvest] Mortgage Application Denials Rise Amid Higher Interest Rates: Study (06/04/2026)

• [CNET Money] Mortgage refinance rates continue their downward trend (11/20/2023)

• [CNET Money] Mortgage rates retreat again. That's good news for home seekers (11/20/2023)

• [MNI Market News] Fed's Garriga urges stay tough on inflation (08/18/2023)

• [MNI Market News] Inflation proves more persistent (03/09/2023)

• [Washington Post] Millennials shut out of the housing market, again (11/30/2022)

• [Bloomberg Radio] Conversations with the St. Louis Fed — Live policy and macro-housing interview with Kathleen Hays. (10/19/2022)

• [The Hill] Real estate trusts pay out big home dividends as builders bemoan ‘housing recession’ (08/15/2022)

• [MNI Market News] Risk of Inflation Stays Higher Longer (07/13/2022)

• [Financial Times] ‘Payment shock’ awaits US home buyers as mortgage rates climb — Feature commentary on structural shifts in the American housing market. (03/30/2022)

• [S&P Global] St. Louis Fed hires Carlos Garriga as new research director (12/11/2020)

• [St. Louis Business Journal] St. Louis Fed names successor to Waller, who is joining Fed's Board of Governors (12/11/2020)

Spanish & European Market Coverage

• [Capital Radio] FED St. Louis: Los precios de energía seguirán altos un tiempo — Análisis del impacto del shock energético derivado de tensiones geopolíticas sobre el crecimiento y la inflación. (14/04/2026)

• [Capital Radio] ¿Cuál es la "única solución" para la vivienda y el alquiler? (17/02/2026)

• [La Vanguardia] España paga sueldos bajos, pero su coste de la vida lo fija el turista — Entrevista en profundidad en 'La Contra' sobre dinámicas espaciales y turismo. (22/07/2025)

• [Capital Radio] ¿Recesión en Estados Unidos y crisis de deuda? Yo soy optimista (15/04/2025)

• [Capital Radio] El mercado americano seguirá siendo atractivo para los inversores (29/11/2024)

• [Capital Radio] FED de St. Louis: "Yo no esperaría una inflación al 2% en 2024" (25/09/2023)

• [Negocios TV] No vemos una recesión en el corto plazo (21/06/2023)

• [Negocios TV] Podríamos bajar los tipos si la inflación converge al objetivo en la 2ª mitad de 2023 (12/07/2022)

• [Capital Radio] Nuestra prioridad es mantener la inflación bajo control (20/06/2022)

• [Capital Radio] La reunión de la FED de marzo será bastante viva (15/02/2022)

• [Capital Radio] ¿Cómo reducir la inflación: pinchando un globo o lanzando una bola de plomo? (22/02/2022)

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Housing Market & Credit Dynamics

• [On the Economy] Failing the threshold: The impact rising interest rates mortgage borrowing (05/28/2026)

• [On the Economy] America Underbuilt Inc (04/08/2026)

• [On the Economy] When Houses Outrun Paychecks: The Lost Decades of Housing Affordability (02/12/2026)

• [St. Louis Fed] Housing Market Outlook 2023 — Special policy address and digital multimedia briefing. (03/11/2023)

• [Economic Synopses] Construction Permits and Future Housing Supply Implications for 2020 (No. 27, 2019)

• [Economic Synopses] Are US Housing Markets Hot, Hot, Hot? (No. 21, 2019)

• [The FRED Blog] Back and forth between buying and building houses (12/05/2019)

• [On the Economy] House Hunting in a Period of Social Distancing (04/01/2020)

• [On the Economy] Housing Recoveries without Homeowners: A Global Perspective (04/12/2018)

• [The FRED Blog] A Housing Recovery without Homeowners (03/19/2018)

• [Món Empresarial] The Connection Between Mortgages and Monetary Policy — Written in Catalan. (11/18/2015)

• [On the Economy] What Were Some of the Lasting Effects Caused by the Recent Housing Crisis? (11/24/2015)

• [VoxEU] The Cost of Interest Rate Liftoff for Homeowners: Why Central Bankers Should Focus on Inflation (10/01/2015)

• [On the Economy] A Look at Household Debt around the Great Recession (03/17/2015)

• [On the Economy] Mortgage Debt and the Great Recession (03/16/2015)

• [On the Economy] Homeownership and House Prices No Longer in Sync (12/29/2014)

• [St. Louis Fed] Household Debt in America: A Look across Generations over Time — Dialogue with the FED Public Lecture Series. (11/04/2014)

• [Economic Synopses] The Recent Boom In House Prices: Why Is This Time Different? (No. 32, 2013)

• [Economic Synopses] Measuring The Contribution Of Construction To The Slow Recovery (No. 6, 2013)

• [Economic Synopses] How Can QE3 Affect The Housing Market? (No. 31, 2012)

• [Economic Synopses] Examining The Housing Crisis By Home Price Tier (No. 34, 2009)

• [Economic Synopses] Lending Standards In Mortgage Markets (No. 23, 2009)

• [Economic Synopses] Boom And Gloom In Housing Markets: The Sequel (No. 12, 2008)

Monetary Policy & Inflation Dynamics

• [The FRED Blog] Inflation and the Cost of Tighter Monetary Policy (07/03/2023)

• [Economic Synopses] Inflation, Part 3: What is the Fed's Current Goal? Has the Fed Met Its Inflation Mandate? (No. 25, 2022)

• [Economic Synopses] Inflation, Part 2: How Do We Construct and Choose an Index? (No. 16, 2022)

• [Economic Synopses] Inflation, Part 1: What Is it, Exactly? (No. 15, 2022)

• [Economic Synopses] Putting Recent Inflation in Historical Context (No. 12, 2021)

• [Economic Synopses] A Simple Evaluation of Two Decades of Inflation Targeting: Lessons for the New Monetary Policy Strategy (No. 1, 2021)

• [On the Economy] The Yield Curve as a Predictor of Future Growth (04/15/2021)

• [On the Economy] Evaluating Two Decades Inflation Targeting (04/08/2021)

• [The FRED Blog] From Inflation Targeting to Average Inflation Targeting: The Fed's New Long-Run Monetary Framework (11/09/2020)

• [On the Economy] Who Wants to Bet Against the Yield Curve (09/30/2019)

• [On the Economy] What Real Interest Rates Tell about the Recession to Follow (04/04/2019)

• [Economic Synopses] Predicting the Yield Curve Inversions that Predict Recession: Part 1 (No. 9, 2019)

• [Economic Synopses] Predicting the Yield Curve Inversions that Predict Recession: Part 2 (No. 10, 2019)

• [The FRED Blog] The data behind the fear of yield curve inversions (10/11/2018)

• [VoxEU] Keeping Policy Rates Persistently Low: Implications for the Monetary Transmission Mechanism (10/16/2016)

Labor Markets & Economic Shocks

• [On the Economy] Beyond the 9 to 5: Decoding the Overemployment Trend (03/03/2025)

• [On the Economy] Compensation Patterns of Overemployed Workers (12/18/2023)

• [On the Economy] Overemployed Workers? Trends on Multiple Jobholders (11/06/2023)

• [On the Economy] The FRED team talks innovation (08/04/2022)

• [The FRED Blog] The Health of Labor Markets Post-Pandemic: The Supply Perspective (07/26/2021)

• [The FRED Blog] The Health of Labor Markets Post-Pandemic: The Demand Perspective (07/22/2021)

• [The FRED Blog] The Impact of Social Distancing on Leisure and Hospitality: State-Level Data from the BLS (07/09/2020)

• [Working Paper] The Social Value of a Vaccine for the COVID-19 Epidemic (05/13/2020)

• [Working Paper] Optimal Management of the COVID-19 Epidemic: When and How To Reopen the Economy? (05/13/2020)

• [On the Economy] Ready for the Pandemic? Households Debt before the Covid-19 Shock (05/13/2020)

• [On the Economy] How Closing Restaurants and Hotels Spills Over to Total Employment (04/02/2020)

• [Economic Synopses] Measuring (Most Of) The Slack In The Labor Market (No. 22, 2014)

• [Economic Synopses] Where Is The Slack In The Labor Market? (No. 13, 2014)

• [On the Economy] Measuring (Most of) the Slack in the Labor Market (10/09/2014)

• [On the Economy] The Economic Recovery with Malfunctioning Sectors (04/07/2014)

• [Economic Synopses] Mind The Regional Output Gap (No. 22, 2013)

• [Economic Synopses] The Macroeconomy Of The U.S. States: On The Road To Recovery? (No. 11, 2013)