Real economic expansion pauses

Economic conditions - United States

Economic expansion in perspective

Economic conditions - United States ; Economic development

Expansion in economic activity

Economic conditions ; Industrial productivity

Economic expansion in 1954-55

Economic conditions - United States ; Consumption (Economics) ; Investments

Prices during the economic expansion

Prices ; Industrial productivity

Money and credit in economic expansion

Bank loans ; Money supply ; Bank reserves

Economic policy uncertainty and small business expansion

Is uncertainty causing small business owners to behave in ways that are hindering the recovery? That question is at the center of an intense public debate. Though reasonable arguments have been presented on both sides, there is not much empirical evidence to draw on. To contribute some to the discussion, we investigated the statistical association between data on small business plans to hire and make capital expenditures and a measure of policy uncertainty. Our analysis suggests that uncertainty is adversely affecting small business owners’ expansion plans.Small business ; Economic conditions - United States

How Working age People with Disabilities Fared over the 1990s Business Cycle

Using data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that while the longest peacetime economic expansion in United States history has increased the economic well-being of most Americans, the majority of working age men and women with disabilities have been left behind. Robust economic growth since the recession of the early 1990s has lifted nearly all percentiles of the income distribution of working age men and men without disabilities beyond their previous business cycle peak levels of 1989. In contrast, the majority of working age men and women with disabilities did not share in economic growth over this period. Not only did their employment and labor earnings fall during the recession of the early 1990s but their employment and earnings continued to fall during the economic expansion that followed

Expansion in economic activity

Economic conditions

Economic expansion in the central Mississippi valley

Economic development ; Federal Reserve District, 8th