Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin will speak to the CFA Society Baltimore on September 22, 2026, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Why hike? The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate from Congress: price stability and maximum employment. The FOMC weighs each ...

How do states determine high-demand jobs? Fifth District states and jurisdictions have different approaches, but health care ...

The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate from Congress: price stability and maximum employment. To better understand how the regional economy is faring on both fronts, we regularly look to our wide ...

The Hornstein-Kudlyak-Lange Non-Employment Index (NEI) was 7.6 percent in August 2026, essentially unchanged from July 2026. The index decreased by 0.2 percentage point compared to August 2025. The ...

The share of employed Americans who hold more than one job has climbed each year since its April 2020 low, peaking at 6.0 percent at the end of 2025 before easing to 5.5 percent by July 2026. The ...

In July, we explored how fuel prices have changed for consumers in the Fifth District and found that changes were not geographically uniform. Although crude oil prices had decreased somewhat when that ...

This section features timely and topical questions asked by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond as part of its monthly business surveys. These special questions vary each month and are designed to ...

FedNow is a real-time payment service launched by the Federal Reserve in July 2023 that has grown to over 1,700 participating financial institutions. It competes with Real-Time Payments (RTP), a ...