FRED Blog: How large is the US life insurance industry? fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/10/how-...

FRED Blog: Regional house price growth fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/10/regi...

FRED Blog: Real GDP growth by state: Second quarter 2025 fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/10/real...

When the federal government shuts down, FRED continues being available but of course may not get updates from federal agencies.

It is time again for authors to make sure their profiles are up to date before we compute the monthly statistics. authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Publishers can also index their books, and the associated book chapters, in RePEc, but relatively few take advantage of it so far. Encourage your publisher to participate in RePEc. ideas.repec.org/i/b.html ideas.repec.org/i/h.html #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: Trends in the US distribution of net worth fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/tren...

More chocolate, more Nobel prizes https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/

We are fiddling with a lot of the code underlying RePEc these days, so please alert us to any issues or typos. For errors and omissions in content, though, you need to contact the relevant publisher, contact details are provided on the content pages (look for "correction"). #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: A look across European postal prices fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/a-lo...

RePEc offers on BlueSky over 100 bot accounts that disseminate new economics papers, carefully selected by human editors. The most popular one posts ... random papers. random-repec-paper.bsky.social , whose starter pack links to the others.

There are now over 72'000 authors registered with RePEc. Get your missing colleagues or co-authors on board so that we can reach 75'000! ideas.repec.org/i/e.html #RePEc #EconSky

Who are the economists most central to the profession? CollEc provides answers from co-authorship network analysis. Bonus: find the shortest path between any two economists. collec.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: FOMC Summary of Economic Projections, September 2025 fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/fomc...

The RePEc Biblio is a curated list of the most important papers on various topics. You can help expand its scope by volunteering to edit your topics of expertise biblio.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

AI bots continue to hit RePEc servers hard, generating 10 times the usual traffic on average. But the servers are managing it well so far. Can anyone ask them to send us a check for our infrastructure costs? #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: The ups and downs in credit card borrowing lines fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/the-...

RePEc has no staff and is entirely run by volunteers. Thus it relies heavily on user contributions such as publishers indexing their works, authors managing their profiles, editors selecting works, and more. All this is monitored, of course. repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Do not forget to announce your online seminars on the Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar ideas.repec.org/v/ #RePEc #EconSky

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative lives on at worthwhileblog.ca

FRED Blog: Units of acreage of potatoes: Acres vs. hectares Keep your eyes peeled on the data units fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/unit...

When economists die, we record that in their profile and add any posthumous publications. But first we need to know about their deaths. We find some when resolving bad email addresses, but most likely are missed. Please tell us about omissions. ideas.repec.org/i/erip.html #RePEc #EconSky

Twice a year, we email people registered on the RePEc Author Service to alert them to possible works they could claim. We also delete any accounts with invalid addresses, as they serve no purpose. authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: Trends in US labor force participation rates for men fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/tren...

There are over 3.5 million journal articles indexed in RePEc, for total of 5.1 million items. ideas.repec.org/i/a.html #RePEc #EconSky

The CitEc project has been extracting references and matching them across documents indexed in RePEc since 2001. CitEc.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Need your fix of new economics papers in your field? On BlueSky? Here is a starter pack for that. bsky.app/starter-pack... #RePEc #economics

Also released today is a new literature review, looking at the different character of basic research in the public and private sectors, and cites studies that show how the two work together, not separately, to bring about American innovation. You can read it here: www.aaas.org/news/researc...

Today the House committee marked up their LHHS bill, which means all of the House appropriations bills have had their report language released and I could update the House R&D estimates in my report. You can find the updated report on the same page as before: www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

There are 3504 authors with expired email addresses registered with RePEc. We try to fix them, but prefer when authors prevent that or when coauthors alerted about that in their monthly RePEc email help us. ideas.repec.org/i/elost.html #RePEc #EconSky

RePEc Blog: RePEc in August 2025 blog.repec.org/2025/09/08/r... #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: The trade balance, the dollar, and trade policy fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/the-...

The number of economists who list their BlueSky handle on their RePEc profile has reached 40% of those with Xwitter. (and invalid ones not get unlisted for the latter.) ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h... #RePEc #EconSky

I occasionally get requests to remove a page from IDEAS. Abstract pages are managed by the publishers and they need to remove the metadata they prepare for #RePEc. If I delete a page it will pop up again the next day and the many other services using RePEc data will still have the info #EconSky

FRED Blog: How full are airplanes? fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/09/how-...

Do you have questions about RePEc and its services? There is an extensive FAQ section. If anything is missing, let us know. ideas.repec.org/help.html #RePEc #EconSky

Curious about what economists have to say about current events? Try searching the economic literature here: ideas.repec.org/search.html #RePEc #EconSky

Have you used your phone today? You have game theory to thank. Building on 30 years of federally funded research, three economists designed a new auctions process for the FCC that revolutionized how Americans stay connected. Read more: https://www.goldengooseaward.org/01awardees/auction-design

Time to make sure your RePEc author profile is up-to-date before we compute the statistics. Any works waiting to be claimed? Affiliation still correct? authors.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

If the alumni of a graduate program are listed in the RePEc Genealogy, a compilation of their publications is listed on the department's EDIRC page. You can add your students as long as they are registered with RePEc. genealogy.repec.org edirc.repec.org #RePEc #EconSky

Looking for seminar speakers this Fall? This tool can help you identifying them ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/spea... #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: Revisions to BLS employment data fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/08/revi...

Amazing event.

The measures introduced over a month ago to contain the API robots overwhelming some RePEc services seem to still work well. For humans, this unfortunately means that some features are not available, but they would also not be available under the ravages of robots. A win-win? #RePEc #EconSky

A search for "central bank independence" yields 1833 results on RePEc ideas.repec.org/search.html #RePEc #EconSky

The St. Louis Fed Research Division is already recruiting Research Associates starting in Spring or Summer 2026. Great for top undergraduates who want to get some research experience before going on to a PhD, and we have a great track record of top program placements. Deadline is October 15, 2025.

FRED Blog: Overdue mortgage payments by property type New data insights from the Philadelphia Fed fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/08/over...

IDEAS adds social cards when you link a web page in a social post. That was failing too frequently, but now it seems to work flawlessly. Try it out the next time you refer to a paper in a post. ideas.repec.org/b/hay/hetboo... #RePEc #EconSky

On IDEAS, you can search for "AuthorOne AuthorTwo (Year)" and likely get results. Try with Smith (1776). ideas.repec.org/search.html #RePEc #EconSky

FRED Blog: The rise and fall of excess retirements fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/08/the-...