Weekly Reports Bundle Economic and Financial Data
Economic Highlights and Financial Highlights are weekly digests that provide summaries of data releases such as employment, manufacturing, consumer spending, and financial markets. Subscribe to RSS or e-mail notification.

Atlanta Fed Promotes Gooding to Executive Vice President Over RPO
Marie Gooding has been named executive vice president for the Atlanta Fed with responsibility for the Federal Reserve Banks' Retail Payments Office (RPO). In this role, Gooding will serve as the RPO's manager with responsibility for the strategic direction of the Federal Reserve's check and automated clearinghouse (ACH) processing operations.

The Accumulation of Bank-Owned Homes
How have different metropolitan areas been affected by bank-owned properties? Dan Immergluck of Georgia Tech discusses what happens once these homes go into foreclosure and what can be done to return these homes to productive use. (MP3 14:31)

Regional Economic Update on the Southeast for October 2009
Track economic developments in the six Southeastern states with the latest reports and analysis of various data series, including the D6 Factor, a broad measure of the region's economic conditions. Subscribe to e-mail alerts.

Looking Beyond Foreclosures: Recent Trends in Residential Finance and Housing Markets, Part I
The mortgage crisis is changing the character of housing finance, with several important implications for affordable and fair housing policy and practice. Listen to related podcast

Early Childhood Education, Economic Development, and the Business Community
Dennis Lockhart, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, speaks on early childhood education at a conference at the University of Miami.

Beige Book
Published two weeks prior to each Federal Open Market Committee meeting, the Beige Book reports on economic conditions in each Federal Reserve District.

On the Bubble: When Real Estate's Long Haul Took a Shortcut
While home prices kept appreciating handsomely, homeowners thought they were on a surefire path to personal wealth. The market swoon brought a sobering realization: What goes up can come down.

Is More Still Better? Revisiting the Sixth District Coincident Indicator
A revised version of the D6 Factor model of the southeastern economy is better than the original at describing contemporary economic activity and allows for historical comparisons across several business cycles.

Research Centers Offer Wealth of Online Information
The Atlanta Fed has three research centers that focus on topics including regional economic activity, financial innovation and stability, and forecasting models used to study and formulate monetary policy.