The Lombard Review

Economy

The Federal Reserve, inflation, jobs and growth: analysis of the economic cycle and the data behind it.

The Fed hikes, and its chair skips the dot plot

Missing chair projection as signal

The rate hike the Fed can't avoid

Inflation persistence forces tightening

Special Report

Labor Day: Hiring is strong enough to worry the Fed

Strong labour data forces tightening

Blowout jobs, tighter Fed

Rule-implied rate above policy

Is the oil shock turning into wage inflation?

Second-round effects test

The market bets on a Warsh hike

Hike odds from forward curve

Three Fed officials want a hike

Minority votes signal next move

One tariff ends, another begins

Legal basis change, similar rate

Is it oil or tariffs pushing prices up?

Decomposing two supply shocks

The Fed's hawks start to multiply

Dissent build-up before hike

What does Warsh want?

Chair change as structural break

The world is running down its oil reserves

Inventory drawdown clock

Diesel prices are the warning sign

Diesel tightness leads core

Powell's final meeting

Chair transition risk

When will importers get their money?

Liquidation status drives timing

The ceasefire that didn't open the strait

Blockade replaces open conflict

Asia pays the most for Hormuz

Asia bears most crude exposure

The Fed faces a war shock

Supply-shock reaction function

Emergency oil can't fill the gap

Stock release vs flow loss

How much will oil push up prices?

Second-round effects by regime

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs

Legal regime break in tariff series

The job numbers, rewritten again

Benchmark revision reshapes trend

Who is Kevin Warsh?

Smaller balance sheet traded for cuts

The job market's confusing signals

Missing months break SA filters

Special Report

Boxing Day: Holiday shopping with missing data

Missing CPI month biases data

The inflation data with a missing month

Carry-forward prices bias CPI

Special Report

Christmas: The boom that arrived late

Delayed data overstates momentum

A 4.3% boom, reported late

Delayed GDP after shutdown

One cut, three dissents

Voting dispersion as signal

QE by another name?

Reserve management purchases

One speech that flipped the Fed odds

December odds swing on one speech

The longest shutdown's lasting cost

Unrecovered federal activity

The Fed stops shrinking its balance sheet

QT end timing

One inflation report in a data blackout

Single CPI release during shutdown

Flying blind: no jobs report

Private data substitutes for BLS

A shutdown would leave the Fed flying blind

Shutdown halts statistics

The Fed cuts, cautiously

Insurance easing; 50bp dissent

Trump's man joins the Fed

Appointments shift reaction function

911,000 jobs that never existed

Benchmark resets cut path

Special Report

Anniversary: Three years, what we got right

Three-year forecast audit

Just 22,000 jobs

Immigration curbs lower job trend

Special Report

Labor Day: Hiring has stalled

Hiring freeze without layoffs

Trump moves to fire a Fed governor

Governance risk lifts long end

Powell opens the door to cuts

Labour downside outweighs inflation

Switzerland's 39% shock

Concentrated export exposure

How 258,000 jobs disappeared

Late-response revision bias

Trump fires the jobs data chief

Statistical agency independence

Special Report

Independence Day: The real cost of the "big beautiful bill"

Growth feedback assumptions

A divided Fed

Bimodal SEP distribution

Oil jumps as Israel strikes Iran

Oil shock into inflation swaps