The FED Said Businesses across the Southeast are reporting rising nonlabor costs, and the most recent surveys show that firms expect their input costs to increase more quickly over the next year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s new Beige Book report on regional economic conditions. Unit costs in September were up 2 percent over […] Read more
The FED Said 2017 Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Disaster-Affected Firms Forty percent of firms in FEMA-designated disaster areas reported losses from recent storms. We examine which firms were hit hardest and how heavily they depend on aid and credit to get back in business. The Small Business Credit Survey (SBCS), an annual survey […] Read more
The FED Said (actually this was from a Fed link to the NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH) Since 2000, gross profit rates in the United States have risen and industry concentration has soared, but these trends are not found in the European Union. Until the late 1990s, most U.S. markets were viewed as highly competitive […] Read more