Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Availability of Credit to Small Businesses, September 2012 - Accessible Version Figure 1. Total debt and equity of nonfinancial businesses, 1980

and/or proposed tariffs. Consumer spending rose in most regions, with ...and/or air, rail and/or trucking shipments. Agricultural conditions were

and, if anything, have tended to rise at shorter tenures. Most of the ...the first of a long series of cuts. The mid-1990s episode is somewhat

Price increases remained generally subdued and there were only scattered...prices, but Dallas observed that oil price futures pointed to a near-term

compared with other recoveries. Should we be surprised by this sluggish...the latest available data), and the local-area unemployment rate also

best- preserved paper copies, scanning those copies,1 and then making ...Prices ....... .. . - 21 Consumer Prices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

prices, and moderate long-term interest rates. The Committee seeks to ...price stability over the longer run has declined relative to its historical

value—and assumptions about other factors likely to affect economic outcomes...best satisfy his or her individual interpretation of the statutory mandate

Key Rural Employment Trends Between 2000 and 2009… • 568,000 rural wage-and-salary...Compared to Goetz and Rupasingha (2009), results are mixed – Higher returns

And, while we still see the level of employment rising and falling over