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Metro Monitor - September 2013

September 25, 2013, Alec Friedhoff and Siddharth Kulkarni

How severe was the Great Recession in your area? How strongly have you rebounded? And how much farther does your region have to go until it has fully recovered? Metro Monitor tracks the performance of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas on these questions, presenting data for four key indicators—jobs, unemployment, gross product, and home prices—over three time periods: the recession, the recovery, and the full course of the recession from the pre-recession period to most recent quarter. For each time period, we present rankings for each indicator (1 indicates the best performance, 100 the worst) as well as an “overall” ranking that reflects metro performance across the four indicators.

  • In the News

    Well, you know, everybody thinks, well, I'm doing everything right. The region is booming. The houses are selling. The jobs are growing. And, in fact, what happens is that if you grow in just one way, let's say tourism, and then you face a contraction in tourism, then you pay a bigger price than you would if you had more broadly grown or you'd grown at a slower rate and had a sense of ... having to hustle a bit for those jobs.

    May 30, 2013, Robert E. Lang, National Public Radio
  • Interview | NPR

    Home Prices on the Rise Across U.S.

    May 29, 2013, Robert E. Lang

  • In the News

    Renters can change the culture of a neighborhood.

    May 2, 2013, Alan Mallach, The Olympian
  • Interview | The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

    American Households and the Continuing Economic Recovery

    January 24, 2013, Karen Dynan and Mark S. Sniderman

  • In the News

    Home prices haven't gone anywhere in many parts of the country. For households for whom the home was the main way in which they had saved, those households have not seen much of a recovery, and it's unclear how much of a recovery they are going to see.

    July 23, 2012, Karen Dynan, U.S. News & World Report
  • In the News

    Amid a patchy and still anemic recovery nationwide, the Mountain West’s metropolitan areas performed somewhat better than the rest of the country in the first quarter of 2012. While there is definite variation, the region continued its steady recovery in the early months of the year.

    June 27, 2012, Mark Muro, Phoenix Business Journal
  • In the News

    Anywhere we move from here in terms of supporting the housing market will be more expensive, so politically there will be pushback—which means there is a danger that we will settle in with the existing system for many years.

    April 23, 2012, Douglas J. Elliott, Reuters
  • In the News

    The uncertainty surrounding the future of the mortgage finance system has impeded the rebound of the housing market and the private housing-finance market. It’s just really hard for the players to make decisions when you don’t know what the rules are going to be in the future.

    April 18, 2012, Karen Dynan, Bloomberg
  • In the News

    I don't think people have fully appreciated how deep the hole is. The Great Recession is going to be living in our collective homes for many more years to come.

    April 8, 2012, Michael Greenstone, Reuters

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