Tag: household finance
The Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) summarizes changes in family finances between 2019 and 2022 – three years of COVID, economic disruption, and unprecedented fiscal support – and 2022 was also a terrible year in terms of stock and bond returns. Despite the unusual circumstances, employment remained strong, the stock market –…
Rising asset markets helped the rich and government payments let the poor break even. We just finished a study that looks at how the pandemic affected the finances of vulnerable households as well as those with more resources, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The PSID is a panel survey, whic…