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Issue 8: Temperature + Precipitation Rise → Economic Damages → Inequality

In past issues of Fed Lit, we’ve discussed studies showing the pathways through which climate events can affect economic damages. Here’s another study…

Dec 19, 2025 • Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson

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Issue 7: Extreme Heat → Decreased Labor Supply + Labor Productivity

The summer of 2025’s heat waves took a toll on workers. Many of them—warehouse employees, agricultural laborers, and low-wage workers who spend the day…

Oct 1, 2025 • Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson

Issue #6: Adaptive Inflation Targeting with David Barmes

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Aug 12, 2025

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Issue 5: Supply-Side Climate Inflation → Adaptive Inflation Targeting (Policy Proposal)

This month, we deviate from our academic reading list to discuss a policy paper that proposes a new monetary policy tool to address persistent…

Jul 8, 2025 • Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson

Issue 4: Global Emissions → Sovereign Creditworthiness → Debt Costs

As economic chatter in the last several weeks reacts to the effects of the recent downgrade by the credit-rating agency Moody’s on US creditworthiness…

Jun 4, 2025 • Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson

Issue 3: Climate Risk → Credit Market Contraction

This month we’re looking at an ambitious working paper from January of this year. The authors zero in on climate risk as it affects credit markets…

Apr 30, 2025 • Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson

Issue 2: Climate Risk + Economic Policy Uncertainty → Economic Stagnation

Our focus paper this month models the impact of temperature increases and temperature volatility on economic activity in various states using monthly…

Mar 21, 2025 • Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson

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Fed Lit is a monthly newsletter from the Roosevelt Institute offering essential climate reading for Federal Reserve staff, leadership, and other interested parties.