Macroeconomic Data

GDP

• Real GDP

• Consumption

• Gross Private Domestic Investment

  • Total Economy Database (Conference Board)

  • Total Economy Database (University of Groningen)

Measures of the health of the economy

• • Capacity Utilization of total industry (82% is a magic number)

Labor Markets

• Population

• Civilian Labor Force

• Civilian employment/population ratio

• Unemployment Rate

  • Duration of Unemployment: Median, Mean

Monetary Factors

• Fed Funds Rate

  • Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve - Wow....

• Excess Reserves of Depository Institutions

• Monetary Base

• M1 Money Stock

• M2 Money Stock

  • Cleveland Fed on Fed's Monetary Policy Stance and the Bailout

Great Sources

• • Knoema.com World Data Atlas

  • Penn World Tables - Comparisons of the economies of the world's nations

  • EuroStat (European data)

  • Brookings Institution Macroeconomic Data

• Inflation around the world (Cleveland Fed database)

  • IMF Data, IMF Datamapper

• World Bank

• The Economic Report of the President

  • Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA, part of the US Department of Commerce)

  • US Statistical Abstract (from the US Census Bureau)

  • National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

• CIA World Fact Book

  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  • Economy Track (from the Economic Policy Institute think tank)

• Exchange Rate Data

• International Inflation Rates

• Eco5.com

• HumanProgress