Selected Websites - Economics
- Business Cycle Indicators
- From the Conference Board, "... a report commonly called the "leading indicators" or "leading economic indicators," this index, its components, and two other composite indexes--the coincident and lagging indexes--are used by economists to measure business cycles and as an early warning system for recessions."
- Cost of Living Calculator
- "This gizmo uses the historical Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (CPI-U) to convert dollar values between different years. This allows you to compare the real buying power of historical dollar amounts, adjusted for inflation." From News Engin, Inc.
- Daily Treasury Statements
- The Daily Treasury Statements summarize the financial activities of the Federal Government and off-budget Federal entities in accordance with the Budget of the U.S. Government. Available in both PDF and ASCII format. Uploaded daily except for weekends and holidays. The electronic version of the DTS is available three days after its printed paper counterpart. The visual display of the PDF version is identical to its printed counterpart.
- Eco5.com
- Free website containing historical economic data, forecasts and market overviews
- Economic growth resources
- Links to a wide variety of resources related to economic growth, including data sets and journals.
- EH.net
- EH.net is the home of Economic History Services on the web. Includes a wide array of historical time series data available free. Also houses the Economic History fileserver, and contains resources including bibliographies, course syllabi, directories and book reviews.
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Regional economic data and analysis can be found on the web sites of the 12 Federal Reserve district banks. The Federal Reserve Board of Governors site serves as a gateway to the web sites of the individual federal reserve banks. Also links to the Fed's Beige Book, which analyzes the overall economic prospects of each of the districts.
- Government Statistics Briefing Room
- The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies. All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values. Includes:
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- Institute for International Economics
- The Institute for International Economics is a "private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy." This web site contains short abstracts and press releases of books published by the Institute. Speeches, testimonies and essays by the staff at the Institute on a variety of international economics issues are also available as is a collection of working papers published since 1994.
- Monthly Economic Indicators
- From the U.S. government, provides statistical data including Gross Domestic Product, consumer and producer price indexes, retail and wholesale trade, industrial production, building permits and housing starts, new construction and foreign trade.
- NetEc
- "NetEc is a volunteer effort to improve the communication of research in economics via electronic media. It consists of:
- Information on printed working papers on BibEc,
- Data about electronic working papers on WoPEc,
- Code for Economics and Econometrics on CodEc,
- World Wide Web Resources in Economics on WebEc." -- NetEc
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