Websites with Current Information
Bill Goffe's current hypertext guide has links to all known
economic information on the Internet. To use this guide,
click on the site or type of information you want. The first click takes you
to a section of the Goffe document that describes this site. Within or
following his description, there is a link to the site itself. Thus you
can go to any economics location from the Goffe pages. Goffe also describes
the economics listserv discussion groups on the Internet (PolEcon, Femecon,
Tch-econ, Econ-ed, etc.), along with the addresses to join. (Listservs are e-mail
discussion groups that require signing on with an e-mail address to participate.)
This database has lots of data in accessible form: indexes for GDP data, price data, employment data, financial and monetary data, exchange rate and regional data.
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Economagic
Economagic has over 100,000 series, the ability to modify series, run regressions on-line, chart the given or modified series, and has over 8,500 series in excel format. The intent of is to be a one-stop shop for conomic time series data. This site is no longer free for those wishing to download full data series. Instructor subscriptions are available free, however. (by Ted Bos)
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The Dismal Scientist
The Dismal Scientist covers over 65 economic releases from over 15 countries. It also has economic articles and analysis of breaking economic news. It has many tools, such as a dictionary and a calculotor for inflation and time value of money.
Woodrow, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis website, offers information
about the Federal Reserve and the economy, including the entire Beige Book; selected
national and regional data, including data on Ninth District banks; text of
publications; economic
education materials; connection to its Research Department and information about bank
supervision and regulation. Check out "Tracking the Economy" page and the charts from that page!
EconData.Net focuses on regional economic activity on the Web. They have
more than 350 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the
Web's premiere data collections, and their own list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic
data.
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Economics statistics briefing room
Great fast source for up-to-date information. Grab the latest numbers before class!
Entry point to STAT-USA by subscription (information on economic, business, and social/environmental program
data from over 50 Federal source,) and
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (domestic, international,
and regional economic accounts).
This server provides a huge amount of information on population, households, economic indicators, sectors in the economy, Statistical Abstracts, and much more.
Includes the Economic Report of the President, which you can download or search, as well as access the statistical tables from Appendix B as spreadsheet files. Also Changing America -- Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics public database, LABSTAT, provides current and historical data for 26 surveys of labor market, prices, and related conditions, and press releases. Also the source for CPI press release.
This page provides links to summary BEA data and to articles
based on the data:
National programs--including the national income and product accounts (GDP, personal income, etc.) and gross product by industry, international programs--including balance of payments accounts, U.S. direct investment abroad, and foreign direct investment in the United States, and regional programs--including State personal income.
Looking at the Monthly Labor
Review and the précis graph on women's labor force participation takes
away the mystique of going to the library and laboring through the print
edition of the MLR rate.
Provided by the Bank of International Settlements
For the latest data on International Debt (especially in view of the crisis in Argentina)
Created by Professor Giancarlo Corsetti, Yale University