When a purported data analyst says something strange, who you gonna call?<\/p>\n
General<\/p>\n
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- St. Louis Fed FRED economic database<\/a>\u00a0Thousands of time series on economic activity, in an easily downloadable form.\u00a0<\/b>Contains some key series from BEA, BLS, Census, IMF, OECD, etc.<\/li>\n
- St. Louis Fed ALFRED database<\/a>. Vintages of many series in FRED.<\/li>\n
- CBO data<\/a>\u00a0Includes Federal budget data, national economic data, and projections<\/li>\n
- IMF International Financial Statistics\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0international data at monthly, quarterly and annual frequencies.<\/li>\n
- IMF World Economic Outlook databases<\/a>\u00a0data and forecasts at annual frequency, 1980 onward; includes forecasts as of WEO editions.<\/li>\n
- World Bank World Development Indicators<\/a>\u00a0annual data, 1970 onward.<\/li>\n
- OECD Main Economic Indicators<\/a><\/li>\n
- BIS<\/a><\/li>\n
- ECB<\/a><\/li>\n
- DBnomics<\/a>\u00a0(a \u201cEuropean FRED\u201d)<\/li>\n
- ino.com<\/a>\u00a0Futures data.<\/li>\n
- Penn World Tables v.10<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- BEA Distribution national income accounts<\/a>\u00a0
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<\/li>\n- Philadelphia Fed State Coincident Indexes<\/a><\/li>\n
- IHS Markit (formerly Macroeconomic Advisers)\u00a0Monthly GDP<\/a><\/li>\n
- TradingEconomics<\/a>\u00a0many series cross-country graphable, downloadable with subscription<\/li>\n
- YCharts<\/a>\u00a0Macro and equity market data series, downloadable with subscription<\/li>\n
- MacroTrends<\/a>\u00a0many series, incl. commodity futures over long spans<\/li>\n
- World Government Bonds<\/a>\u00a0government rates, spreads, ratings, CDS<\/li>\n
- Investing.com<\/a>\u00a0many series, high frequency, many downloadable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Money, Finance<\/p>\n
Detailed US economic data<\/p>\n
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- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Dept. of Commerce<\/a>\u00a0Data on GDP and components (the national income and product accounts) as well as other macroeconomic data.<\/li>\n
- Bureau of the Census, Dept. of Commerce<\/a>\u00a0Data on the characteristics of the US population\u00a0 US firms, as well as other data.<\/li>\n
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dept. of Labor<\/a>\u00a0Data on wages, prices, productivity, and employment and unemployment rates.<\/li>\n
- Energy Information Agency, Dept. of Energy<\/a>\u00a0Data on energy (electricity, gas, petroleum) production, consumption and prices.<\/li>\n
- Economic Report of the President<\/i>, various years<\/a>. The back portion of this annual publication contains about 70 tables of government economic data.<\/li>\n
- Economic Indicators<\/a>\u00a0CEA and JEC Compilation of economic data in tabular form.<\/li>\n
- NBER Data<\/a>\u00a0Specialized economic databases created by economists associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
International finance\/open economy Macro<\/p>\n
Business cycles<\/p>\n
Historical<\/p>\n
Surveys, Forecasts<\/p>\n
Uncertainty Indices<\/p>\n
High frequency and nowcasting data<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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- Bureau of the Census, Dept. of Commerce<\/a>\u00a0Data on the characteristics of the US population\u00a0 US firms, as well as other data.<\/li>\n
- St. Louis Fed ALFRED database<\/a>. Vintages of many series in FRED.<\/li>\n