Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED): Historical values for the U.S. of the macroeconomic variables discussed in this course. For other data, click here.
Economic Report of the President
(Annual)
Statistical Abstract of the United
States (Annual)
Chapter 23 (All chapter references are to the course textbook.)
Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) and Components (MS Excel file
with Charts)
National
Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) Tables
A Guide to the
NIPA's (PDF)
Another
Guide to the NIPA's
An article about how the U.S. Commerce Department actually measures GDP. This article contains links to the Commerce Department's valuable and exhaustive store of macroeconomic data on the U.S. economy from as far back as 1929.
Chapter 24
Consumer Price Indexes (CPI)
Producer Price Indexes (PPI)
Consumer
Price Index For All Urban Consumers (Monthly Data)
BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 17. Consumer
Price Indexes
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
Labor Statistics
Adjusting for Inflation
Chapter 25
Productivity Home Page, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.
Chapter 26
Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, Federal Reserve.
Chapter 28
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 1. Labor
force data derived from the Current Population Survey (Frequently
Asked Questions)
Employment
Comparisons by Race and Sex
Employment
status of the civilian noninstitutional population, 1939 to date
Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population 16 years and over by sex, 1970 to date
U.S. Historical Income Data, Census data
U.S. Minimum Wage
Chapter 29
Monetary
Aggregates (M1,
M2)
Monetary
Trends
Discount
Rate
Chapter 30
Wikipedia
biz/ed
EconEdLink
Inflation Calculators
-- NASA
Chapter 31
U.S. Trade & International Transactions
Real
Exports of Goods & Services
Real
Imports of Goods & Services
Plainedge
PowerPoint Presentation