Economics on the World Wide Web
Where can you find good statistical data?
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The Federal Reserve Bank: the Board
of Governors, the Federal
Reserve Beige Book, and information on Federal
Reserve Monetary Policy. The twelve banks are the St.
Louis Fed, the Cleveland Fed,
the New York Fed, the San
Francisco Fed (our regional Fed), the Chicago
Fed, the Dallas Fed, the Philadelphia
Fed, the Boston Fed, the Kansas
City Fed, the Atlanta Fed,
the Richmond Fed, and the Minneapolis
Fed. For data, first look in FRED
- Federal Reserve Economic Data
- from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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You can get good data from many sources in the Federal
Government, including the Labor Department's Bureau
of Labor Statistics, the Commerce Department's Bureau
of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau,
the Agriculture Department's Economic
Research Service, and the Federal
Trade Commission.
Other good links include:
Lists of academic economics departments, faculties, and centers:
The mothership even has a website:
EC/ODE
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