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US Macro and Regional Data

Regional data, real-time data, census forecasts, and more.


"Primary" macro and regional sites that generate data

  • - National Income and Produce Accounts (GDP, etc.), international and regional data
  • - more than 250,000 long series; unemp. and price series most prominent
  • - Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators
  • - current federal spending and revenue; macro forecasts
  • - summary and very detailed federal budget info
  • - well-known survey of consumer attitudes
  • - historical exchange rates
  • - US GDP estimates starting in 1789

"Secondary" macro sites (data from primary sources packaged together, sometimes with analysis)

  • - advice to the President
  • - President's policies and a fair number of time series
  • - old reports
  • - excellent source of macro time series (some 400,000 series available)
  • - very widely used site
  • - emphasis on rapid delivery, quality checks, and very wide coverage (fee-based)
  • - compare variety of data across countries
  • - variety of data types and sources
  • - pre-WW II data from the United States, United Kingdom., France, and Germany
  • - search more than 8,000,000 data series
  • - rapid reporting of macro variables

"Secondary" regional data 

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Real-time and archived data

  • - real-time data
  • - archived data

Consensus forecasts

  • - real-time data
  • - free Philadelphia Fed Survey
  • - US and international consensus forecasts

Economic calendars and releases

  • - lists release dates and consensus forecasts
  • - links to current releases & email on them