Revised 09/2009

AmosWEB:  GLOSSarama Glossary of Economic Terms
This website has a searchable database of 1800 economic terms and concepts.

Annual Capital Expenditure

Beige Book
Economic summaries of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts.

Big Charts
This site, maintained by CBS MarketWatch, provides access to a variety of charts based on stock market index and economic data.

Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
Provides links to a variety of trade data, regional, national, and international.

Bureau of Labor Statistics 
Obtain an abundance of U.S. labor statistics from this web page.  Retrieve data such as employment, mass layoffs, CPI, wages, consumer expenditures, compensation, safety, and health.

Bureau of Labor Statistics:  Compensation and Working Conditions Online 
This site provides a variety of miscellaneous data on compensation and working conditions in the United States.

Bureau of Labor Statistics:  Current Employment Statistics 
This site contains the results of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly survey of over 160,000 non-farm businesses.  It provides detailed industry data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers on non-farm payrolls.

Bureau of Labor Statistics:  National Compensation Survey 
This site provides data on occupational wages for localities, broad geographic regions, and the nation.

Center for Latin American Economics
Proclaimed a "clearinghouse for information about the region" by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, the organization that maintains this link, this site offers abstracts and research papers on Latin American economies.   Individual country reports are also available.

Congressional Budget Office
Provides users with economic statistics such as monthly budget review, federal debt, budget projections, economic projections, and more.

Consumer Price Indexes
The famous Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the United States Department of Labor.

Cost of Living Calculator
The American Institute for Economic Research provides this tool for calculating historical differences in cost of living based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index.

County Business Patterns
County Business Patterns is an annual series published by the U.S. Census Bureau that provides subnational economic data by industry.

County Business Patterns, 1977 - 1993
Provides access to historical County Business Patterns publications.

Dismal Scientist
This web site contains summary and analysis of worldwide economic indicators like GDP, CPI, personal income, and employment.

Economagic.com: Economic Time Series
This site contains over 100,000 time series data files that can generally be transferred into Excel files.  The data is predominantly U.S. but contains links to international sites.

Economic Indicators.gov
This site, maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration of U.S. Department of Commerce, provides access to daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Economic Policy Institute Datazone
Provides current quarterly wage data and employment trends.

Employment Hours and Earnings

Fed in Print
This site, maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, provides a comprehensive index to Federal Reserve economic research.

Federal Reserve Banks
Provides links to the 12 U.S. Federal Reserve Banks, plus a wide variety of economic information and publications.

Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Board Home Page with links to statistics, working papers, surveys, press releases, monetary policy, banking system, consumer information, publications, and articles. It includes Economic Report of the President.

FEDStats 
More than 70 Federal Agencies contribute to the statistics available on the United States from this website.

Foreign Exchange Rates (monthly)
Links to the Federal Reserve's monthly exchange rate data.

Foreign Exchange Rates (weekly)
Links to the Federal Reserve's weekly exchange rate data.

General Conversion Factors Information
Provides Information on GDP, population and energy conversion factors.   Also contains international GDP data, forecasts, and analysis.

GPO Access
This site provides access to monthly Economic Indicators from 1998 onward.  Data is available for download in text-only and PDF formats.

Inflation Calculator
Handy tool which calculates the historical rate of inflation based on the Consumer Price Index.

International Gross Domestic Product and Population Information
Provides Information on GDP, population and energy conversion factors.   Also contains international GDP data, forecasts, and analysis.

International Monetary Fund
Obtain the IMF's latest news events, fund rates, and country information.

International Monetary Fund - World Economic Outlook Reports
Obtain the IMF's latest reports on the world economic situation.

Monthly Interest Rate Survey
Access the Federal Housing Finance Board's monthly survey of mortgage interest rates.

National Bureau of Economic Research
Dedicated to disseminating unbiased economic research among public policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community, this site contains working papers, reports, trade, and time series data on the economy and its growth.

Online Glossary of Research Economics
This site provides the definitions of over 1200 terms commonly used in the literature of research economics.

Regional Economic Information System (REIS)
REIS provides economic data on national, regional, state, county, or metropolitan levels.  Statistics cover personal income and earning variables, full- and part-time employment variables, transfer payments variables, and farm income and expenses variables since 1969.

Reserve Bank of Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia maintains a variety of national statistics which are accessible alphabetically, by frequency of publication, and as bulletin statistics tables.

Reserve Bank of New Zealand
This website is the prime vehicle for the release of all new and revised data published by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.  The statistics tables are available in a short-run html format and the same data, in a long-run format, is also available for download using MS Excel.

Statistical Resources on the Web:  Foreign and International Economics
This site, maintained by the University of Michigan, provides links to a variety of statistical information on foreign and international economics.

Survey of Consumers - University of Michigan
This site provides access to recent and historical surveys of consumer sentiment.

U.S. Census Bureau:  Annual Capital Expenditures Survey
This site provides data on capital investment in new and used structures and equipment by non-farm businesses.

U.S. Census Bureau:  Census Bureau of Economic Programs
Obtain from the U.S. Census Bureau information on every sector and subsection of the U.S. economy as well as county business patterns, business ownership, expenditure surveys, foreign trade, transportation, communications, wholesale trade and more.
Additionally, links to international statistical agencies are available.

U.S. Census Bureau:  E-Stats
This site provides the latest e-commerce statistics and forecasts.

Virtual International Business & Economic Sources
Maintained by UNC, this site has over 2,800 links to international business and economic information.

Wachovia Country Reports 
This site, maintained by Wachovia Bank, provides access to in-depth economic reports on selected countries.

WebEc
A comprehensive list of web links on all topics of economics.  This includes international economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, demographics, law, health, welfare, technological change, education, and labor.

World Bank Documents and Reports
This site provides access to over 14,000 World Bank documents covering a variety of economic topics.

World Development Indicators
The World Bank provides tables containing key economic indicators, which trace the trends in social and economic development over the last three decades for various countries. Additionally, links to a variety of statistical data on developing countries are available.

World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database September 2000
This site provides the most frequently requested information from the WEO database consistent with the data published in the World Economic Outlook.