When a purported data analyst says something strange, who you gonna call?
General
- St. Louis Fed FRED economic database Thousands of time series on economic activity, in an easily downloadable form. Contains some key series from BEA, BLS, Census, IMF, OECD, etc.
- St. Louis Fed ALFRED database. Vintages of many series in FRED.
- CBO data Includes Federal budget data, national economic data, and projections
- IMF International Financial Statistics international data at monthly, quarterly and annual frequencies.
- IMF World Economic Outlook databases data and forecasts at annual frequency, 1980 onward; includes forecasts as of WEO editions.
- World Bank World Development Indicators annual data, 1970 onward.
- OECD Main Economic Indicators
- BIS
- ECB
- DBnomics (a “European FRED”)
- ino.com Futures data.
- Penn World Tables v.10.
- BEA Distribution national income accounts
- Philadelphia Fed State Coincident Indexes
- IHS Markit (formerly Macroeconomic Advisers) Monthly GDP
- TradingEconomics many series cross-country graphable, downloadable with subscription
- YCharts Macro and equity market data series, downloadable with subscription
- MacroTrends many series, incl. commodity futures over long spans
- World Government Bonds government rates, spreads, ratings, CDS
- Investing.com many series, high frequency, many downloadable
Money, Finance
- Federal Reserve Board data Monetary, financial and output data collected by the Nation’s central bank. Fed data sets compendium (the individual Fed Banks also have dataset compendia)
- Divisia money from the CFS
Detailed US economic data
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Dept. of Commerce Data on GDP and components (the national income and product accounts) as well as other macroeconomic data.
- Bureau of the Census, Dept. of Commerce Data on the characteristics of the US population US firms, as well as other data.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dept. of Labor Data on wages, prices, productivity, and employment and unemployment rates.
- Energy Information Agency, Dept. of Energy Data on energy (electricity, gas, petroleum) production, consumption and prices.
- Economic Report of the President, various years. The back portion of this annual publication contains about 70 tables of government economic data.
- Economic Indicators CEA and JEC Compilation of economic data in tabular form.
- NBER Data Specialized economic databases created by economists associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
International finance/open economy Macro
- NBER International Finance and Macro databases. Includes link to Chinn-Ito financial openness indices, and Aizenman-Chinn-Ito “Trilemma Indices”.
- Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis World Trade Monitor indices of world trade
- IMF Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves (COFER)
- Ito-McCauley database of individual central bank reserves
- Ha-Kose-Ohnsorge A Global Database of Inflation (World Bank)
- World Bank Commodity prices “pink sheet” data
- BIS Trade Weighted Exchange Rates
- Bruegel Trade Weighted Exchange Rates
- NY Fed Global Supply Chain Pressure Index
- Economist MacParity data
Business cycles
- NBER Business Cycle turning point chronology
- FRED NBER Business Cycle Dashboard
- CEPR Euro Area Business Cycle turning point chronology
- ECRI Business Cycle turning point chronology for major economies.
Historical
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database
- Measuring Worth (GDP, CPI, exchange rates key countries)
- Economic History Association databases
- NBER Macrohistory database
- Shiller Financial data
Surveys, Forecasts
- Philadelphia Fed Survey of Professional Forecasters (includes long spans of expected inflation)
- ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters
- WSJ Survey of Economists
- NY Fed Survey of Consumers
- Cleveland Fed Inflation Expectations
- Ahn-Fulton Index of Common Inflation Expectations “CIE”
- CME FedWatch Tool
Uncertainty Indices
- GeoPolitical Risk Index (Caldara and Iacovielo)
- World Uncertainty Index (Ahir, Bloom, Furceri)
- Economic Policy Uncertainty (Baker, Bloom, Davis and others)
High frequency and nowcasting data
- Lewis-Mertens-Stock Weekly Economic Index
- Baumeister-Leiva-Leon-Sims Weekly State Level Economic Conditions Index.
- Atlanta Fed GDPNow
- Euro Area Nowcast (Cascaldi-Garcia,Ferreira, Giannone, Modugno)
- EuroCoin (Banca d’Italia/CEPR)
- Cleveland Fed CPI/PCE Nowcasts
- SF Fed News Sentiment (Buckman, Shapiro, Sudhof, and Wilson)
- Daily risk and liquidity premia (Don Kim, Cait Walsh, and Min Wei)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TEccaRKJG8VJHPueIuSOdN19CM9eV54o/view?pli=1
Re: Proposed “Roast” of the Vice President of the United States
Dear President Amiridis:
We write on behalf of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the country, and the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. We have become aware of a proposed event at the University of South Carolina (“USC”) on September 18, 2024, which is billed as a “roast” of the Vice President of the United States. As an initial matter, we note that the NAACP is non-partisan and does not endorse candidates. We, however, feel compelled to write this letter because of the blatant sexist and racist nature of the event, the advertisement for it, and the potential for violence on campus because of the proposed event. USC is the flagship institution of higher learning in South Carolina and the planned event, as advertised, threatens the status and reputation of USC, while offering no articulable educational goal.
Due to the obscene nature of the advertising for this event and the scheduled speakers, we believe that such an event is inappropriate and likely violates USC’s Policy Against Discrimination, Harassment & Sexual Misconduct and possibly South Carolina Code of Laws Sections 6-15-305
(Disseminating, procuring or promoting obscenity unlawful; definitions; penalties; obscene material designated contraband) and 16-15-345 (Disseminating obscene material to person under age eighteen prohibited; penalties).
That this event was even scheduled is disgusting.
Just curious – who is this “purported data analyst” and what did s/he say?
I think Menzie may be making a general reference to journalists who are self-proclaimed data analysts. I have seen many of these. I think your boy Kevin Drum may have flown under this banner or “hung out his shingle” on that at some point or other.
Excellent!