Macroeconomic Policy and Statistics

Policy

Monetary Policy

Monetary Policy - Federal Reserve ­
Use the pull down menus in the left side bar under "Policy Making" to access the Federal Open Market Committee minutes and proceedings. Under "Policy Tools you will find minutes of the discount rate meetings and reserve requirements.  "Reports" contains the report to Congress and the Beige Book.

Fiscal Policy: Executive Branch

Office of Management and Budget Look at the bottom of the page under Agency Information for Circulars, OMB Testamony (usually before Congress) and Memoranda.

Statements of Administrative Policy:OMB

Council of Economic Advisers Click on Publications to access the current issue of the "Economic Report of the President and a number of recent white papers on the economy.

Fiscal Policy: Legislative Branch

Congressional Budget Office

Think Tanks

American Interprise Institute (Consertative)
Click on area of interest then follow the links to articles.

The Urban Institute (Liberal)
Check under "Research" and "Issues in Focus."

Jerome Levy Economics Institute

National Bureau of Economic Research Inc.

U.S. Economic Data

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• Economic Report of the President   GPO Access provides official versions of the current version of the Economic Report of the President and links to archived issues from 1960 - 1980 via FRASER and 1995 to the present.
  
• Economic Indicators.gov

Retail Sales
Construction Spending
Housing Starts
Manfactures' Shipments Inventories and Orders
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services (Trade Gap)

• Bureau of Economic Analysis

Gross Domestic Product
Person Income - look under GDP and Related data

• Economic Briefing Room - Census Bureau
• Census Bureau
  The major data collecting agency of the Federal Government. Using the Census Breau alphabetical listing will often lead you to relevant data.
• StatUSA
  "State of the Nation" link provides much Macroeconomic data.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics

Unemployment Data
Consumer Price Index
Producer Price Index

• Federal Reserve Board - Economic Research and Data

Table/Release H.16:
 -Prime Rate
 -Discount Rate
 -Federal Funds Rate
 -Treasury Bills Rate
 -Treasury Bonds Rate
Table/Release H. 6 Money Stock and Debt Measures:
 -M2 is in this release
Table/Release G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Table/Release G.19 Consumer Credit

• FRASER - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

FRASER provides access to historical economic statistics and data for:
 Economic Indicators
 All Bank Statistics
 Annual Statistical Digest
 Banking and Monetary Statistics
 Business Statistics (Supplement to Business Conditions Digest
 Concordance of Statistics
 Productivity and Costs Statistical Release

"Content of a publication May be viewed by issue (using the date feature), a single table may be viewed across many years (using the table listing feature). All Bank Statistics and the Concordance of Statistics are only searchable by date, due to the type of publication."

• Monthly Treasury Statement
• U.S. Budget
• Public Debt

Non-Governmental Groups

• ­The Conference Board
• Global Indicators - The conference Board
  Some reports here are free; others require a subscription.
• Survey of Consumers - University of Michigan
  This site requires you to provide name and e-mail address.
• McGraw-Hill (F.W. Dodge)
  This is a commercial site. Most of the data here must be purchased. Denison does not have a subscription to this site.
• Machine Tool Market
• Freddie Mac Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey