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to theshortrun.com economic data section.
Here, you will find the most important economic data and indicators categorized by the five major components of the economy: National Income and Product Accounts, International Economy, Price Indices/Inflation, Financial Markets, and Labor Markets.   For each data series, there are statistics for the past two months/quarters, an explanation of what the indicator means, a chart showing long term trends, details of current behavior of the data, and a link to the entire historical data series on an excel file.

Also, check out the new Short Run Interactive Chartroom.  Using Java technology, the Short Run brings you an easy-to-use interface to help you browse through graphs of different sectors of the economy.  You can choose between 2-, 5-, and 10-year charts for each series listed below.  Open a new Interactive Chartroom session now!



National Income and Product Accounts

Real Gross Domestic Product
Real Personal Consumption Expenditures
Real Gross Private Domestic Investment
Real Government Consumption Expenditures
Real Net Exports


Labor Indicators

Productivity
Unit Labor Costs
Unemployment
Industrial Production
Capacity Utilization


Price Indices/Inflation

CPI for all urban consumers
CPI ex. food and energy
PCE chain-type price index
PPI finished goods
PPI finished goods ex. food and energy
PPI intermediate goods
PPI crude goods


Financial Markets

Money Supply
St. Louis Monetary Base
Corporate BBB securities
Fed Fund Futures


International Economy (under construction)

Current Account
Trade Balance



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