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Everyday Economic Statistics, 7th ed

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: TOTAL OUTPUT and INCOME

Gross Domestic Product

•	BEA News Releases

•	BEA Site Index – A to Z

•	Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

•	GDP: Great Invention of the 20th Century

•	Latest GDP Press Release

•	Reliability of the GDP and GDI Estimates

Recession vs. Depression

•	Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions

•	NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee

•	The NBER's Recession Dating Procedure

The NIPAs

•	BEA Index to the NIPA Tables

Personal Income

•	News Release: Personal Income and Outlays

CHAPTER 3: PRODUCTION and GROWTH

Purchasing Managers’ Index

•	Institute for Supply Management

•	ISM’s Reports on Business

Index of Industrial Production

•	Fed in Print – A Comprehensive Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research

•	G.17 Statistical Release – Industrial Production

Capacity Utilization

•	Fed in Print – A comprehensive index to Federal Reserve economic research

•	Monthly G.17 Capacity Utilization Release

Labor Productivity

•	BLS Labor Productivity & Costs Home Page

•	BLS Multifactor Productivity Home Page

•	BLS News Release – Productivity and Costs

•	Data Extraction Tools – Productivity Statistics

•	Fed Index to “Productivity” Research

•	Labor Productivity Measures – Methodology

•	Selected MLR Productivity Articles

Leading Economic Index

•	Leading Economic Indicators – Latest

CHAPTER 4: INVESTMENT and CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

Private Nonresidential Fixed Investment

Building Permits and Housing Starts

•	Building Permits

•	New Residential Construction

•	Relationship Between Housing Permits, Starts and Completions

Business Inventories

•	Manufacturing & Trade Inventories & Sales

Inventory/Sales Ratio

•	Inventories/Sales Ratios – Latest Press Release

Durable Goods Orders

•	Advance Report on Durable Goods

CHAPTER 5: EMPLOYMENT and UNEMPLOYMENT

Total Employment

•	BLS Home Page

•	BLS News Service Subscription Page

•	Current Population Survey (CPS) home page

•	Data Extraction Tool – Civilian Employment

•	News Release – Employment Situation Summary

•	State and Metro Area Employment, Hours & Earnings

New Jobs Created

•	Economic News Release – New Jobs Created

•	New Jobs Created – Time Series Chart

Unemployment Rate

•	Data Extraction Tool – Unemployment Rate

•	How The Government Measures Unemployment

•	Local Area Unemployment Statistics

New Jobless Claims

•	Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Data - Search Tool

•	Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report

Help-Wanted Advertising

•	Help-Wanted OnLine Data – Latest

CHAPTER 6: SPENDING, PROFITS, and EXPECTATIONS

Consumer Spending

•	Real Personal Consumption Expenditures

Retail Sales

•	Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade

•	Latest Quarterly E-Commerce Report

•	Monthly & Annual Retail Trade Home Page

•	Monthly & Annual Retail Trade Survey – Frequently Asked Questions

Wholesale Sales

•	Coefficients of Variation – Wholesale Trade

•	Monthly & Annual Wholesale Trade Survey – Home Page

•	Monthly Wholesale Trade Overview

Employment Cost Index

•	Data Extraction Tool – Employment Cost Index

•	Employment Cost Index Graph from FRED

•	Latest ECI News Release from BLS

Corporate Profits

•	A - Z keyword index to the BEA tables

Consumer Expectations and Confidence

Beige Book

•	“Beige Book...Better Mirror than Crystal Ball?”

•	Beige Book – Historical Archive Search

•	Beige Book – Latest Summary

CHAPTER 7: PRICES, MONEY, and INTEREST RATES

Consumer Price Index

•	Consumer Price Index – Latest News Release

•	Consumer Price Indexes Home Page – BLS

•	CPI – Frequently Asked Questions

•	CPI Inflation Calculator

•	Databases – CPI

•	Latest Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)

Producer Price Index

•	BLS Handbook of Methods – Producer Prices

•	FRED graph of historical PPI

•	PPI – Frequently Asked Questions

•	Producer Price Index – Latest News Release

•	Producer Price Index home page

Money Supply

•	Historical Fed Funds Rate – FRED

•	Historical Money Stock – M1 and M2

•	Money Stock – Latest M1 and M2

Fed Funds Rate

•	Selected Rates – Fed Funds Current

•	Selected Rates – Fed Funds Historical

Primary Credit Rate

•	Historical Discount Rate – FRED

•	Primary Credit Rate Graph – FRED

•	The Discount Rate

Treasury Bill Rate

•	Historical T-bill rate – FRED

•	Selected Interest Rates – T-Bills Current

Prime Rate

•	Historical Prime Rate – FRED graph

•	Selected Interest Rates – Prime Rate Current

LIBOR

•	Current LIBOR rates – Wall Street Journal

•	Historical LIBOR graph from FRED

•	LIBOR – Frequently Asked Questions

CHAPTER 8: STOCK PRICES and INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Dow Jones Industrial Average

•	DJIA – 12 Mo. Performance

•	Dow Jones Indexes

•	Greatest DJIA Daily Point Gains/Losses

Standard & Poor's 500

•	S&P U.S. Indices Methodology

•	Standard & Poor's Home Page

Russell 3000 Index

•	FTSE Russell Factsheets

•	Historical Russell Index Values

•	Russell 3000 Index

Wilshire 5000

•	Wilshire 5000 Fact Sheet

•	Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index – Methodology

•	Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index Homepage

Trade Deficit

•	Foreign Trade – Historical Series

•	Top Trading Partners

•	U.S. Trade in Goods by Country

•	U.S. Trade in Goods with the World

International Value of the Dollar

•	Chart of Fed's Broad Trade Weighted Dollar Index

•	Chart of Fed's Major Currency Index

•	Fed's G.5 Monthly Foreign Exchange Rates

•	Fed's H.10 Daily Foreign Exchange Rates

Foreign Exchange

APPENDIX: CHAIN WEIGHTING

Appendix

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