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Everyday Economic Statistics, 6th ed

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 2: TOTAL OUTPUT, PRODUCTION, AND GROWTH

Gross Domestic Product

•	BEA Current News Releases

•	BEA Interactive Access to the NIPA Tables

•	Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)

•	Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions

•	Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity

•	GDP: Great Invention of the 20th Century

•	Latest GDP Press Release

•	Reliability of GDP and Related NIPA Estimates

•	The NBER's Recession Dating Procedure

The Index of Industrial Production

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

•	G.17 Statistical Release – Industrial Production

•	Industrial Production – Annual Revision

Index of Leading Indicators

•	Leading Economic Indicators – Latest

Purchasing Managers' Index

•	Institute for Supply Management

•	ISM’s Reports on Business

Productivity

•	BLS Multifactor Productivity Home Page

•	BLS News Release – Productivity and Costs

•	BLS Productivity and Costs Home Page

•	Data Extraction Tools – Productivity Statistics

•	Fed Index to “Productivity” Research

•	Labor Productivity Measures – Methodology

•	Selected MLR Productivity Articles

Capacity Utilization

•	Fed in Print: An Index to Economic Research

•	Monthly G.17 Capacity Utilization Release

CHAPTER 3: INVESTMENT AND CAPITAL EXPENDITURES

Gross Private Domestic Investment

Building Permits and Housing Starts

•	New Residential Construction

•	Relationship Between Housing Permits, Starts and Completions

Business Inventories

Business Inventories/Sales Ratio

•	Inventories/Sales Ratios – Latest Press

Durable Goods Orders

•	New Durable Goods Orders – Latest

CHAPTER 4: EMPLOYMENT, EARNINGS, AND PROFITS

The Unemployment Rate

•	BLS News Service Subscription Page

•	Current Population Survey (CPS) home page

•	Data Extraction Tool – Unemployment Rate

•	Employment Situation Summary

•	How The Government Measures Unemployment

•	State and Metro Area Employment, Hours & Earnings

New Jobless Claims

•	Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Data

•	Weekly Unemployment Insurance Claims

Help-Wanted Advertising

•	Help-Wanted OnLine Data – Latest

New Jobs Created

Personal and Disposable Personal Income

•	News Release: Personal Income and Outlays

Corporate Profits

•	Keyword Index to NIPA Tables – Corporate Profits

CHAPTER 5: SPENDING, SALES, AND EXPECTATIONS

Consumer Spending

•	A - Z keyword index to the BEA tables

Retail Sales

•	Advance Monthly Sales for Retail Trade and Food Services

•	Latest Quarterly E-Commerce Report

•	Monthly & Annual Retail Trade Home Page

•	Monthly & Annual Retail Trade Survey – Historical Data

Wholesale Sales

•	Coefficients of Variation – Wholesale Trade

•	Monthly & Annual Wholesale Trade Survey – Home Page

•	Monthly Wholesale Trade Overview

Employment Cost Index

•	Data Extraction – Employment Cost Index

•	Latest ECI News Release from BLS

•	National Compensation Survey (NCS) Home

Consumer Expectations and Confidence

The Beige Book

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

•	Beige Book – Historical Archive Search

•	Beige Book – Latest Summary

CHAPTER 6: PRICES, MONEY, AND INTEREST RATES

Consumer Price Index

•	Consumer Price Index – Latest News Release

•	Consumer Price Indexes Home Page – BLS

•	CPI – Frequently Asked Questions

•	Data Extraction Tool – CPI

•	Latest Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA)

Producer Price Index

•	BLS Handbook of Methods – Producer Prices

•	Data Extraction Tool – Historical PPI

•	PPI – Frequently Asked Questions

•	Producer Price Index – Latest News Release

•	Producer Price Indexes – Home Page

Money Supply

•	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

Discount Rate

•	Selected Rates – Discount Rate Current

•	Selected Rates – Discount Rate Historical

Treasury Bill Rate

•	Selected Interest Rates – T-Bills Current

•	Selected Interest Rates – T-Bills Historical

Prime Rate

•	Selected Interest Rates – Prime Rate Current

•	Selected Rates – Prime Rate Historical

CHAPTER 7: FINANCIAL MARKETS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE

The Dow Jones Industrial Average

•	Dow Jones Industrial Average History

•	Greatest DJIA Daily Point Gains/Losses

•	Major Market Indexes – DJIA

Standard & Poor's 500

The Trade Deficit

•	Foreign Transactions in the NIPA – BEA

•	U.S. International Trade Highlights

•	U.S. International Trade Highlights – FT900

International Value of the Dollar

•	Foreign Exchange Rates – Daily

•	Foreign Exchange Rates – Monthly

•	Summary Measures – FOREX Value of Dollar

Foreign Exchange

•	Daily FOREX – Fed’s Broad Country Index

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