U.S. data	State & regional data	International data
Calculators, Tools, etc	Economic History	Articles, Reports, etc.

U.S. Data

• Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.doc.gov/ - Contains summarized data from the "Survey of Current Business".
• Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/blshome.html - Consumer price index, unemployment rates, hours and wage reports, and "Economy at a Glance".
• Economic Census http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/econ/www 2
• Economic & Housing Data - National Association of Home Builders http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/generic/sectionID=150
• Economic Policy Institute http://www.epinet.org - "Datazone" and "Economic Snapshots" contain charts and graphs on labor, sustainability, living wage and other economic issues.
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room (via the White House Web site) http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html - Provides current updates of the best known economic statistics produced by a number of Federal agencies. Includes graphs and charts.
• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Woodrow http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/ - Contains the Beige Book (the national economic summary) interest and exchange rate charts, the "What is a Dollar Worth" inflation calculator, data by industry, and more.
• Global Financial Data - Online access to historical financial and economic data. Access is not free but individual subscriptions are available.
• Liber8 - An economic information portal from the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Contains data and recent articles.
• STAT-USA (U.S. Dept. of Commerce). (Subscription for CSU Chico students, faculty, staff) http://www.stat-usa.gov/
  • Select State of the Nation http://www.stat-usa.gov/econtest.nsf - for the latest news on economic indicators such as the consumer price index, unemployment rates, GDP, etc.
  • Select State of the Nation Library http://www.stat-usa.gov/online.nsf for historical backfiles of economic data, plus hearings, testimony, the Beige Book, etc.

State and Regional Data

• California State University, Chico - Center for Economic Development http://www.csuchico.edu/cedp/ - Economic data for northeastern California counties.
• California Labor Market Information (California Employment Development Department) http://www.calmis.cahwnet.gov/
• Economic Census for California (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/97EC_CA.HTM
• EPI Datazone (Economic Policy Institute) http://www.epinet.org/datazone/ - State and regional labor market trends.
• RAND California http://ca.rand.org/ - California statistics, including business and economics, government finance, socioeconomic & health, demographics, etc. (Subscription for CSU Chico students, faculty, staff)
• Regional Economic Info System (University of Washington) - List of best links for regional economic information http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/reis-stateis.html
• Western Regional Economy (Bureau of Labor Statistics) http://www.bls.gov/ro9home.htm - Compiles CPI and Unemployment Rate data for the western states. Detail is provided for California and its cities, including Chico-Paradise.

International Data

• Country Watch http://www.countrywatch.com - Includes macroeconomic overviews and data on countries.
• Doing Business - From the World Bank, describes and compares the regulatory environment of economies around the world. ttp://rru.worldbank.org/doingbusiness/
• Global Financial Data - Online access to historical financial and economic data. Access is not free but individual subscriptions are available.
• p://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/Penn World Tables http://cansim.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/pwt/ - Economic data for 152 countries.
• IMF Country Page (International Monetary Fund) http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/02/index.htm - see also World Economic Outlook, Meriam Library Main Collection HC59 W64.

Calculators, Data Sets, Glossaries

• CPI Calculator (What is a Dollar Worth?) http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/ - Computes the effect of inflation on prices; covers 1913 to 1998.
• Cost of Living Comparisons (Datamasters) http://www.datamasters.com/cgi-bin/col.pl - 1999 cost-of-living comparisons for U.S. metro areas.
• Economagic.com: Economic Time Series http://www.economagic.com/links/ - A comprehensive collection of time series and other data sets useful for economic forecasting, compiled by Ted Bos of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
• iFigure.com http://ifigure.com/ - A collection of calculators for money, business, mathematics, engineering and living.
• Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms http://www.facsnet.org/tools/ref_tutor/econo_term/glossary.html
• SEC Mutual Fund Cost Calculator (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission) http://www.sec.gov/mfcc/mfcc-int.htm
• Salary Calculator (Home Fair) http://www2.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html
• Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.net/ucc/
  

Articles, Reports & Working Papers tp://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/sylloge/econlit/econlit.html

• Fed in Print (Federal Reserve Bank of S.F.) http://www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html -  A searchable index to Federal Reserve economic research (some documents are full-text.)
• Liber8 - An economic information portal from the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Contains data and recent articles.
• Online Economics Textbooks http://www.oswego.edu/%7Eeconomic/newbooks.htm - A selection of basic economics texts available in full-text on the Internet.
• Resources for Economists on the Internet http://rfe.org/ - Compiled by Bill Goffe, University of Southern Mississippi.http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/

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