FRB of St. Louis: FRED
The major resource of the St. Louis Fed is FRED (for "Federal
Reserve Economic Data"), their macro database. In all, more than
3,000 different macro, monetary, and financial time series are
available from a variety of different sources. Information in this
source is current, relatively extensive, easily available, and easily
downloaded.
Data comes in the following categories:
Banking
Business/Fiscal
Consumer Price Indexes (CPI)
Employment & Population
Exchange Rates
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Components
Interest Rates
Monetary Aggregates
Producer Price Indexes (PPI)
Reserves and Monetary Base
U.S. Trade & International Transactions
U.S. Financial Data
FRB-St. Louis District Dat
Each category consists of a large number of series. Each series is
available in an ASCII file, spreadsheet file, and plot (with a
choice of time spans). Each group or the entire dataset can also be
downloaded. Most series are available for long or very long periods,
and the most recent values are quite current. You can also arrange for
new data to be e-mailed to you, and you can store lists of their data
on your account there.
The parent site also offers information on the St. Louis Fed and the
Federal Reserve System, banking information, community affairs,
economic research, and educational opportunities. Articles, data,
and programs from the St. Louis Fed "Review" since 1993 are available
here.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
