Recession Numbers

We’re all hearing/reading news about the now official recession, but where are the analysts getting their numbers?  Here are links to some of the resources being quoted in the news.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20081201a.htm

Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke’s speech

http://www.economicindicators.gov/  Government portal for economic indicators.  One-stop shop.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/default.htm Federal Reserve Economic Research and Data

http://www.ism.ws/ISMReport/MfgROB.cfm   - November 2008 Manufacturing ISM Report on Business

(Institute for Supply Management)

http://www.nber.org/    National Bureau of Economic Research

http://wwwdev.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html  Business Cycle Expansion and Contractions

And now a sundry of government statistical resources:

http://www.bls.gov/   U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm  unemployment

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm  Gross Domestic Product news release

http://www.bea.gov/national/#gdp   GDP – click on ‘current-dollar and “real” GDP” link for an excel file

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/default.htm  Industrial Production

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/incomestats.html  income

http://www.bls.gov/cex/  consumer expenditure survey

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