AS THE ECONOMY TURNS
AS THE ECONOMY TURNS is an ongoing weekly diary of links to and comments about publicly available information concerning our economy. You should be able to click on the items printed in RED to access the latest official report on a statistic. By changing to a weekly format we will often cover more than one statistic in each commentary. If you are reading this as an email, links to most of the important statistical reports are available at my website at AS THE ECONOMY TURNS To view any official report, simply click on its name.
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There are at least two important points to note with these stories. First, many of the statistics in the economy are closely interwoven and one cannot really fully understand the texture of any one thread without considering the whole cloth. Secondly, the numbers refer to statistics about the past, which is finished, not the future, which is what we need to learn about to make our business decisions. For that, we need to learn statistics, which uses the data from the past to make forecasts of the future.
GDP Report (End of month release date)
Unemployment/Employment Report (First Friday release date)
Consumer Prices (Mid-Month release date)
Producer Prices (Mid-Month release date)
Note on Employment Situation Report Questions (June 12, 2003 entry)
Labor Productivity (quarterly release dates)
Money Supply Data from the Federal Reserve (Updated Weekly)
The following are cranky links to Census Bureau Reports which may be of some interest. Unfortunately, the simple links do not always work. Instead, you may be sent to a Census bureau index page. To short-cut the baloney, just copy the address shown below after the link and paste it for your browser to use. that seems to work fine. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Poverty and Insurance Coverage Report from Census Bureau August 2005 Press Release
The address is:
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/Releases/archives/income_wealth/002484.html
Inventory Report/Census Bureau
The address is:
http://www.census.gov/mtis/www/current.html
Click here for links to other data sources.
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