This is news worth sharing for all those policy wonks out there. The St. Louis Fed has added over 10,000 new data series from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) National Income and Product Account tables to its excellent FRED database and research tool. FRED now counts over 70,000 series of data.Fictional Reserve Banking
Nod to the St. Louis Fed: NIPA tables now on FRED
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As I posted on FB a while back, it's now possible to see up-to-date sectoral balances on FRED
ReplyDeletehttps://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?graph_id=116058&category_id=0#
Forgot to explain the color coding on the sectoral balances chart. Easy to remember the "government's RED ink is our BLACK ink."
ReplyDeleteSo RED = govt. deficit
BLACK = private accounts
BLUE = foreign account
Thanks for that, Dan. I'd been wondering for a while which series on FRED to use for that.
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