1. Recent Macroeconomic Performance
2. U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions
3. Problems in Measuring Unemployment
4. Controversy over Labour Statistics
5. How the Government Measures Unemployment

Bureau of Labor Statistics - Most Requested Series
The most requested labor market statistics (including statistics for local and regional areas).

Comparative Civilian Labor Force Statistics: Ten Countries, 1959-1998.
On this page, the BLS provides comparative labor market statistics for 10 major developed economies.

Consumer Price Index Conversion Tables (provided by Robert Sahr)
A listing of conversion factors needed to convert prices from any year between 1800 and 1999 into 1998 dollars.

Consumer Price Index Home Page
This page, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, provides information about the construction of the CPI.

Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page
This site, provided by Ted Bos, provides online data and graphs for an extensive collection of economic data series.

Economic Report of the President 2000
The Economic Report of the President contains a good discussion of recent U.S. macroeconomic performance.

Employment and Unemployment Statistics: Most Recent Release
This site, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, contains the most recent statistical information on U.S. labor market conditions.

The Inflation Calculator (by S. Morgan Friedman)
This online inflation calculator converts nominal prices from any year between 1800 and 1999 into a price measured in terms of any base year (in this same time period). All conversions are based on CPI data.

Inflation Calculator (NASA)
This Java Script based calculator uses the implicit GDP deflator to perform conversions from nominal prices to real prices (for any year between 1940 and the present -- in fact estimated values of the implicit GDP deflator can be used to convert prices up until the year 2004). The use of this site, however, requires a JavaScript enabled browser.

Macroeconomic data sites
An extensive collection of links to sources of current and historical macroeconomic data.

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Other economic resources
This page contains a set of links to economic resources that may be of interest to introductory economics students.