National Data

So after posting the market data blog a few days ago I have been looking up more information that I thought some people might find just as interesting. It seems like it is rather hard to find all the big numbers for our nation on one site, so as a result you have to go to a few pages.

To find information on GDP, unemployment, inflation, and a few other economic indicators it turns out WSJ.com comes through again. In fact a link on the same page as the market data one I posted earlier will take you straight to the numbers. For conveinance sake, I will post a link to this as well on the right hand side of the blog for future use.

It turns out the national debt and budget are much are harder to find on one website and you have to do a fair amount of digging around. If you look under the U.S. Treasury website where they are supposed to post it, you will find the national debt under a link entitled MSPD, or monthly statements of public debt. You will then learn the national debt is currently at 9.1 trillion dollars and probably decide you do not really want to look that number up again. If you are so inclined, however, you can go here and choose which month to look over.

I would also like to use this post to point out for those readers who are unaware that The New York Times online paper is now totally free. There are no member only areas anymore and it is a very fast and easy way to get the news without finding a real paper.