Economic data sources directory
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| Resource | Category | What it provides | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
10-Year Treasury Minus 2-Year Treasury | Market implied macro | Provides a widely followed alternative term spread that can differ from the model benchmark. | fred.stlouisfed.org |
10-Year Treasury Minus 3-Month Treasury | Market implied macro | Provides the term spread used by the New York Fed's recession-probability model. | fred.stlouisfed.org |
AAR Rail Traffic Data Center | Goods flow logistics | Publishes weekly U.S. rail carload and intermodal counts by commodity. | aar.org |
ABIDES-Economist | Machine learning and economic simulation | Describes an agent-based simulator for economic systems with learning agents, useful for controlled experiments but separate from observed-market evidence or trading validation. | arxiv.org |
ADP National Employment Report | Labor hiring | Provides a monthly estimate of private-sector employment and pay based on ADP payroll data. | adpemploymentreport.com |
AI Research Writing for Economics | Learning methods | Organizes Chinese-language prompts for economics research and writing and identifies an upstream prompt collection; use it as workflow inspiration because no recognized license was present at the August 30, 2026 review. | github.com |
American Community Survey API | Regional economic modeling data | Provides annual demographic, economic, and housing estimates for structural context, with sampling uncertainty, margins of error, population thresholds, and changing vintages to preserve. | census.gov |
Apartment List National Rent Data | Housing shelter | Publishes monthly asking-rent estimates with metro-level cuts and downloadable time series. | apartmentlist.com |
Asianometry | Finance economics systems channels | Produces researched video essays on Asian technology, business history, semiconductor manufacturing, supply chains, and economics. | youtube.com |
Aswath Damodaran on Valuation | Finance economics systems channels | Publishes NYU Stern lectures and practical materials on corporate finance, valuation, accounting, and investment philosophy. | youtube.com |
Atlanta Fed GDPNow | Composite trackers | Publishes a model-based running estimate of current-quarter real GDP growth; it is not an official Atlanta Fed forecast, receives no subjective adjustment, and can retain substantial error near the advance GDP release. | atlantafed.org |
Awesome Economic World Models | Machine learning and economic simulation | Organizes a broad research taxonomy for agent-based and adaptive economic simulations, which are not observed economic data, validated counterfactuals, or forecasts by default. | github.com |
Awesome Machine Learning in Economics and Finance | Machine learning and economic simulation | Offers a small mixed-language discovery list of researchers, papers, courses, frameworks, and examples, but it is not a reviewed source authority and each linked item requires independent verification. | github.com |
Baltic Exchange Indices | Trade shipping rates | Provides dry-bulk and other freight-market benchmarks, including the Baltic Dry Index. | balticexchange.com |
BEA Data API | Portals | Provides registered, API-key access to a subset of published GDP, income, industry, regional, trade, and investment statistics plus metadata; terms acceptance is required. | apps.bea.gov |
BEA Household Production | Unpaid work civic life | Publishes periodically updated annual estimates of unpaid household work in Excel with methods; time-use inputs and wage-based valuations make these constructed estimates rather than independent observations of social welfare. | bea.gov |
BEA Regional Economic Accounts | Regional economic modeling data | Publishes state GDP and personal income with industry and component detail; honest historical forecasts require archived releases rather than current revised values alone. | bea.gov |
Ben Felix | Finance economics systems channels | Connects investing and personal-finance questions to academic research as PWL Capital's chief investment officer. | youtube.com |
Big Mac Index | Prices inflation | Compares burger prices as an informal purchasing-power-parity and currency-valuation measure. | economist.com |
Big Mac Index Data | Prices inflation | Publishes the Economist's underlying Big Mac Index dataset and methodology notes. | github.com |
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics | Regional economic modeling data | Provides official monthly state labor-force, employment, unemployment, and unemployment-rate estimates that are model-based and annually re-estimated with revised inputs and population controls. | bls.gov |
BLS Public Data API | Portals | Provides programmatic access to published U.S. labor-market and price data with documented query limits, citation requirements, and terms for secondary use. | bls.gov |
BLS State and Area Employment | Regional economic modeling data | Provides monthly state payroll employment, hours, and earnings by industry, with monthly and benchmark revisions that prevent treating the current history as the original release. | bls.gov |
BLS State JOLTS | Regional economic modeling data | Publishes state job openings, hires, quits, and separations as model-assisted estimates whose benchmarked history incorporates JOLTS, QCEW, and regional information. | bls.gov |
A curated directory, not a live data feed. Source access, licensing and methodology vary by publisher. Catalog inclusion does not confirm current availability. Source dataset · Catalog: Jovani Pink · MIT; linked sources have separate terms. · Local preview.
