From Economic Synopses: “Soft” data suggest a brighter outlook than “hard” data.
These 2,402 annual series from the Federal Housing Finance Agency include county-level house price indexes. The house price index is a broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices.
The latest issue covers 2009’s Recovery & Reinvestment Act, household debt, China, and Korea.
FRED has reestablished an update of Moody’s Aaa and Baa corporate bond yields. These series are constructed by Moody’s from bonds with maturities of 20 years and above.
A webpage devoted to the latest research, data, and commentary on the job market.
From Economic Synopses: Counties with high unemployment also have high rates of disability.
These 3,143 county-level series measure the percentage of a racial group’s population in a county who would have to move Census tracts for each tract in that county to have the same percentage of that group as the whole county. Jahn, Schmid and Schra originally developed this process of measuring racial equalization in 1947. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey provides the composite county- and tract-level data.
Page One Economics: Economic growth comes from “better recipes, not more cooking.”
Economic Synopses: China’s fighting speculative pressure to devalue the yuan.
These 3,139 county-level series come from the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare. The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare calculates the preventable hospital admissions rate by dividing the number of discharges of ambulatory care sensitive conditions per 1,000 medicare enrollees.
