Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States

Note: In 2019 the Macro and Markets Dashboard was replaced with the US Chartbook.

Latest Dashboard:

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – January 14, 2017 (opens PDF)

Recent Dashboards:

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – January 14, 2017 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – December 17, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – December 11, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – December 3, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – November 28, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – November 19, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – November 11, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – November 6, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – October 29, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – October 22, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – October 15, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – October 8, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – October 1, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – September 25, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – September 17, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – September 11, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – September 3, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – August 27, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – August 13, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – August 6, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – July 30, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – July 23, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – July 16, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – July 9, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – July 4, 2016 (opens PDF)

Macro and Markets Dashboard: United States – June 26, 2016 (opens PDF)

About

What is it?

The Macro and Markets Dashboard for the United States is a collection of nearly 100 indicators and measures of the U.S. economy.  The dashboard is meant to be a cross-sectoral tool for analyzing macroeconomic and financial conditions and recent (past decade) trends, and a well-organized summary of thousands of datapoints.

Latest dashboard: MacroDash.pdf

Contents include:

1. Macroeconomic Indicators: Overview
2. Labor Market Indicators: Business Sector
3. Equity Market Indicators: Households
4. Depository Corporations
5. Labor Markets
6. Equity Markets
7. Interest Rate and Bond Markets
8. Government and Policy
9. Prices
10. Trade and External Sector Indicators
11. Capital Flows
12. Exchange Rate Table

How do I read it?

Each line plot shows the performance of an indicator from January 1, 2006 to present. The name of the indicator follows a small blue box above the plot. The latest value and its reference period is listed in the bottom left corner of the plot area. Below each chart is a brief listing of the source/method, but most importantly, a link to the actual data.

How is it made?

I hope to add the code to this site at some point, but the short answer is: data is collected and cleaned with Stata and read by a .tex file. Integral to the process is FRED, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data, which contains hundreds of thousands of time series. Quandl is also critical, and is used as the source of much of the data. PGFplots is the LaTeX package that creates the plots.