The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED) Add-In is free software that will significantly reduce the amount of time spent collecting and organizing macroeconomic data. The FRED add-in provides free access to over 210,000 data series from various sources (e.g., BEA, BLS, Census, and OECD) directly through Microsoft Excel.
Get it here
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred-addin/
Are you looking for GDP, CPI, or microeconomic data from the US FED? Stats Canada?
Some interesting visualizations and interpretations of this type of data.
How much you make vs. how much it really feels like per US city with the supporting data released April 2014.
Canadian Cities Where An Average Income Will No Longer Buy You a House
Numbeo, Cost of Living In Canada
It will cost you about 6% more to eat at McDonalds in Barrie vs. Toronto.
It costs 90% more to buy a bag of potatoes in Oshawa than Toronto.
There must be a potato famine in Oshawa... or people there really like french fries.
Monday, May 26, 2014
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