Economic Indicators Assignment

Find the values of annual U.S. GDP, unemployment rate, inflation rate, government budget deficit and government debt in 2005 and 2015. Report the statistics for the two years in a table, make sure that your statistics are yearly statistics. Then, you also need to have a written part comparing the performance of the economy in 2005 and 2015.

You can use the web sites below to find the above statistics. You need to type the results of your research in a table, and then write a paragraph under the table comparing and analyzing the statistics. Explain how the economy had been doing in 2005 and 2015 and how it had changed from 2005 to 2015. Do not submit just the print out papers or charts from different web-sites. The assignment must be submitted to Live Text. Don't email your answers to the instructor, emailing will not be accepted or graded.

For the above information you might look at the following web sites, but you could research on your own if the following web sites do not provide you with the requested information:

www.bls.gov
http://www.bea.gov/
www.cbo.gov
www.frbsf.org
www.heritage.org
www.pwt.econ
www.worldbank.org
www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget
www.access.gpo.gov.su_docs/budgetguide.html
www.atf.treas.gov
www.census.gov/ftp/pub
www.un.org/depts/unsd/social/inc-eco.htm
www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn0898nip3/table1.htm
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook
www.iiss.org
www.bea.doc.gov