Economic Indicators

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• Building Permits: These data provide the number of housing units and the valuation of construction for new single-family and multi-family housing units.
• Consumer Price Index (CPI): The CPI is the most widely used measure of inflation.
• Brave-Butters-Kelley Indexes (BBKI): These indexes provide a timely and accurate depiction of the state of economic activity for the U.S. and can be utilized to gauge the future trajectory of economic activity. These data exhibit predictive power for business cycle fluctuations and summarize the information in an unbalanced panel of 490 macroeconomic time series extending back to 1960.