Real Science: Economics by the Numbers

This post was a victim of the 3/11 sift-pocalypse, so here is a repost:

It was a bureaucratic pain-in-the-ass, but I have personally gathered the following economic data:

Federal Interest Rate (1954-2009) http://www.federalreserve.gov
Unemployment Rate (1948-2009) http://www.bls.gov
Consumer Price Index (1913-2009) http://www.bls.gov
Gross Domestic Product (1947-2009) http://www.bea.gov
National Debt (1950-2009) http://www.treasurydirect.gov
Federal Budget Receipts (1901-2009) http://www.gpoaccess.gov
Federal Budget Outlays (1901-2009) http://www.gpoaccess.gov
Federal Budget Balance (1901-2009) http://www.gpoaccess.gov
National Imports (1960-2006) http://www.census.gov
National Exports (1960-2006) http://www.census.gov
National Trade Balance (1960-2006) http://www.census.gov
Median Income (1947-2006) http://www.census.gov
Mean Income (1947-2006) http://www.census.gov

On either a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis, and used it to personally calculate:

Rate of Inflation
Real Gross Domestic Product
Real National Debt
Real Gross Domestic Profit (GDP - National Debt)
Real Federal Budget Receipts
Real Federal Budget Outlays
Real Federal Budget Surplus/Deficit
Real National Imports
Real National Exports
Real National Trade Balance
Real Median Income
Real Mean Income

Where 'real' designates that the value has been adjusted for inflation. I've added all these values to a giant table, listed by month and year as far back as 1901, and used JMP to generate overlay plots of the various indicators versus each other. I have not seen a lot of this data over such a wide date range, and some of it never before, so let me just present it here for everyone to view and interpret...

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