Harvard economics Professor Jason Furman has created a new website that tracks current economic data called Econvitals

Furman has also been a chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Click here to go to Econvitals.

This is a great site if you want to see any current stats that are often mentioned in the media: GDP, inflation, unemployment, value of the dollar, interest rates, etc. The data is extensive and has lots of great tables and charts.

Here is what Furman says his site is about:

"I started this quickly, as part experiment and part useful resource for myself — a single place to keep all the data I like to look at when tracking the macroeconomy. Then I expanded it for a few friends, and now I’ve decided to take it public. It reflects my favorite ways of looking at and monitoring the economy, plus what I hope will become a growing set of broader perspectives that go beyond standard macro tracking. Some of it is idiosyncratic. It’s still very new, and I expect it to evolve, grow, and improve over time. It will always be free.

For most people, the main dashboard should be enough — it has all the major measures you’d want. But you can also go into much more detail on everything from GDP to financial conditions. For now it’s almost entirely focused on the U.S. economy, though there’s now a start on international coverage, which I hope to expand over time. There is also a set of tools on specific topics, like tracking speeches by FOMC members and forecasting the fiscal outlook.

A number of the measures here are my own constructions rather than an agency’s figure — the Ecumenical underlying-inflation gauge, Underlying Unit Labor Costs, the GDP and PCE estimates and more. Each is marked “Econvitals original” and explained in plain English on the Methods page. How the site handles email addresses and visits, and its terms of use, are on the terms and privacy page.

One caveat: this is very much a work in progress. I did all of the initial work myself and now Harvard College students Sriyutha Morishetty and Amar Besic are helping out. There are about 500,000 lines of code in the full system and I haven’t looked at a single one of them — it was all vibe coded. So I’d love your feedback, corrections, suggestions, and requests. Nothing is too small or too large, and I’m grateful for all of it — just email feedback@econvitals.org.

I hope you find it helpful and interesting.

Jason Furman"