George Schils Business Blog - BZ Bread

Here are some links to useful sources of real time financial data.

• BBC World News. From here you can open a market watch ticker and watch "the numbers" in real time.
• The Wall Street Journal is one of the better sources of market data. Much data is contained in this site and at the referenced links.
  • Interest rate data, along with outstanding charting and graphics, is found here.

My pop Business and Finance web pages contain some additional links and related discussion.

Government home data is given here. Data here can be found that is directly in Excel format. In general quite a bit of data is available from the U. S. Government.

Here are some links to find various data on the national debt and related items.

• The GAO (possibly an oxymormoronic name) provides much data. Some specific links are given below.
• GAO Schedules of Federal Debt.
• Federal debt links.
• The national debt to the penny is given here.
• Summary schedules of federal debt.
• Outstanding debt over the date range from 2000 to 2008, given annually.
• Budget for fiscal year 2009 report (pdf).
• Monthly government public debt statement.
• Lastly see the many references at the end of this wiki page on the national debt.
• See this article on the public debt from 1861 to 1975.

Other national debt links:

• Not enough digits in the debt clock.
• National debt graph since the Great Depression.
• National debt FAQ by the Treasury.