Foster Associates
This 40-year-old economic consulting firm provides information and
analyses for the U.S. economy, states, metro areas, and the
natural gas and electricity industries. These reports are freely
available. The "Economic Insight/Macro edition" "offers insight
into current macroeconomic conditions, business cycle developments,
and long term economic trends and issues. It surveys both real and
financial sectors of the U.S. economy and provides a quarterly GDP
forecast with detailed explanations of forecast assumptions and
risks." This material is updated weekly, monthly, and
quarterly. They also offer detailed analyses of the current
economy. "The State and Metro area editions of the Foster Forecast
provide economic analysis and performance measures for all 50 states
and over 350 metro areas in the U.S., including relative income and
wage levels, employment growth and volatility, and employment,
income, and location quotients by major industry." The state and
metro area information is updated annually. Detailed analyses,
population, income, and employment forecasts are available for a fee
for all states, counties and metro areas. Currently only examples
from some areas are available. Other areas will be added in the
future. (David Carrier kindly looked over this entry.)
http://www.foster-fa.com/
