Confusing terminology? Check International Finance Glossary or investorwords.com

DATA LINKS

Federal Reserve has data on all kinds of US interest rates and the exchange rates ®

Economagic ECB data has data on all kinds of European exchange rates and interest rates ®

CIA World Factbook is a very useful source of current country info ®

Penn World Table has data on Price levels as a percentage of GDP (series p).  Dowload PWT6.1 ®

Bureau of Labor Statistics has a lot of US and international data, as well as links to other sites ®

For the US data on anything, see FedStats ® and Bureau of Economic Analysis ® or go directly to Economic Report of the President  ®

Global Financial Data  includes historical series (Yale IP is required - use library proxy server if necessary)  ®

Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt has rare information on the stock of foreign debt for all developing countries ®

Financial Times have a page on exchange rates -- free access ®

International Monetary Fund's (IMF) International Financial Statistics (IFS) are good.  This data is available on a couple of workstations in SSL, or you can subscribe for a trial account to use the data on-line  ®

Lars Svensson has tons of links on his web site ®