Comment of the Day: Charles Steindel: Intermediate Macroeconomics U.S. Dashboard: "That's a reasonable set... http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/intermediate-macroeconomics-us-dashboard.html?cid=6a00e551f08003883401b7c91da9d8970b#comment-6a00e551f08003883401b7c91da9d8970b
...You might add housing starts (or maybe a series on the ratio of the real net stock of residential capital per household). Capital stock numbers, or manufacturing capacity, could also be interesting, as well as the labor and multifactor productivity series.
Real state and local spending (what governments actually do for people, as opposed to arms and transfers) is also of interest. The recent fairly marked slowing in this is of concern and is, I think, associated with general inability to set and fund sensible public goods priorities...
