Chapter 34 Websites

Economic issues and data on fiscal policy, budgets, and the debt are regularly provided by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which is staffed by professional economists. Recent documents are available at www.cbo.gov. The data on freedoms come from Freedom House's website at www.freedomhouse.org.

A survey of monetary discipline can be found in a January 2000 speech, "Inflation Targeting," by Federal Reserve governor Edward Gramlich at www.federalreserve.gov/speeches/2000.