Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Millions of Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

In February 1954 A New Accounting System Was Introduced By The U.S. Treasury Department. Cumulative Daily Figures Are No Longer Available In Daily Statements, But Are Published Monthly. The Data Are Continuous. Source: U.S. Treasury Department, For 1875-1954 Data: Monthly Summary Of Commerce And Finance (House Of Representatives Document No. 573, Part 2), August 1898, And Daily Treasury Statements For 1895 On; For 1954-1959 Data: Annual Report Of The Secretary Of The Treasury, 1954 And 1955; Also Monthly Statement Of Receipts And Expenditures Of The U.S. Government, February 1954, June 1954, January 1956 And Subsequent Issues.

This NBER data series m15001 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 15 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter15.html.

NBER Indicator: m15001