Give me more data

This is great! Via Newmark's Door comes word that the Statistical Abstract is online.

I graduated from college in 1994, just over 10 years ago. The single best thing that has happened for academic economists since then is, in my humble opinion, the proliferation of free data online. I can get material for my classes in half an hour that would have taken an afternoon at the library, and perhaps an interlibrary loan request when I was in college. That's quantifiable progress.