Pat Karasek

Global Financial Data's goal is to provide the most comprehensive historical economic and financial database available anywhere. GFD specializes in providing Financial and Economic Data that extends from the 1000s to present—beyond what traditional data vendors provide. For over twenty-five years Global Financial Data has been accumulating andtranscribing rare data sources into research-quality databases. While we distribute the current market data from traditional data feeds we also offer the historical data that are not available from these common electronic sources. The data we provide have been compiled from original source documents including academic journals, newspapers, periodicals, books and numerous other archival sources. GFD has produced continuous chain-linked data sets by appending the current data series with the historical data which have been verified, cross-referenced and transcribed prior to their inclusion in any GFDatabase.