Download spreadsheets containing historic time-series data for the major indicators (such as housing starts, retail sales, GDP, and construction spending).
Find economic and demographic data for North Carolina, plus links to other statistics (education, crime, environment, etc.) collected by state agencies.
This website from the Economic Policy Institute offers charts and tables on issues like unemployment, poverty, and income. The underlying data can be downloaded for Excel.
Use the IMF's World Economic Outlook databases for country-level macroeconomic data, or access financial data like debt, exchange rates, and investment.
The DataBank contains country-by-country time series data on hundred of economic and social indicators, including GDP, inflation, national debt and savings.