ECONOMICS
Note: Useful Periodicals may be found and searched on ProQuest. Examples: Business Week, The Economist, Forbes, Fortune, New York Times (since 1/1/99), the Sun (since 1995) the Wall Street Journal. Remember that you can e-mail articles to yourself from ProQuest. Of local note, the newspaper The Daily Record is now available online. For historical research, see the fine collection of economics journals on JSTOR. The entire holdings of each title from date of earliest issue to very recent dates are available through JSTOR.
Free Websites:
The Asia Pacific Policy Center
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Includes the "Beige Book" detailing current economic conditions and downloadable reports, as well as a wealth of information on the Federal Reserve System and for consumers.
Budget of the United States Government [.pdf]
Budget from the Office of Management and Budget.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2000 and 1990 (a dictionary of place names)
The Gazetteer entry will permit you to see and modify a map of your requested area.
Historical United States Census Browser
Used to compare detailed census data from each decennial census from 1790 to 1970.
ECONOmagic.com: Economic Time Series Page
Includes Most Requested Series, Data by State, U.S. Government statistics, the Banks of Canada, Japan, and Europe; Trade Associations, Private Companies; Unemployment by County (U.S.) and more. Raw material for economic forecasting.
Encyclopedia of Finance The Encyclopedia of Finance is an excellent resource for basic financial information.
Hoover's Online
A non-subscriber's version that nonetheless has a tremendous amount of information about business and their ratings.
How Credit Cards Work
From How Stuff Works
Inflation Calculator, 1800-2002
Consumer Price Index figures from the U.S. Statistical Abstracts and the Historical Statistics of the U.S.
Labor Research Portal (Click on Labor Research Portal from the Main page)
Institute of Industrial Relations Library at UCBerkeley; includes sections on labor unions, the government, labor libraries, globalization, alternative forms of ownership, labor education, international and U.S. labor unions, and labor culture, including music and art.
National Center for Charitable Statistics
Program of the Center for Non-Profits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute.
PollingReport.com
Reports current data on three categories of polls: politics and policy, business/economy, and the American scene.
Statistical Resources on the Web
Statistics from the University of Michigan Documents Center on Agriculture, foreign trade, business and industry, government finance, health, cost of living, housing, demographics, labor and employment, economics, the military, education, politics, energy, finance and currency, sociology, transportation, foreign economics, and weather.
Teach Me Finance
December, 2009
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