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1. Unemployment Rate Statistics:
- U.S. Current CUR
News Release (most recent monthly BLS press release on the Civilian
Unemployment Rate; includes text and detailed tables)
- U.S. Historical CUR
News Release (archive of monthly BLS press releases, 1994-present; includes text and
detailed tables; select by year and month)
- U.S. Historical CUR
Data (by month and annual, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted,
1948-present; select from menu, checking the check box of the series you want,
retrieving the series, then clicking the Change Output Options feature and specifying a more
complete data set if you want data more than 10 years old)
- North Carolina CUR
(by month and annual average, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted,
1978-present; select from menu)
- North Carolina
State and Local CUR Data (including Asheville) (by month and annual
average, unadjusted, 1990-present; available for many different geographic
areas by year and for single geographic areas for many years; select from menu)
- CUR by Selected U.S.
State (and areas within states) (by month and annual average, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted,
1978-present; select from list)
- Inter-state
Comparisons: Annual CUR (most recent annual BLS press release, annual
averages by state, last two years)
- Inter-state
Comparisons: Annual CUR (archive of annual BLS press releases,
1994-present)
- Inter-state
Comparisons: Monthly CUR (most recent monthly BLS press release, by month
and state, seasonally adjusted and unadjusted)
- Inter-state
Comparisons: Monthly CUR (archive of monthly BLS press releases,
1994-present)
- International
Comparisons: Annual CUR (annual average and by quarter or month in most
recent year, adjusted for approximate consistency with U.S. definitions and
standards, 1990-present)
- International
Comparisons: CUR by Selected Country (annual average, adjusted for
approximate consistency with U.S. definitions and standards, dates vary;
select one of 18 countries from menu)
2. Measuring Unemployment
3. Good Starting Points for Labor Market Web Searches
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1. Aggregate Price Level Statistics:
- U.S. Current CPI-U
(Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, U.S. city average, by
expenditure category and commodity & service group, unadjusted, last two
months; includes weight given each group)
- U.S. Current CPI
News Release (most recent monthly BLS press release; includes text and
detailed tables)
- U.S.
Historical CPI News Releases (archive of monthly BLS press releases, 1994-present;
includes text and detailed tables; select by year and month)
- U.S.
Historical CPI-U and Consumer Inflation: Annual Data (CPI for all urban
consumers and inflation rate, U.S. city average, by year, 1913 - present).
- U.S.
Historical CPI-U: Monthly and Annual Data (table, 1913-present, U.S. city
average by month and year)
- U.S. Current PPI
News Release (most recent monthly BLS press release on the Producer Price
Index; includes text and detailed tables)
- U.S.
Historical PPI News Releases (archive of monthly BLS press releases, 1994-present;
includes text and detailed tables; select by year and month)
- International
Comparisons: CPI Inflation Rates (percent change in consumer prices from
the same period the previous year, 9 countries, 1975-present)
- International
Comparisons: CPI and Inflation Rates (CPI, 16 countries, 1950-present;
annual index values with 1982-84 = 100 and annual percentage change)
- International
Comparisons: CPI by Selected Country (annual average, dates vary; select
one of 18 countries from menu)
2. Measuring Inflation
3. Cost of Living Comparisons
- Salary Comparisons:
U.S. Click the "What does it cost?" link, then select the city from which you are leaving, the city are moving to
and the salary you are earning in the city you are leaving. This page will
tell you how much you will have to earn in the new city to match your living
standard in the old city. Includes 399 U.S. cities; takes into account
differences in both prices and taxes. A great site when it works; can be buggy
and slow if you are using a Netscape browser. Keep trying or try using the
Microsoft Explorer browser!
- Salary
Comparisons: U.S. and International Select the city from which you are
leaving, the city are moving to and the salary you are earning in the city you
are leaving. The "Salary Calculator" will tell you how much you will have to
earn in the new city to match your living standard in the old city. Includes
hundreds of U.S. and international cities; the calculated salary is quoted in
the currency used in the city you are moving from. Does not take differences
in taxes into account.
- Changes
in Purchasing Power Over Time: The CPI Calculation Machine Select two
years and a dollar value. The calculation machine will tell you tell you how
many dollars it would take in the second year to buy goods worth the dollar
value you selected in the first year. A simple yet elegant and powerful
illustration of the effect of inflation on the buying power of the dollar.
4. Good Starting Points for Aggregate Price Level Web Searches
- Consumer Price Indexes
(links to BLS CPI information and data)
- CPI News
(links to tables included in most recent BLS CPI press release)
- The FRED Monthly CPI
Files (part of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's electronic data
bank)
- The Federal
Minimum Wage, 1938-present (An interesting application for you to
do: use the historical data on the CPI-U together with the data contained on
this page to calculate the changes in the value of the real minimum wage over
time.)
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1. The Business Cycle
- U.S. Business Cycles (official National Bureau of Economic Research business cycle data from 1854 to present. Includes month of trough, month of peak, duration of contraction in months and duration of expansion in months).
2. GDP Statistics:
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U.S. Current GDP News Release (most recent monthly BEA press release on GDP and related values; includes text and detailed tables; select GDP News Release)
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U.S. Current Nominal GDP (by account, in billions of dollars, quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Historical Nominal GDP (by account, in billions of dollars, annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Current Real GDP (by account, in billions of chained dollars, quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Historical Real GDP (by account, in billions of chained dollars, annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Current Real GDP Growth (annualized percent change by account, quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Historical Real GDP Growth (annual percent change by account, annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Current Nominal Personal Income & Real and Nominal Disposable Personal Income (by disposition, in billions of chained dollars and nominal dollars, quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Historical Nominal Personal Income & Real and Nominal Disposable Personal Income (by disposition, in billions of chained dollars and nominal dollars, annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Current Real and Nominal Per Capita GDP and Disposable Personal Income (in billions of chained dollars and nominal dollars, quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Historical Real and Nominal Per Capita GDP and Disposable Personal Income (by account, in billions of chained dollars and nominal dollars, annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Current Relationships Between Gross Domestic Product, Gross National Product, Net National Product, National Income, and Personal Income (by account, in billions of dollars, quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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US Historical Relationships Between Gross Domestic Product, Gross National Product, Net National Product, National Income, and Personal Income (by account, in billions of dollars, annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Historical Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) (an attempt to address some of the limitations of GDP as a measure of economic welfare; requires the free Adobe Reader; scroll to pages 11 & 22-23 of the pdf document / 9 & 20-21 of the original document; 1950-2002)
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U.S. Current GDP Price Indices (by account, chained price and quantity indices, implicit price deflator; quarterly; click annual radio button to get annual data)
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U.S. Historical GDP Price Indices (by account, chained price and quantity indices, implicit price deflator; annual; click quarterly radio button to get quarterly data; by year 1929-present, by quarter 1947-present)
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U.S. Family Income Gini Coefficients (higher numbers correspond to greater inequality in the distribution of family income, values can range from 0 to 1, total and by race, 1947-2001)
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U.S. and World Current Population Estimate
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U.S. Historical Population Estimate(annual, July 1, 1900 to July 1, 1999)
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U.S. Historical Population Estimate(monthly, April 1, 2000 to present)
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World Historical Population Estimate(irregular, 10,000 BC to 1950)
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World Historical and Projected Population Estimate(quinquennial, 1950 to 2050)
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International Comparisons: GDP (dollars, purchasing power parity)
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International Comparisons: Per Capita GDP (dollars, purchasing power parity)
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International Comparisons: Historical Per Capita Real GDP and More (The Penn World Tables) (purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000, annual averages; select countries, variables and years from menu).
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International Comparisons: Family Income Gini Coefficients (higher numbers correspond to greater inequality in the distribution of family income, values can range from 0 to 100, various years, over 120 countries)
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International Comparisons: Annual Hours Worked (note that the OECD intends for this data to be used to make comparisons of national trends over time . . . see the warning on the use of international hours worked data in the footnotes to Table F; some or all of the years 1960-2004, OECD countries)
3. Measuring Aggregate Output
4. Good Starting Points for Aggregate Output Web Searches
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1. Financial Market Statistics:
- U.S. Current Stock Market Index
Values The Yahoo! U.S. Financial Market Page: one click access to the
current values of the major U.S. financial market indices. Includes the Dow
Jones Averages and the NYSE, NASDAQ, Standard & Poors Composite Indices,
plus many other U.S. stock market indices, Treasury Security Indices and
commodity market indices. Updated every 20 minutes.
- U.S. Historical Stock Market Index
Values From the Yahoo! U.S. Financial Market Page, click the "chart"
hyperlink for the index whose values you seek, then any of the "table"
hyperlinks at the bottom of the chart to which you will have been transported.
From this page you will be able to retrieve historical data on a wide variety
of market indices, stocks, and other securities. For direct access historical
data to the following market indices, click on the appropriate hyperlink: the Dow Jones Industrial Average
(October 1, 1928 to present), the NYSE Composite Index (January
3, 1966 to present), the NASDAQ
Composite Index (October 11, 1984 to present).
- International Current Stock Market
Index Values The Yahoo! World Financial Market Page: one click access to
the current values of the major financial markets outside the U.S. Updated
every 20 minutes.
- U.S. Current Individual
Stock Values and News Access through Yahoo! to a large data base of
individual stock information. If you don't know the company whose data you
seeks ticker symbol, click here: click
here.
- U.S. Historical Individual Stock
Values Access through Yahoo! to a large data base of historical stock
prices. To learn the ticker symbol for the company whose data you are seeking,
click here: click here.
- U.S. Current
Interest Rates Selected U.S. interest rates (plus the Eurodollar deposit
rates) updated daily at 4pm by the Federal Reserve.
- U.S. Historical
Interest Rates Selected U.S. interest rates (plus the Eurodollar deposit
rates) by day, week, month and year as far back in some series as 1954;
maintained by the Federal Reserve.
- U.S. Current and
Historical Default-Free ("Risk Free") Rate The 3-month T-bill rate on the
secondary market, weekly average, 01/08/1954 to present (i.e., the
U.S. default-free interest rate).
- U.S. Treasury
Securities Offering Announcement Press Releases Announcements of pending
auctions and of auctions completed within the past 4 months or so.
- U.S. Treasury
Securities Auction Results Press Releases Announcements of results of most
recent completed auctions of auctions completed within the past 4 months or
so. To read these press releases, you'll need the free Adobe
Acrobat Reader .
- U.S. Current Treasury
Security Yield Curve From the Bloomberg Website.
- Current Exchange Rates
CNN Financial News Currency Markets Page: one click access to the rates at
which most of the world's currencies trade for each other. Continuously
updated.
- U.S. Historical
Exchange Rates The FRED Historical Exchange Rate Data Files: time series
data on the rates at which a number of the world's major currencies have
traded for the dollar; part of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis's
electronic data bank.
2. The Economics of Financial Markets and Interest Rates
3. Information on Individual Companies and Stocks
- Click here to look up a ticker symbol.
Enter any part of the company name, mutual fund, market index, or
corporate bond whose symbol you seek and let Yahoo! search for you.
- U.S. Current Individual
Stock Values and News Access through Yahoo! to a large data base of
individual stock information. If you don't know the company whose data you
seek's ticker symbol, click here: click
here.
- U.S. Historical Individual Stock
Values Access through Yahoo! to a large data base of historical stock
prices. To learn the ticker symbol for the company whose data you are seeking,
click here: click here.
- U.S. Current Beta Values
(Yahoo!) Look up or type the company's ticker symbol (don't be confused;
this link opens to the page with Microsoft's beta but allows you to link to
the page describing the company whose beta you seek).
- U.S. and Canadian
Current Beta Values (WSRN) Look up or type the company's ticker symbol,
then scroll down to "Research Reports" and click "QuickSource:
Description & Stats." Scan the page to find the beta you seek. Note that
the values on the Yahoo! and WSRN pages generally differ. This is due to the
fact that betas change over time in response to changes in company financial
and operating structures, product lines, international exposure and external
liquidity. Betas estimated at different times and using different data sets
will have different values.
- U.S.
Current and Historical Financial Statements and Reports . Morningstar's very convenient link to
the SEC's EDGAR database .
Includes an explanation of what each type of report contains (10-K, 10-Q,
etc.); pulls all reports of the type you select from the EDGAR database. Type
the company's ticker symbol in the box in the upper left corner (don't be
confused; this link opens to the portal to Microsoft's financial records but
allows you to link to the appropriate page for the company whose records you
seek).
- U.S. Current
and Recent Earnings Forecasts . Bloomberg's convenient presentation of
the earnings estimates compiled and summarized by Zacks Investment Research . Type the
company's ticker symbol in the box in the upper center left of the page (don't
be confused; this link opens to the page displaying Microsoft's earnings
forecasts but allows you to link to the appropriate page for the company whose
forecasts you seek).
- Annual Reports
The Public Register's online annual report viewing and ordering
service. Visit the homepages and order the annual reports of over 2,000
companies from this site.
- The Yahoo! Finance Page. Great place
to start your search for financial information. Access to the latest financial
news stories, the current values of all the major financial variables,
information and current quotations for individual companies.
- Wall Street Research Net Many useful
services, some for free, some not. A good portal through which to research
companies listed on the U.S. NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX exchanges plus the OTC
Bulletin Board and the Canadian Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Alberta
exchanges. Includes convenient company-specific links to EDGAR, press
releases, quotes, charts, summaries, etc. Go to the main page to get an idea
of what is available; click here to search for
information on a specific company.
- TradingDay.com Another good
portal through which to research companies traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX
exchanges and obtain investment advice. Includes a nice page through which to
obtain information of interest to technical analysts. Click
here to search for "technical" data and charts for a specific company.
- Dowjones.com's searchable
archive From the publishers of The Wall Street Journal, this is a
convenient site for searching for recent news articles on subjects of
financial, economic and business interest. Links directly to some articles,
for others you must pay (student subscribers to The Wall Street Journal
have access to some of these paid links for free: remember your userid and
password!). Very good collections of articles and links to related websites on
the economy (U.S. and
international) , individual industries
, personal finance
(including an online version of the excellent The Wall Street Journal
Guide to Money and Investing ), and other interesting and useful stuff
including a searchable index of
business articles .
- The Economist's searchable
archive View a selection of articles from the most recent issue of this
irreverent English business and economics news weekly or search its archive of
past articles. One of my favorite magazines.
- The Financial
Times searchable archive Links to recent articles and other good stuff
from the Financial Times .
4. Financial Market Descriptions and Institutional Detail
- The New York Stock Exchange's Website
- The NASDAQ and American Exchange's
Website
- The Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board
Look here for information about this quotation service facilitating trade
in the stocks of over 6,500 smaller U.S. companies. Click here to jump
directly to an
overview.
- The Arizona Exchange's Website Though
small, the AZX is based on an innovative trading system that may prove the
wave of the future. Trades on most exchanges involve intermediaries
(specialists on the NYSE, dealers on the NASDAQ). Traders make offers to buy
and sell that are either accepted or rejected. Every trade can occur at a
different price. Potential buyers and sellers of securities traded on the AZX,
on the other hand, submit confidential offers to buy or sell particular
quantities of particular securities at particular prices electronically. At
pre-scheduled times the exchange creates what is in essence a demand and
supply diagram using the various offers and uses it to determine the market
clearing price. All trades in the security occur at this single price. Only
those potential buyers whose offers to buy were at prices equal to or above
this price and only those potential sellers whose offers to sell were at
prices equal to or below this price actually trade. The asset trading game
used in ECON 305 is based on a trading system like that used by the AZX.
- The Chicago Board of Trade's Website
The CBOT is the world's oldest and largest futures and options exchange.
Click here to learn
what is traded at a futures and options exchange, why futures and options
exchanges exist, the differences between the CBOT and the Merc, and much more
; click here to jump to a virtual tour
of this important institution. Another good place to start is this quick overview.
- The Chicago Mercantile Exchange's
Website. Another good place to go to learn about futures and options
trading, this site is very "learner friendly" with some great instructional
material. For $10 you can even sign up for a service that allows you to make
simulated trades for a month! To access live quotations, register for free. Favorite links
include A Day in the
Life(of a trader on the Merc), About the Exchange and Live Simulated Online Trading.
- Additional U.S. Markets
Links to the homepages of many more U.S. stock exchanges, currency
markets, bond markets, futures and options markets, etc.
- Additional non-U.S.
Markets Links to the homepages of many more U.S. stock exchanges, currency
markets, bond markets, futures and options markets, etc.
- The Securities Industry Association Website
A great place to find information and statistics on the securities
industry. Scroll down the homepage to find links to the types of information
you seek. Click here for a good starting point for securities
industry data; click here for a good starting point for information
and publications of interest to investors.
5. Investment Advice and Information
- The Wall Street
Journal Guide to Money and Investing Excellent introduction financial
markets and investments.
- Financial Engines' Online
Investment Advisor Created by Nobel Prize-winning economist William F.
Sharpe, this site generates forecasts of future retirement income and
probabilities of the likelihood the user will meet his or her retirement goals
based on the user's current goals and investment portfolio. For a charge, the
site can also provide specific advice regarding portfolio reallocations.
Though limited at this time to tax-deferred portfolios, this is an incredible
site every investor would benefit from visiting.
6. Additional Sources of Financial Market Information
- The FRED
Daily/Weekly U.S. Financial Data Files The place to go for a wide variety
of interest rate time series data; part of the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis's electronic data bank.
- The Yahoo! Finance Page. Great place
to start your search for financial information. Access to the latest financial
news stories, the current values of all the major financial variables,
information and current quotations for individual companies.
- Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network.
Interesting site by the Chief Economist and Global Investment Strategist of
Deutsche Banc Alex. Links to economic and stock market analysis, briefings,
forecasts, charts, etc. Very well done.
- The SEC's EDGAR database
Online source of the reports the SEC requires companies to file; this is
the place to look for a company's financial statements. The 10-K is especially
useful; it includes a company's three most recent sets of annual financial
statements. Click here to
search the EDGAR database ; then type in the name of the publicaly traded
company whose financial reports you seek.
- Invest-o-rama
- Morningstar
- The Wall Street Directory
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- High Country News
Bi-weekly newspaper published in Paonia, CO whose focus is on
resource issues in the western U.S. A great source of well written articles of
interest to students interested in environmental and resource economics. Searchable.
- EcoNet. A great
place to go if you want to keep abreast of the "traditional" environmental
movement. Replete with action alerts, late-breaking environmental news stories
and sub-pages devoted to a wide variety of environmental issues. Want to learn
more about environmental racism?
This is the place to go.
- The Electronic Drummer. The
Electronic Drummer is the WWW newsletter of the Thoreau Institute, an
organization dedicated to heeding Henry David Thoreau's call for preserving
the environment without big government. This is a great place to begin
searches for data on controversial natural resource management issues.
Example: only five national forests made money on timber sales in 1995. Want
to know which five? For complete 1995 forest-by-forest timber sale accounting
data, click
here.
- Free-market Economics FAQ
"No single tool will solve all environmental problems. But one powerful
tool--the market--has been neglected by environmentalists in recent years. The
Thoreau Institute is a free-market environmental group not because it believes
that markets are a panacea for all problems--they aren't--but because
Institute research has found that markets will solve many environmental
problems better than more government regulation. These answers to
frequently-asked questions about free-market environmentalism will help
explain these ideas."
- Wild Wilderness. "Wild
Wilderness believes that America's public recreation lands are a national
treasure that must be financially supported by the American people and held in
public ownership as a legacy for future generations." For the other side of
one aspect of the debate on "free market environmentalism
" (user fees) visit this well done site.
- The Environmental Defense Fund. The
Environmental Defense Fund is a NY-based nonprofit representing 300,000
members. One of the leaders in combining science, economics, and law to combat
environmental problems, it is the EDF that is perhaps most responsible for the
creation of a market for tradable pollution permits. Click
here to find out how much pollution is created producing the electricity
you use each year (based on where you live and your monthly electric bill).
- Defenders of Wildlife. An
organization dedicated to slowing the accelerating rate of species extinction
and the associated loss of biological diversity due to habitat alteration and
destruction. Defenders of Wildlife pioneered such innovative approaches as
paying property owners for raising wolf pups on their property and
compensating ranchers for livestock killed by wolves.
- The Political Economy Research Center.
PERC is a research center at Montana State University applying economic
ideas to understand and combat environmental problems. A bastion of "free market environmentalism,"
PERC offers an expenses-paid summer seminar for college
students.
- Foundation for Research on Economics
and the Environment. A second bastion of free market
environmentalism, FREE advocates the use of incentive-based approaches to
environmental and natural resource management.
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- Index of Economic Freedom. An
on-line compilation of significant chapters and charts from a book
co-published annually by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal,
this index will give you a good feel for where 160 of the world's national
economies are located on the continuum stretching from complete laissez-faire
to total command and control. Includes links to a chapter on the methodology used to
construct the index, charts of the
index's rankings, and a scatter
diagram illustrating the relationship the authors believe exists between
economic freedom and national wealth.
- Budget of
the United States Government for the Coming Fiscal Year, with links to the
Current
Economic Report of the President and the annual budgets and Economic
reports dating back to 1995. To read these materials, load the free Adobe Acrobat
Reader .
- The U.S. Federal Reserve
Bank's General Information Page A good place to learn more about the
world's most powerful central bank. Click here to jump straight to a detailed description of the Fed's
purposes and functions (including discussions of monetary policy, the
Federal Open Market Committee, foreign currency operations, the Fed's
supervisory and regulatory responsibilities, etc.). You'll need the free Adobe Acrobat
Reader .
- Mark Bernkopf's Central
Banking Resource Center A great set of links on monetary policy and
central banking. See for example The History of Central
Banking.
- Antitrust Division, U.S.
Department of Justice. Want to know more about the DOJ's case against
Microsoft, including transcripts of the direct testimony and Bill Gates'
deposition? Other current antitrust cases? This is a good place to start.
- Statistics on
Poverty in the U.S. A portal to statistics compiled by the U.S. Department
of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. For the most recent statistics, scroll down
to Current Population Statistics and click on Poverty in the United
States:. As of February, 2000, clicking on Poverty in the United
States: will give you data for 1998. For the 1995-1997 pages, alter the
year in the URL from 98 to 95 or 96, etc. Particularly useful elements of
these sites include the Press Briefings and the Poverty Estimates by
Selected Characteristics. The following links are examples of what is
available as of February, 2000 (all for 1998):
- Press
Briefing, including links to graphs of poverty
numbers and rates, 1959 to present and poverty rates
by age, 1959 to present.
- Poverty
Estimates by Selected Characteristics (including age, family status,
race, location, etc.)
- Poverty
Thresholds (the income limits, by size of family and number of related
children under 18, used by the Census Bureau to calculate the number of
people in poverty)
- Percent of
People in Poverty, by Definition of Income (the number and percent of
people considered in poverty using alternate income thresholds)
- Historical
Statistics on Income and Poverty in the U.S.. A wealth of information,
including statistics on changes in the distribution of income over time:
- Institute for Research on Poverty
. An excellent starting point for research on poverty. Opens to a
hypertext linked FAQ on poverty, including answers to the questions How is Poverty Measured? (a
brief history of the creation of the poverty thresholds).
- Joint Center for Poverty Research .
Another excellent starting point for research on poverty.
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1. Introduction to Central Banking and Monetary Policy
2. The U.S. Federal Reserve Banking System's Websites
3. Non-U.S. Central Bank Websites
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- WebEc: WWW Resources in
Economics An amazing attempt to categorize all free information on
economics on the WWW by sub-discipline. Updated frequently; a fantastic
resource. Searchable .
- Resources for
Economists on the Internet Another great starting place for searches for
economics information on the internet. Includes those sites author Bill Goffe
believes contain "substantial amounts of information or are specialized to a
specific area." Includes links to such all-time classic sites as Jokes About Economists and
Economics. Searchable
.
- Amos World "Guide to all Things
Economic...And the Home of Mister Economy." Humorous, informative and highly
entertaining, this site has something for everyone from absolute newcomers to
the world of economics to the most jaded of professional economists. A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy
is not to be missed! Searchable .
- William A. Barnett's
Recommendations Page for Economists Excellent guide to web pages of
interest to economists complete with a 5-star rating system. Although this
guide is directed primarily towards professional economists, is has something
of interest for almost everyone. See, for example, Barnett's travel recommendations
. Searchable .
- Current
Economic Data and Links One-stop shopping for current economic data with
links to the source material. Originally created by Dr. John A. Shaw to give
him instant access to the values of a wide variety of economic indicators for
use in his lectures.
- Economics
Departments on the Internet Ed Price's directory of U.S. economics
department homepages. Find out what your peers elsewhere have to put up with!
Searchable . See also
Christian Zimmerman's world-wide
list of economics departments, institutes and research centers. Searchable
.
- FAIRMODEL Your chance to be
an economic god or goddess: play with a large-scale macroeconomic model of the
U.S. economy, forecasting the results of policy changes of your own choosing.
Developed by Ray Fair, this model is one of the best at mimicing the actual
performance of the U.S. macroeconomy.
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