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Bureau of Economic Analysis Business Profiles (CNet) Provides keyword searches within the topic. 1-01 Comprehensive Business Links (US SBA) EDGAR Database of Corporate Information (SEC Filings) Financial Dictionary (TheFreeDictionary.com) Defines key words. 8-05 Investment Research Center (CNN News) 04-06 The Department of the Treasury The Federal Reserve Materials Economics Test (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Provides a test of economic literacy to see how you compare to a sample of persons who completed the test. 1-03 Economics Tests (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Provides the test questions (and answers) for the annual national contests for student knowledge of economics. 1-05 Mortgage Loan Rates (HSH Associates) The American Stock Exchange (Amex) Tokyo Stock Exchange 9-01 News -10-11-04 Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded (Fox News) "Finn E. Kydland, 60, of Norway, teaches at Carnegie Mellon University (search) in Pittsburgh and the University of California at Santa Barbara (search)." "Edward C. Prescott, 63 — the fifth American to receive the economics award since 2000 — teaches at Arizona State University (search) in Tempe, Ariz., and serves as an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis" ."The pair received Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work that showed that driving forces behind business cycle fluctuations and the design of economic policy are key areas in macroeconomic research." "Kydland and Prescott made fundamental contributions to macroeconomic analysis and the practice of monetary and fiscal policy in many countries, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in its citation." 10-04 -12-26-05 One of Australia's Richest Men Dies (BBC News) "Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, thought to be the country's richest man, has died peacefully at the age of 68 at home among his family in Sydney." 12-05 09-15-03 World Trade Organization Talks Fail (CBS News) "Talks designed to change the face of farming around the world collapsed Sunday amid differences between rich and poor nations, the second failure for the World Trade Organization in four years." 9-03 Papers Cost of Living Index (ACCRA) Compares cost of living by cities of your choice. 12-02 Counterfeit Protection (Federal Reserve) Currency - USA (Federal Reserve) Explains different parts of commonly used currency in the USA. 12-01 Currency Redesign (Federal Reserve) Describes the new designs for currency in the USA. 12-01 Donaldson Nominated for Head of SEC (Sun-Sentinel) "President Bush selected former investment banker William H. Donaldson to head the Securities and Exchange Commission and to restore confidence in markets shaken by a wave of corporate financial scandals." 12-02 Dynamic Hedging (Taleb) Discusses and explains the Black, Scholes, and Merton model for investment. 5-02 Economics - Nobel Laureates Since 1981 (Nobel Foundation) Provides short biographies of the Nobel laureates in economics since 1981. 9-00 Essay - Education in Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - Wirtz) Discusses the role of high school and college economics courses as part of a general education. 1-03 Essay - Why Recent Economies in the USA Rose and Fell (TheAtlantic.com - Stiglitz) "The executives were being rewarded not on the basis of their companies' performance but on the basis of stock prices." "The examples of Enron and Global Crossing prove that incentives matter, and that markets do not always provide the right incentives. That is why government has an important role. Every game has to have rules, and government sets the rules of the economic game. If the rules promote special interests, or the interests of corporate executives, then the outcomes are not likely to promote general interests, or the interests of small shareholders." 12-02 Essays - Education in Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Provides essays on the importance of understanding economics. 1-03 Federal Economic Statistics (White House) "The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators." 1-01 Federal Social Statistics (White House) "The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal social statistics." 1-01 Financial Mathematics (Wikipedia.org) Provides a directory of financial math subjects. "Financial mathematics is the branch of applied mathematics concerned with the financial markets. The subject naturally has a close relationship with the discipline of financial economics, however the subject is narrower in scope and more abstract. A central difference is that whilst a financial economist might study the structural reasons why a company may have a certain share price, a mathematician may take the share price as a given, and attempt to use stochastic calculus to obtain the fair value of derivatives of the stock." Includes the topics of Arbitrage pricing theory, Beta coefficient, Black-Scholes, Bond duration, Bond valuation, Capital asset pricing model, Financial mathematics, Historical volatility, Implied volatility, Malliavin calculus, Modern portfolio theory, Moving average (finance), Put-call parity, Quantitative analyst, Rational pricing, Return (finance), Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, Stochastic calculus, The Greeks, Tobin's-q, Value at risk, and Volatility. 10-04 Freedman, Milton (Hoover Institution) Provides a biography of the economist. "He is widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and as a determinant of business cycles and inflation." 4-02 Glossary for Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Provides an alphabetic list of words commonly used in economics, along with definitions or explanations. 1-03 Hayek, Friedrich August Von Hayek (Mises.org - Klein) Provides a biography of the economist who influenced the views of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. 4-02 John Snow - Comments on Nomination of John Snow as Treasury Secretary (Townhall.com - Novak) "With his economic program's outlines charted, President Bush was looking for a secretary of the Treasury and National Economic adviser who would energetically sell his tax cuts." 12-02 John Snow - Comments on Nominations of John Snow and Stephan Friedman (Townhall.com - Kudlow) "Apparently, Vice President Dick Cheney quietly led a search team that came up with Snow. In contrast, the White House loudly leaked the name of investment banker Stephen Friedman to replace Larry Lindsey as head of the National Economic Council. Neither the stock market nor the rest of the world (nor me) knows much about these men." 12-02 Keynes, John (Economics New School) Provides a biography of the economist. "John Maynard Keynes is doubtlessly one the most important figures in the entire history of economics. He revolutionized economics with his classic book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). This is generally regarded as probably the most influential social science treatise of the 20th Century, in that it quickly and permanently changed the way the world looked at the economy and the role of government in society. No other single book, before or since, has had quite such an impact." 4-02 Labor Statistics by Industry (U.S. Department of Labor) Provides key labor statistics by industry. 12-02 Labor Statistics by State (U.S. Department of Labor) Provides key labor statistics by state and city. 12-02 Schelling, Thomas (Wikipedia.org) "Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics (shared with Robert Aumann) for 'having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis'." 10-05 Schelling, Thomas and Robert Aumann (BBC News) "US citizen Thomas Schelling and Israeli Robert Aumann have won the 2005 Nobel prize in economics for their work in an area known as game theory." 10-05 The History of Money (Federal Reserve) US Small Business Administration Services World Economic Forum (WEForum.org) "The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas." 01-06 Periodicals Entrepreneur Magazine Projects Essay Contest on Economics (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) "Select a major problem concerning the ecological environment. Using economic analysis, show how this problem could be addressed." 1-03

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