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  1. Economics - Nobel Laureates Since 1981 (Nobel Foundation)
      Provides short biographies of the Nobel laureates in economics since 1981. 9-00

  2. Economics

  3. -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

  4. -Editorial: U.S. Combating Iran Through Economics (MSNBC News - Hirsh)
      "[Stuart] Levey, the undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, has been leading the U.S. campaign to isolate and slowly asphyxiate the Iranian economy." 01-07

  5. -"Trickle Down" Economics and Taxing the Rich (HowStuffWorks.com)
      "Wanniski explains in "The Way the World Works" how boosting the supply side of the economy rather than the demand side is the way to economic prosperity. He also makes clear that cutting the prohibitive, high taxes of the wealthy will encourage more economic activity and growth for all. Redubbed supply-side economics (which supporters find a less polarizing name), trickle-down economics found new life in the United States in the 1980s." 01-12

  6. -11-11-15 Editorial: Republicans Still Advocating Supply Side Economics (Time.com)
      "But there was little real grappling with the fact that every recovery since the early 1990s has been weaker, and taken longer, regardless of which party was in charge. That’s really the key problem for Republicans – there have been serious changes in the nature of the global economy since the Reagan era, and the old formula of 'cut taxes, cut red tape, get growth' just doesn’t hold up anymore." 11-15

  7. Budget Deficit - Debt Clock (Brillig.com)
      In October of 2009, the national debt was around $12 trillion, the largest in U.S. history. Provides a clock that records the national debt each minute.

      "The estimated population of the United States is 307,119,045 so each citizen's share of this debt is $38,924.61." 10-09

  8. U.S. Small Business Administration Services
      Provides information for small businesses. 10-09

  9. Better Business Bureaus (BBB.org)
      Provides a directory providing state by state addresses, telephone and FAX numbers. 10-09

  10. Business Profiles (Search.com)
      Provides keyword searches. 10-09

  11. EDGAR Database of Corporate Information (SEC.gov)
      Provides corporate information. 10-09

  12. Investment Research Center (CNN News)
      Provides data on markets. 10-09

  13. The American Stock Exchange (NYSE.com)
      Provides data on markets. 10-09

  14. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (MinneapolisFed.org)
      Provides news. 10-09

  15. The Department of the Treasury (USTreas.gov)
      Provides news. 10-09

  16. History of Money from Ancient Times to Present Day (Davies)
      Provides a history. 10-09

  17. Tokyo Stock Exchange

  18. Social Security Administration
      Provides news and other information related to social security. 12-13

  19. Tax Cuts and Social Security (Center on Budget and Planning Priorities - Kogan, Greenstein, and OrszagKogan)
      Concludes that "the 75-year cost of the tax cut Is more than twice as large as the long-term deficit in social security." 2-02

  20. 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

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