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Economics and Business
- Business Navigator (New York Times)
- Business Research Guide (Rutgers University Libraries)
- CEO Express - Directory for the person in the corner office
- Intelligence Index and CI Tools - Directory for competitive intelligence (Fuld and Co.)
- Business Reference Services
- BEOnline - Subject guides to Internet resources in business and economics
- Business and Economics Research Advisor (BERA) - An occasional series, each on focusing on a specific subject
- Indexes, Bibliographies, and Guides
Library of Congress:
- Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
- Scout Report for Business and Economics - No longer updated, but the archives are searchable (Internet Scout Project)
- WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics
- Advertising Age (Ad Age)
- Bloomberg BusinessWeek
- Bloomberg News
- Business Insider
- Business Journals - Serving major U.S. cities
- BusinessWire - Press releases, regulatory filings, etc.
- CNN Money
- The Economist - British publication with international interests
- Gallup Organization - Many of its polls have to do with opinion on the state of the economy
- Multinational Monitor
- Quartz
- Special Issues - Special issues of magazines, mostly trade publications (Compiled by Hill Reference Library, a business library in St. Paul, Minn.)
- Special Issues: Gary Price's List of Lists - Tops in many categories, mostly business
- Wall Street Journal - Most content requires a subscription
- Yahoo Finance - Financial news, stock quotes, other tools
- Money - Past, Present, and Future (Roy Davies)
- Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) - Sections for comprehensive (i.e., worldwide), regional, and national sites (U. of North Carolina at Charlotte)
- Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
- Doing Business - Comparative data on doing business in different countries (World Bank)
- Economist.com: Topics - Information on many topics. Clicking on a country name gives you current news and economic info
- GlobalEdge - Economic and business information (Michigan State University)
- Index of Economic Freedom - Countries ranked (Heritage Foundation)
- BuyUSA.gov (U.S. Commercial Service, Commerce Dept.)
- Export.gov - "Helping U.S. companies export"
- Foreign Agricultural Service - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture information on selling farm products overseas
- Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS) (GlobalEdge)
- International Trade Statistics
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Preprints in the social sciences, mainly economics and related subjects
- BizSeer.ist - Search engine for academic business literature (formerly SMEAL Search, Penn State)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics - A respository for academic research
- IDEAS - "The largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet"
- BEOnline Statistics (Library of Congress business reference services)
- Business Statistics on the Web (Paula Berinstein)
- Econdata.net - Source for all kinds of data
- International Monterary Fund (IMF) Data and Statistics
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) - The major industrialized nations
- UC Atlas of Global Inequality - Compare countries and specific factors, such as economics, education, and environment (UC Santa Cruz)
- World Bank:
- World Bank Open Data
- World DataBank lets you do analysis and visualization
- World Bank Open Knowledge Repository - Reports and papers
- Economic and Financial Data for the United States - Links to sources of economic data produced by government agencies (Treasury Dept.)
- Bureau of Economic Analysis:
- U.S. Economy at a Glance
- BEArfacts - State, county, and metro area data on personal income and gross domestic product (GDP)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Economic News Releases
- Economy at a Glance - Data for states and metropolitan areas
- Databases, Tables, and Calculators by Subject - Inflation and prices, employment/unemployment, pay and benefits, spending and time use, productivity, workplace injuries
- Statistics on Pay and Benefits
- Census Bureau:
- Census Bureau Economic Statistics
- Current Population Survey - Labor force statistics (but also families and living arrangements, school enrollment, etc.) (Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Economic Indicators
- Compare 50 - Economic statistics for the 50 states
- Commerce Dept.: Key Economic Indicators
- The Conference Board - Source for data such as leading economic indicators and consumer confidence
- Congressional Budget Office: Economy - Assessments and predictions about the economy, especially with regard to the federal government's budget
- Council of Economic Advisers
- Economic Indicators - Gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, federal finance, and international statistics.
- Economic Report of the President
- Federal Reserve System
- Federal Reserve Board: Statistics and Historical Data
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:
- Page One Economics - "The back story on front page economics"
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
- National Association for Business Economics (NABE) links - Useful directory of sites for a variety of economic data
- National Center for Children in Poverty - Includes data
- State of Working America
- Consumer Price Index (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Measuring Worth - Measures of worth, such as currency values, purchasing power, inflation rates, stock indexes, GDP, wages, gold prices, interest rates
- U.S. Daily Index: The Billion Prices Index - A project to collect price data and calculate the inflation rate (MIT)
- AllBusiness
- Inc. magazine
- SCORE - Small business advice and mentoring
- Small Business Administration
- Business.USA.gov - Assistance for small businesses
- Recent Business and Economics Books Cataloged at the Library of Congress
Business News:
Money:
International Trade:
These sites have sections devoted to doing business in specific countries
U.S. Government:
Trade Statistics:
Economics Research:
Economics Data Sources:
See also
United States:
Prices, Inflation:
Small Business:
Government Assistance:
Business and Economics Books:
Labor
- AFL-CIO
- American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Labor Research Portal (Institute of Industrial Relations Library, UC Berkeley)
- WageIndicator - International comparisons of salaries and labor law
Career
- Get That Gig - Includes "day in the life" articles
- Quintessential Careers
- U.S. Civil Service: Classification and Qualifications
- Career One Stop - Advice on careers, salaries, and finding a job
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- O*Net - Successor to Dictionary of Occupational Titles
U.S. Dept. of Labor:
- America's Job Bank
- CareerBuilder.com
- Craigslist
- Glassdoor - Has reviews of companies
- Indeed - Aggregates listings from other job sites
- LinkedIn - The business social networking site may help you find a job
- Monster.com (Jobs.com is another interface)
- Simply Hired
- USA Jobs - Federal government jobs (U.S. Office of Personnel Management)
- Kickstarter
Finding a Job:
Financing Your Creative Project:
Personal Finance and Investments
- 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy - Lots of advice, calculators, etc. (American Institute of CPAs)
- Forbes Personal Finance
- Investopedia - News, advice, tutorials, video, dictionary
- Kiplinger Tools - Calculators to help you make financial decisions
- Motley Fool - Investment advice, often contrary to conventional wisdom
- MarketWatch - News and advice
- MSN Money
- Practical Money Skills (Visa)
- Quicken - Includes money management tips as well as the famous financial software
- Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
- SmartCheck.gov "Free tools to check the background of financial professionals and stay informed on the latest fraud schemes" (Community Futures Trading Commission)
- Annual Reports - Collection of annual reports from over 5,000 companies
- Big Charts - Stock charts
- Daily Stocks - Links to all kinds of stock news
- EDGAR - The database of corporate filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Hoover's Company Profiles - Public and private, U.S. and non-U.S. Some info is free, but you get more with a subscription
- Justquotes is a whole lot more than just quotes
- Open Corporates - "The open database of the corporate world"
- Quicken.com Investments - Stock quotes and other info (formerly Networth)
- Security APL Quote Server - Stock quotes and other market information
- Stockmaster (was: Stock and Mutual Fund Information from MIT)
- Corporate Information - Company snapshots, top 100 lists, currency exchange rates, and links for industries and countries; more information on companies is available by subscription (Wright Investors' Service)
- Industry Resarch Desk - Extensive guide to doing research on industries. (Don't let the plain look of the site put you off.)
- North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) - Many business and economic information systems use these codes.
- Social Funds - Compare mutual funds with socially responsible investing criteria
- E-Trade
- Charles Schwab
- Bankrate.com - Interest on mortgages, credit cards, etc.
- FXConverter - Currency conversion (Oanda.com)
- Xe.com: The Universal Currency Converter
- Yahoo Finance Currency Conversion - Includes many unusual currencies
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Forms and Publications
- State Tax Forms and Filing Options (Federation of Tax Administrators)
Investing and Personal Finance Advice:
Check on Finance Pros
Company Directories and Other Information (for investors):
See also
Corporate Research:
Socially Responsible Investing:
Brokerage Firms:
Interest Rates:
Currency Conversion:
Foreign exchange
Taxation:
Consumer, Shopping
See also
- Company Directories (for investors), above
- For searching for businesses, see U.S. Local Information
- BEOnline Consumer Information (Library of Congress Business Reference Services)
- Shopping Spot
- Get Human - Phone numbers and techniques for getting a human on the phone at major companies
- Co-op America's Green Pages - Socially and environmentally responsible products and services
- Responsible Shopper - Large national companies and brands
- Kompass - Millions of companies and their products
- Manta - "Big finds from small business"
- ThomasNet - Manufactured goods (Thomas Register of Manufacturers and Thomas Regional)
- California Business Search - Corporations, LPs, and LLCs (California Secretary of State)
- Become.com
- Bizrate
- Google Shopping - Searches the Web to find the best price on your product (formerly Froogle and Google Product Search)
- mySimon
- PriceGrabber
- Shopping.com
- Amazon.com
- eBay - Best known as an auction site, but you don't always have to bid in order to purchase items here
- Overstock.com
- Shopzilla
- Yahoo Shopping
- Angie's List - Subscription site for reviews of service businesses
- Better Business Bureau - Check a business' or charity's rating and see if it has any complaints against it
- Consumer Reports - Some content requires a subscription
- ConsumerSearch - Reviews of products from many sources
- Epinions - Users register their opinions about all kinds of goods and services
- Ratings.Net
- Yelp - Users review businesses in major U.S. cities
- Consumer Complaints and Protection - Advice and help from various government agencies [ConsumerAction.gov]
- Consumer Information (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission - News about products
- Recalls.gov - Find products that have been recalled
- Filing a Consumer Complaint (USA.gov)
- Consumer Complaint Database - For complaints about financial institutions (Consumer Finance Protection Bureau)
- eConsumer.gov - A portal to report complaints about online and related transactions with foreign companies
- Cars.com - New and used cars, finance, advice
- Edmunds - Prices and reviews
- Kelley Blue Book - Price guide
- NADA Guides - Price guide
- Homesales.gov - Single-family homes for sale by the U.S. government
- Realtor.com
- Trulia - Real estate for sale
- Zillow - Get an estimate on the value of a property
- Zip Realty - MLS listings
- Local U.S. Pharmacies
- Craigslist - Advertising and discussion for cities in the U.S. and around the world
- National Do Not Call Registry - If you live in the U.S. and don't want telemarketers calling you, sign up here. If they call anyway, file a complaint
- Book Sources - Publishers, bookstores, etc.
- Bookstore Hall of Fame
- Music labels, Blues
- Fun Places to Buy Stuff
- Lands' End - Where I get much of my fabulous wardrobe
- Moleskine - Nice notebooks that make you want to write something important in them.
- Moleskine hacks and More Moleskine hacks (43 Folders)
- Papyrus - Greeting cards and more
- J. Peterman - I can't help it: I love the stories in the catalog
- Teva - The next best thing to going barefoot
Shopping Web Directory:
Company Directories (for consumers):
Includes directories of products purchased by businesses, as well as those purchased by consumers
California:
Product Search Engines and Price Comparisons:
Online Emporia:
Sites that sell all kinds of things.
Consumer Reviews and Opinions:
Consumer Advice:
Product Safety and Recalls:
Complaints:
Automobiles:
Real Estate, Housing:
Other Industries and Products:
Classified Ads:
Telemarketers:
Favorite Companies and Products:
See also
I like these companies and products. Your mileage may vary