Economics and Business
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Economics and Business
- Biz/ed - Educational business and economics portal (U.K.)
- Business Navigator (New York Times)
- BusinesSeek - Portal, search engine
- 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 guide 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
- BEOnline
- Subject guide to Internet resources in business and
economics
Library of Congress:
- Money - Past, Present, and Future (Roy Davies)
- Gary Price's List of Lists - Tops in many categories, mostly business
- 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- Scout Report for Business and Economics - No longer updated, but the archives are searchable (Internet Scout Project)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
- CNN Money
- Gallup Organization - Many
of its polls have to do with opinion on the state of the
economy

- Wall Street Journal - Most content requires a subscription
- Yahoo Finance - Financial news, stock quotes, other tools
- Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) - Sections for comprehensive (i.e., worldwide), regional, and national sites (U. of North Carolina at Charlotte)
- BuyUSA.gov: U.S. Commercial Service (U.S. Commerce Dept.)
- Economist.com Country Briefings - Current news and economic info
- GlobalEdge - Economic and business information (Michigan State University)
- BizSeer.ist - Search engine for academic business literature (formerly SMEAL Search, Penn State)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics - A respository for academic research
- Social Science Research Network - Preprints in the social sciences, mainly economics and related subjects
- Business Statistics on the Web (Paula Berinstein)
- Econdata.net - Source for all kinds of data
- 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)
- Economic Data (U.S. Census Bureau)
- Economic Indicators (U.S. Government Printing Office)
- Economic Statistics Briefing Room - Current statistics on all aspects of the economy (White House)
- National Association for Business Economics (NABE) links - Useful directory of sites for a variety of economic data
- Stat USA
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- See also Demographics and Statistics
- Recent Business and Economics Books Cataloged at the Library of Congress
Business News:
International Business:
These sites have sections devoted to doing business in specific countries.
Economics Research:
Data Sources:
United States:
Business and Economics Books:
Labor
- AFL-CIO
- American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- LaborNet (igc)
- Labor Research Portal (Institute of Industrial Relations Library, UC Berkeley)
Career
- Get That Gig - Includes "day in the life" articles
- Quintessential Careers
- Career Voyages - Help for choosing a career and for pursuing your chosen career
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- O*Net - Successor to Dictionary of Occupational Titles
U.S. Dept. of Labor:
- America's Job Bank
- CareerBuilder.com
- Monster.com
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Federal government jobs
- Yahoo Hot Jobs
Job Listings:
Personal Finance and Investments
- Big Charts
- Stock charts

- Corporate Information - Snapshots of companies worldwide (Wright Investors' Service)
- 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
- Motley Fool - Investment advice, often contrary to conventional wisdom
- 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)
- See also Company Directories (for consumers), below
- FXConverter - Currency conversion (Oanda.com)
- Xe.com: The Universal Currency Converter
- Yahoo Finance Currency Conversion - Includes many unusual currencies
- Good Money
- Bankrate.com - Interest on
mortgages, credit cards, etc.

- Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Forms and Publications
Company Directories (for investors):
Currency Conversion:
Foreign exchange
Socially Responsible Investing:
Interest Rates:
Taxation:
Consumer, Shopping
- Co-op America's Green Pages - Socially and environmentally responsible products and services
- Responsible Shopper - Large national companies and brands
- Consumer Action - Advice and help from various government agencies
- Google Catalogs
- Yahoo Shopping
- Kellysearch - Business-to-business directory with U.S., European, and Asian sites
- Kompass - Millions of companies and their products
- ThomasNet - Manufactured goods (Thomas Register of Manufacturers and Thomas Regional)
- See also Company Directories (for investors), above
- For searching for businesses, see also U.S. Local Information
- Become.com - Search engine for finding consumer guides
- 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
- Froogle - Searches the Web to find the best price on your product
- Shopping.com
- Kelley Blue Book
- NADA Guides
- Trulia - Real estate
for sale

- Zillow - Get an
estimate on the value of a property

- Moleskine - Nice notebooks that make you want to write something important in them. See also: Moleskine hacks and More Moleskine hacks (43 Folders) and Moleskine GTD tabs hack (Jerry Brito)
- J. Peterman - I can't help it: I love the stories in the catalog
- Teva - The next best thing to going barefoot
- See also:
- Book Sources - Publishers, bookstores, the Bookstore Hall of Fame
- Music labels, Blues
Company Directories (for consumers):
Includes directories of products purchased by businesses, as well as those purchased by consumers.
Reviews and Opinions:
Price Engines:
Automobile Price Guides:
Real Estate, Housing:
Favorite Companies and Products:
I like these companies and products. Your mileage may vary.