Link to Berkeley Electronic Press - The Economists Voice (readable analysis of current events by notable economists; fill in requested info - its a safe site and free)

MACROECONOMIC BLOGS:  ECONOMICS ROUNDTABLE : The list of blogs written by economists is growing. The Economics Roundtable links to about 120 economics blogs.

http://forestpolicy.typepad.com/economics This link is titled Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares. It is constructed and managed by my friend and co-author David Iverson. Iverson is a natural resource economist for the U.S. Forest Service. This blog will chronicle Iverson's attempts to decipher the workings of complex and politically wicked systems in terms of geopolitics, macroeconomics, and international finance.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html This link takes you to the Economic Statistics Briefing Room at the White House home page. It includes the latest government data on employment, output, prices, interest rates, etc. The U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Commerce prepare it.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/index.html Economic Indicators prepared by the Council of Economic Advisors for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress. Monthly updates of many, if not most, of the macroeconomic information tables useful to students of macroeconomics. Look here for the latest data on such things as: total output, income and spending; employment, unemployment, and wages; production and business activity; prices; money, credit, and security markets; federal finance; and international statistics.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/2008/2008_erp.pdf  The 2008 Economic Report of the President. The ERP is one of the most important sources of information concerning the recent state of the economy and how the President's advisors would answer your final examination essay question. This is the report for 2008; you may find it interesting to go back and look at other ERPs over time. For example, compare the Bush administration reports with those of the Clinton years.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/2007/2007_erp.pdf  The 2007 Economic Report of the President. The ERP is one of the most important sources of information concerning the recent state of the economy and how the President's advisors would answer your final examination essay question.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/erp06.pdf  The 2006 Economic Report of the President. The ERP is one of the most important sources of information concerning the recent state of the economy and how the President's advisors would answer your final examination essay question.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/erpcover2005.pdf  The 2005 Economic Report of the President. The ERP is one of the most important sources of information concerning the recent state of the economy and how the President's advisors would answer your final examination essay question.

http://www.bea.gov The home page of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (Department of Commerce), which is the agency that develops the National Income and Product Accounts. Fairly easy way to get the latest statistics on the national economy.

http://www.bea.gov/bea/pubs.htm The home page of the Survey of Current Business, where you can view data tables in PDF format.

http://stats.bls.gov/ The home page of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://www.fedstats.gov/ The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

http://www.cbo.gov/ The home page of the Congressional Budget Office. Projections of government surplus (or deficit). The CBO also makes estimates of the so-called natural rate of unemployment or NAIRU. (Search the page for the latest revisions.)

http://www.economagic.com/ Economic Time Series. Browse Data Collections. Over 100,000 data files, with charts and excel files for each. Another service of a for-profit firm, but the data is easy to get and covers an amazing array of macroeconomic data.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/ The home page of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. This is the place to look for breaking news/press releases and information on the structure of the Fed. To get to the 12 Federal Reserve District home pages use the next link.

Here is the direct link for the latest minutes of the FOMC: http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/default.htm The minutes for each meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee are made available a few days after the next regularly scheduled meeting and subsequently are published in the Federal Reserve Bulletin and in the Board's Annual Report. The summary description of economic and financial conditions contained in these minutes is based solely on the information that was available to the Committee at the time of the meeting.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm A Map of the Federal Reserve Districts. Click on a district to go the home page of that Fed. Res. Bank.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred/ A direct link to the FRB of St. Louis FRED®, Economic Time-Series Data Base. With the U.S. economy increasingly becoming a topic of interest, more and more individuals and organizations are finding that up-to-date financial and economic data are critical to their success. Through the FRED® database, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis provides consumers, students, economists and financial institutions around the world with economic and financial information in an easy-to-use format. FRED® provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.

http://www.frbsf.org/ This link takes you the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Headquarters of the Twelfth District, which includes Utah). Its home page provides links to all of the other Federal Reserve Banks as well as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. You can use those links to fetch the Federal Open Market Committee minutes. You'll find its educational section very informative.

http://www.nber.org The National Bureau of Economic Research is the widely-recognized final arbiter of business cycle dating. The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Our research is conducted by more than 600 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields.

http://economics.miningco.com/money/economics/ Your guide to over 700 sites about money and economics. This is one of the easiest sites to use and you will want to visit it often.

http://www.economy.com/dismal/ Dismal Scientist: Economic Analysis and Data for the World. Claims to be the best "Free Lunch" on the Web. This is a service of Economy.com, a for-fee research outfit.

http://rfe.org/  This link, Resources for Economists on the Internet, is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists 1,194 resources in 68 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described. The host is Bill Goffe, Professor of Economics at SUNY Oswego, formerly at Univ. of So. Mississippi. It is crammed full of every possible kind of link - its title actually understates its significance. If you can't find what you're looking for here, you probably don't need it. Explore this site when you have a few extra hours on your hands.

http://www.economeister.com/ This link takes you to "Market News International" Home Page which then provides links to literally hundreds of data sources, copies of recent headline news about markets and the economy (including employment, prices, exchange rates, etc.). It is a production of Market News Service. Don't miss this one.

http://nytimes.com The New York Times on the Web. Breaking news and what is widely regarded as the best news coverage in the world (although many conservatives disagree with that assessment). You may have to "register" to use this free site - you can choose to get e-mail about breaking news or just request to be left alone.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/mfront.htm I often go to the on-line version of USA TODAY for up to the minute business news, particularly concerning stock and bond quotes. But they also have interesting bylines and stories about the latest economic news releases. (This is also a shortcut to the sports page, weather maps, and other parts of the popular newspaper.)

http://www.awlonline.com/gordon This is the link to the Gordon, Macroeconomics, 9e Web site. This link is provided primarily for students in Alston's Economics 4020 (Intermediate Macroeconomics).

http://faculty-web.at.northwestern.edu/economics/gordon/indexlayers.html This is the link to Robert J. Gordon's personal website. It contains, among other things, copies of his past examinations in both principles of economics and intermediate macroeconomics as well as answers to the questions at the end of each chapter in his textbook (both 8th and 9th editions)  (including some "secret" questions otherwise only available to faculty members who have adopted his textbook for classroom use). This link is provided primarily for students in Alston's Economics 4020 (Intermediate Macroeconomics).

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/calculators/calculator.htm This link takes you to a useful set of "calculators" designed to help you calculate such things as loan payments, how much you should be saving to reach retirement objectives, etc. This is more useful as a personal finance tool than as a specific tool to be used in the macroeconomics class.

http://www.slate.com/ This link takes you to SLATE, an online collection of essays covering many interesting topics, some of which are about economics. I particularly like to read The Dismal Science articles by Paul Krugman (he used to write them once a month, before shifting his contract to the New York Times), but almost every day/week new articles are added by other writers that are of interest. These are written for relatively sophisticated readers but are not above the level of sophomores and juniors at WSU. 

http://www.uncommonknowledge.org  Uncommon Knowledge is a weekly half-hour series of informed discussion on public policy. The series is distributed by American Public Television stations throughout the United States and carried internationally by NPR Worldwide. The site is also linked to the Hoover Institute, a think-tank with a conservative agenda. You may want to browse this site and its archives for interesting discussions of macroeconomic topics. For example, find and view the discussion by Robert Barro and Paul Krugman on "A Crash Course in Dubyanomics"

Paul Krugman has moved from MIT to Princeton. You might want to look at his so-called unofficial website at http://www.pkarchive.org/  His old home page was still under construction (as of 12/11/2001) and can be found at http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/ . Until he moves them over to the new site, you can get access to the entire backlog of Krugman's essays and articles by going to his reallyold home page at: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/ .

You may also want to check out the other links provided on the Weber State University, Department of Economics Home Page at http:/weber.edu/economics/

See the links provided by my daughter Wendy Stock, Ph.D., Economics, Michigan State University, who is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Montana State University. Her home page is at http://www.montana.edu/stock/