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• Economic Research and Statistics
• Newspapers
• Useful State Sites
• Investment Research
• Blogs

Economic Research and Statistics

http://www.bea.doc.gov/
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce. Keeper of U.S. economic statistics. Apples-to-apples state level data on personal income, gross state product, etc.

http://www.bls.gov/
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. State-level data on
employment (total and by sector), unemployment. Regional information on the Consumer Price Index

http://www.census.gov/
Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. All things to do with
population and other demographic topics.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/index.html
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Deep well of economic statistics.

http://www.frbsf.org/
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Economic data and perspective on Western states.

http://www.conerlyconsulting.com/
Perspective from one of the Pacific Northwest’s best-known regional
economists

http://www.economagic.com/
200,000 data files, with charts and spreadsheets.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/
Economic Report of the President

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/
Foreign-trade stats from the Census Bureau.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
CIA world fact book. Country-by-country perspective on the world economy.

http://www.ofheo.gov/
They keep an eye on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – and compile one of the most useful series on house prices.

http://www.fdic.gov/quicklinks/analysts.html
Banking and economic statistics from the folks who insure your bank deposits.

http://www.philadelphiafed.org/econ/liv/index.html
Semiannual survey of economists by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/vsus/vsus.htm
Vital statistics for the U.S.

http://www.freddiemac.com/finance/cmhpi/#new
Freddie Mac’s conventional home-price index

http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
White House briefing room for economic statistics

http://www.eia.doe.gov
Official energy statistics from Uncle Sam

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Newspapers

http://newslink.org/
Ultimate one-stop shopping for for newspaper junkies.

http://newslink.org/topstate.html
Especially useful at newslink: most-linked to newspaper sites by state

http://online.wsj.com/home/us
Wall Street Journal on-line. Well-worth the modest subscription fee.

http://www.nytimes.com/
New York Times on line. Lots of free content (with registration). Fee for full capabilities.

http://economist.com/
The essential news weekly for a citizen of the world.

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Useful State Sites

http://www.state.ak.us/
Portal to Alaska state government.

http://www.revenue.state.ak.us/
Where to find Alaska’s semiannual revenue forecast

http://access.wa.gov/
The Evergreen State’s portal

http://www.erfc.wa.gov/
Washington’s revenue forecast and other economic background

http://www.accessidaho.org/
Idaho’s portal

http://dfm.idaho.gov/
Look here for Idaho’s revenue forecast and other economic data and analysis

http://www.oregon.gov/
Oregon’s portal

http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OEA/index.shtml
Look here for Oregn’s revenue forecast and economic analysis

http://www.mt.gov/
Montana’s portal

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Investment Research

http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp
I wish Windows were as well thought-out as Microsoft’s investment portal. The porfolio manager simply can’t be beat.

http://finance.yahoo.com/
What’s not to like?

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/
Great charts on stocks; great for industry perspective and comparison.

http://www.secinfo.com/
Search SEC filings. Get notification of new filings.

http://www.smartmoney.com/
Terrific tools for investors.

http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
SEC web site. Free search for SEC filings.

http://www.investorguide.com/

http://www.barra.com/research/SummaryReturns.aspx
S&P/Barra indices on stock-market returns.

http://www.russell.com/us/indexes/us/default.asp
Russell stock-market indicies

http://www.wilshire.com/Indexes/
Wilshire market indices

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Blogs

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/
Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture, my first stop almost every day

http://nakedshorts.typepad.com/
Greg Newton’s commentary on alternative investments, investing in general and other matters.

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