Basic information regarding the class:
Section 3011 - Time MW3,F34
(friday we may meet in either MI213 or SA101)
Place: MI213, Lab SA101
Office: Nimitz 078
Office number: 293-6888
Office Hours: Monday
and Wednesday 5th and 6th periods, Tuesday 9th period, and by appointment
Useful link for testing graphical understanding is thinkeconomics. Focus on the last two parts - AD/AS (for later chapters on economic fluctuations) and Policy Tools (for help on Fiscal and Monetary Policy changes).
1.Economicsearch
is a terrific place to start searching for economic information.
It includes
links to data sources, private institutions, and government agencies.
2.Economic Statistics
Briefing Room is a friendly and fun interface providing the latest
information on a wide variety of economic data, presented in both charts
and tables.
3.The Economic
Report of the President is a searchable index containing all the reports
and
data published annually by the Council of Economic Advisors each January.
4.Professor John
A. Shaw has produced an up-to-date and attractive presentation of U.S.
and international economic data.
5.News releases from the Bureau
of Labor Statistics discuss and report recent data on labor
markets and consumer and producer price indexes, among other data. A broader
set of
data is available in searchable form from the BLS
Data Bank .
6.The Bureau of Economic Analysis
home page contains press releases and recent data on
Gross Domestic Product, Personal Income, and U.S. International Transactions,
among
other data series.
7.U.S. Business
Cycle Indicators contains a lot of common data series, along with graphs
of
the series.
8.The National Bureau of Economic Research
page contains some historical data (including
the NBER's official business cycle dates) and a summary of some recent
research.
9.Federal Reserve Board Statistical Releases include recent data on interest
rates, monetary
and reserves aggregates, exchange rates, industrial production, capacity
utilization, and
commercial banking. Federal
Open Market Committee (FOMC)minutes, including policy
directives, are also available.
10.A
broad set of recent and historical macro data is available from the St.
Louis Fed's
Federal
Reserve Economic Data (FRED).
11.Purposes
and Functions of the Federal Reserve System is a book-length overview
of the
Federal Reserve System, including its roles in monetary policy, financial
supervision and
regulation, and consumer affairs.
12.You
can use this link to connect to any of the 12
Regional Federal Reserve Banks.
13.The
Department
of the Treasury reports to the penny the public debt of the United
States,
along with the interest cost of the debt and historical debt series back
to 1791.
14.The
National
Budget Simulator is a nifty site where you can run various policy experiments
to check their effects on the Federal deficit.
15.The
U.S.
Census Bureau publishes social, demographic, and economic information.
16.You
can obtain free on-line use of The New
York Times and use their search engine to find
recent articles published by The Times.
17.The
Washington Post is also available free on line.
18.The
Economist is probably the best weekly news magazine for economic analysis.
19.
An interactive tutorial Journal
of Economic Education.
20.
International data are available linked from the Journal
of Economic Education.
21.
Infoplease.com