Economics

This is an excellent place to start if you are looking for newspaper articles. Provides full-text access (and indexing and abstracts) for 350 international and U.S. newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Star Tribune.

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The Fed site contains pages on various topics and an array of useful research and data. They've also got a collection of free working papers to stimulate discussion. Each separate Fed branch has its own focus and website. Find a map and links to them here.

The Congressional Research Service is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress. Operating within the Library of Congress, it works primarily and directly for members of Congress and their committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis. CRS publishes thousands of papers on just about any topic that congressional members are likely have to consider for legislation.

The European Central Bank is the prime component of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks as well as one of seven institutions of the European Union. It is one of the world's most important central banks and publishes numerous books, journals, and research papers.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, the IMF is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution consisting of 190 countries.

NBER is a private, non-profit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community."

The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. It has published thousands of papers on all aspects of global economics.