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AltAssets.com

AltAssets is an online financial news website focused on the private equity and venture capital industry. Owned and operated as a free service by private equity advisory firm, Almeida Capital, AltAssets was launched in 2001 and is based in London.

Benzinga.com

Benzinga is an innovative news and analysis service that focuses on global markets. The service features content from industry experts and experienced analysts while also covering the news of the day.

Bet2Give

Bet2Give is a real-money prediction market where participants grow their accounts with investments in predictions about the future, and give their winnings away to non-profit organizations of their choice. Those who bet correctly and make a profit can effectively give other people's money to their preferred non-profits. Those who bet wrong and lose still see their money go to worthy causes, but chosen by others.

CBS MoneyWatch.com

CBS MoneyWatch.com, a property of CBS Interactive, is a personal finance website that provides advice on retirement, investing, savings, career and real estate. Launched in April 2009, the site is an extension of CBS Interactive’s Top 10 business site, BNET. In addition to original feature stories and unique daily commentary, the site also offers original videos and daily business and financial news from broadcast powerhouse CBS News.

CNNMoney.com

CNNMoney.com is the world's largest business website. The site is the online home of Fortune, Money, and FSB: Fortune Small Business magazine, and serves as CNN.com's exclusive business site. The site, edited by Chris Peacock, together with the three titles, is part of the Fortune|Money Group, and attracts more than 10.8 million unique visitors per month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings 1H07 data. CNNMoney.com is a division of Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, and is available online or through Internet enabled mobile devices at CNNMoney.com. Poppy Harlow, an online and television journalist is best known for her work on CNNMoney.com's broadband video service.

Economist.com

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843. While The Economist calls itself a "newspaper", each issue appears on glossy paper, like a newsmagazine. In 2007, it reported an average circulation of just over 1.3 million copies per issue, about half of which are sold in North America.

EconPapers

EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.

EconTalk

EconTalk is a weekly podcast hosted by professor Russell Roberts at George Mason University. The talk consists of Roberts interviewing a guest—often a professional economist--while discussing topics in economics. Each episode lasts roughly an hour, but it varies widely. The podcast is notable for its clear and thoughtful conversations about economics, and for its ability to bring the economic way of thinking to a vast range of subjects.

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites. Its primary rival is New York City-based The Wall Street Journal.

GovBenefits.gov

GovBenefits.gov was launched by the U.S. Department of Labor in April 2002, as a Web site designed to provide American citizens with access to government benefit eligibility information. GovBenefits.gov helps citizens determine their potential eligibility for more than 1,000 government-funded benefit and assistance programs. Visitors can complete an on-line questionnaire, and GovBenefits.gov matches benefit programs with their needs and provides information on how to apply.

HedgeStreet

HedgeStreet is the first Internet-based government regulated (CFTC) event futures/derivatives exchange. The company operates the HedgeStreet Exchange, which launched in October 2004 and provides traders with a place where they can hedge against or speculate on economic events and price movements. The reasoning behind the creation of HedgeStreet was that with the rise of individual private investment in stocks, there might be a similar appetite for individuals to invest in derivatives. This focus on small investors created sufficient confusion that John Nafeh, founder of HedgeStreet, created the term "hedgelet" to help explain the company's business model.

HousePriceCrash

HousePriceCrash is a website about the housing bubble in the British property market. Its daily news blog was ranked by The Times as one of the top 25 property blogs and one of the top 50 business blogs. The Times has described the website as "where you can check whether your home is about to become worthless" and was also made their website of the week. It has a reputation for being very pessimistic on the economy, with Richard Simpson in the Guardian saying that it gives him the "urge to build a bunker and start stockpiling baked beans", and also a reputation for "a sense of the resentment and exclusion felt by those who cannot afford to buy."

Library of Economics and Liberty

The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) is a free online library of economics books and articles and is sponsored by Liberty Fund, a non-profit organization. It supplies educational resources of economic thought and has been online since February 1999.

Marginal Revolution (blog)

Marginal Revolution is a blog focused on economics run by economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. The blog's slogan is "Small steps toward a much better world." The site is updated daily and focuses on current events and newly released reports or books. The "small steps" advocated by the slogan are usually free-market-based policies, ranging from new forms of property rights to following the results of behavioral economics studies. As of July 2005, Marginal Revolution had a BlogPulse rank of 88, the highest of any economics blog.

MoneySavingExpert.com

MoneySavingExpert.com is a British consumer finance information and discussion website founded and owned by financial journalist Martin Lewis in February 2003 with the aim of providing information and journalistic articles enabling people to save money.

National Bureau of Economic Research

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization dedicated to studying the science and empirics of economics, especially the American economy. The NBER describes itself as "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts with branch offices in Palo Alto, California, and New York City.

Resources For Economists

American Economic Association-sponsored guide to 2,000+ Internet resources from "Data" to "Neat Stuff," updated quarterly.

The Oil Drum

The Oil Drum is a web-based think tank and community devoted to the discussion of energy issues and their impact on society. The Oil Drum is published by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a Colorado non-profit corporation. The site is a resource for information on many energy and sustainability topics, including peak oil, and related concepts such as oil megaprojects, Hubbert Linearization, and the Export Land Model.

People's Economics

The People's Economics is an English-language independently published online Economic and Political magazine founded in April 2009 by publisher Sunil Reddy Mayreddy for OpenLRN - Open Learning Resources Network.

Prosper Loans Marketplace, Inc.

Prosper Loans Marketplace, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based company in the emerging peer-to-peer lending industry. The company operates Prosper.com, an online auction website where individuals can buy loans and request to borrow money. Borrowers set the maximum interest rate they wish to pay, and loan buyers, called "lenders," bid on specific loans by committing a portion of the principal and setting the minimum interest rate they wish to receive on a particular loan. Prosper manages the reverse dutch auction, assembling bids with the lowest interest rates in order to fund the loan.

Towergate Partnership

Towergate Partnership is an independent insurance organisation in Europe launced in 1997. Towergate operate through two divisions: Towergate Risk Solutions and Towergate Underwriting. These work in partnership with insurers, intermediaries and individual and corporate customers.

Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions. As of 2007, it has a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million, with approximately 931,000 paying online subscribers. It was the largest-circulation newspaper in the United States until November 2003, when it was surpassed by USA Today. Its main rival is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions.

World Bank Group

The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that makes leveraged loans, generally to poor countries. The Bank came into formal existence on 27 December 1945 following international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements, which emerged from the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1–22 July 1944). It also provided the foundation of the Osiander-Committee in 1951, responsible for the preparation and evaluation of the World Development Report. Commencing operations on 25 June 1946, it approved its first loan on 9 May 1947 ($250M to France for postwar reconstruction, in real terms the largest loan issued by the Bank to date).

World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international trade. The World Trade Organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalising trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants' adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments.