The following websites are listed here for students, faculty and friends. Most of them are good sources for information about the economy, society and culture. Some will provide information about the Business and Economics Department at GMC.
http://www.fmcenter.org/ The website of the Financial Markets Center. Listed by the National Journal as one of the three best websites on banking and finance. Jane D'Arista, the Program Director of FMC, visited GMC in November 2000. For those attending the Boston reception with the GMC alums in the financial sector, you might read Jane's article in the Nov. 2002 issue. Jane revisited Green Mountain on March 21, 2008 to present on a talk on how the global structure of capital markets rigs the flow of international funds against developing countries. She was honored in May of 2008 by economists from around the world who came to Amherst, MA to give presentations at a conference sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute analyzing the contribution of her work to a deeper understanding of international financial institutions.
http://www.bis.org/ The Bank for International Settlements website. Where the world's central bankers go to talk to each other.
www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/ Roy Davies is a science librarian at England's University at Exeter who has compiled a bibliography of literature in which banking and finance are central components of the plot. From Chaucer and Zola to Upton Sinclair and Paul Erdman.
http://rfe.org/ Resources for Economists on the Internet. An invaluable site, sponsored by the American Economics Association, that collects links to the important websites for news, journals, government databases et al.
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/ An eclectic collection of economic papers, data, humor and the link to the full text list of journals on JSTOR.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/download.html The Economic Report of the President. The annual explanation of the condition of the U.S. economy and the justification of the government's economic policy prescriptions. The tables at the end of the report are where the real nuggets are to be found.
http://www.yk.psu.edu/~jmj3/contents.htm O.K., in order to qualify as a really cool site, I feel compelled to include the webpage of an old friend of mine. If you want an incredibly iconoclastic look at music (jazz, rock, hip hop et al), literature and generally edgy cultural notions, I would recommend Mike Jarrett's hilarious and irreverent jumble of themes -- be prepared to be transported into a labyrinth of links. Mike is nothing if not complicated.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/The Environment News Service. Keep posted on the latest outrage from Monsanto or your friendly government agency.
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182 The Cost of War