Are you looking for business and economic news? The Dismal Scientist provides all the latest current events regarding economics and business environments.

A browsable and searchable archive of economics-related questions addressed to Dr. Econ along with the answers. The archive covers the years from 1998 to 2013.

Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.

This is an invaluable site from Marietta College which consists of over 130 non-computerized classroom games for economics. Would be great to use in a high school economics class. Games relate to a vast amount of economic concepts....

This investigation helps students clarify economic performance measures. These include: percentage changes in the Gross Domestic Product or the Consumer Price Index, how the labor force is measured, the meaning of employment and...

This site has a speech given by Alan Greenspan December 5, 2000. It discusses the economic changes the United States had undergone in the 1990s. The reading is sophisticated, but some of the information is written to be accessible to...

Use this collection of economic education lessons for K-12 teachers and students to improve financial literacy. One interesting feature is "This Day In Economic History," a calendar which identifies an interesting event for each day,...

This unit tracks the development of economics through time, highlighting what early societies did to provide for themselves, how they established trade systems and political systems of taxed goods.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Contrast expansionary monetary policy and contractionary monetary policy, explain how monetary policy impacts interest rates and aggregate demand, evaluate Federal Reserve...

Spanning three centuries of history, from the dawn of the industrial age to modern times, three diverse thinkers developed their own landmark theories on commerce, labor, and the global economy. The three economists profiled in this...

This learning module examines how money travels around the world between more developed and less developed nations, and the various forms it takes. Includes slideshows, student tasks, videos, maps, charts, and case studies, including one...

This site provides a link to the complete text of Adam Smith's nonfiction work The Wealth of Nations. It is one of the world's first collected descriptions of what builds nations' wealth and is today a fundamental work in classical...

In this collection of lesson activities, students will complete an "Econ Explorers Journal" to help them learn how economics is involved in their neighborhood, the books they read, in earning a living, at their banks, in their homes, and...

Part II of document proposes an alternative to controlling the deficit.

A comprehensive look at the economic growth in the U.S. in the 1920s. Provides statistical information on national product, income and prices, population and labor, agriculture, productivity, coal and petroleum, energy and...

This article looks at evidence that economies in sub-Saharan Africa are doing well, and some of the reasons things are not going as well as they may seem to be. Examines why economies are improving, and the serious, ongoing challenges....

This section of a chapter on "The Antebellum South" explains the labor-intensive processes of cotton production and describes the importance of cotton to the Atlantic and American antebellum economy.

Gapminder collects hundreds of statistics related to global economic, health, and social development and analyzes the relationships between them across different countries and time (a few indicators go back to 1800).

A learning module on choices people make with their money. It includes several supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Students will learn how families get...

Learn about the different types of expenses that the U.S. budget must pay for and try your hand at balancing the federal budget.

Examines why the Texas economy is healthy and the factors that make it difficult and undesirable for other states to try to replicate its model. (Published: April 4, by 2012)

This article discusses how plants and microorganisms, until recently, have mostly controlled how much carbon dioxide is released into an ecosystem, and explains how this process works. Humans' burning of fossil fuels has upset the...

The analysis on economic policy has some excellent explanations about the Home Country in regard to global business.

The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 may have been one factor in bringing on the 2008 economic recession in the United States. It allowed investment banking and commercial banking to operate within the same financial institution,...