Scrawled Shortcuts through the Research Maze
Credit/Money News: Beyond the Wall Street Journal
Times Topics: The Credit Crisis[ http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/credit-crisis/|http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/credit-crisis/]
Marketplace from American Public Radio
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/
Wall Street Words
Short sale? Swaption? Leveraged? Put-call ratio? Unbundling? Definitions:
REF 332.603 S425w
TED spread
Want to know how deep the credit crisis is? The TED spread indicates the difference in the interest rates banks charge each other (Eurodollar), compared to the rate on short term U.S. Treasury bills. The higher the spread, the bigger the anxiety. From Bloomberg.com.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=.TEDSP%3AIND
EconomicIndicators.gov
Do the numbers, as they say on Marketplace. The government collects and generates all kinds of statistics on the economy---see the latest ones:
http://www.economicindicators.gov/
Economic Indicators at a Glance:
http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm
The Secrets of Economic Indicators
Now you have the current GDP, but what does it mean? Look here to find out:
REF 338.54 B348s
Handbook of Financial Instruments
What, exactly, is a Mortgage-Backed Security? Find out here:
REF 332.632 H236h
RegionalBusiness News
What’s going on around here? Regional Business News includes 75 local business news sources; use it along with Business Source Premiere to find articles about the business economy.
On the Databases by Subject list under Business Society and Culture.