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Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Free Trade Area of the Americas (Thursday, 8/1/02)
The FTAA would amount to an extension of NAFTA by integrating all of the economies in the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade zone, and the movement to create it is still very much alive, as well as opposition to it. The Free Trade Area of the Americas site contains the draft agreement that resulted from a summit meeting in the mid-1990s as well as information about the process.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ABCs of Figuring Interest (Friday, 8/2/02)
What does it cost to rent somebody else's money? There are many ways of calculating interest, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago explains several of the most common in its ABCs of Figuring Interest.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Learn 2 Read the US Stock Market Page (Saturday, 8/3/02)
This may be a pretty good time to do this. Here's a chance to achieve stock market page literacy. Learn 2 Read the US Stock Market Page is a seven-step tutorial.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FinCareer (Sunday, 8/4/02)
FinCareer is an Internet publication for people who want to get the best out of a career in finance.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: UK Benchmarking Index (Tuesday, 8/6/02)
The UK Benchmarking Index is a national benchmarking service for small to medium enterprises from the UK's Department of Trade and Industry.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Rapid Response (Wednesday, 8/7/02)
Rapid Response is sort of an economic "911" for developing countries from the World Bank. It offers quick advice for a fee plus a valuable collection of free resources in the site's Knowledge Resources section.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: World Bank Experts (Thursday, 8/8/02)
World Bank Experts is like a speakers bureau for the press. It helps journalists find just the right expert for media comment on the issues of the day.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Post 200 (Friday, 8/9/02)
The Post 200 is the latest list of what the Washington Post regards as the top 200 companies based in the Washington, D. C. area.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Accounting Terminology Guide (Saturday, 8/10/02)
It may be difficult to tell what accountants have been doing lately, but, at least, it might be helpful to know what they're saying. Here's an Accounting Terminology Guide from the New York State Society of CPAs.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Eliminating World Poverty (Sunday, 8/11/02)
Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor is a White Paper on International Development published by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the British Secretary of State.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Statistical Abstract of the United States (Monday, 8/12/02)
The U.S. Bureau of the Census calls it "Uncle Sam's reference shelf." It's the Statistical Abstract of the United States, emphasizing social and economic conditions in the United States, but it also includes other data, domestic and international.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Encyclopedia of Finance (Tuesday, 8/13/02)
The Encyclopedia of Finance defines terms and asks basic questions having to do with stocks, security analysis, debt securities, retirement planning, and more, and comes from Ameritrade.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: FirmBuilder (Wednesday, 8/14/02)
FirmBuilder provides tools and information for businesses that want to engage in outsourcing.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SmallBusiness.com (Thursday, 8/15/02)
SmallBusiness.com applies knowledge management systems developed for large business to the needs of those operating or working in service of small business. It is a "knowledge sharing community."
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Whyville (Friday, 8/16/02)
During the 21st century, girls who automatically rule out all scientific or technical career possibilities simply because they're female will be limiting their futures unnecessarily and making it more likely that they will join previous generations of women in dead-end, low-pay occupations. Young Americans in general are displaying relatively little interest in math and science, in part, perhaps, because of a misunderstanding of what science really is. Girls in particular seem to go out of their way in order to avoid any exposure to science. However, that might be largely because of the way it has been presented. Now, there may be a glimmer of hope. Whyville is a web site that has become very popular with girls, and a woman astronomer at the California Institute of Technology explains some of the possible reasons in the Christian Science Monitor.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: National Center for Charitable Statistics (Saturday, 8/17/02)
The National Center for Charitable Statistics is the national repository of data on America's nonprofit sector. It is a creation of the Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Economics of Korean Unification (Sunday, 8/18/02)
What would be the economic implications of bringing together one of the most prosperous and successful societies with one of the economically most catastrophic into a single country? The contrast on the Korean peninsula could hardly be greater, but eventual unification seems to be a goal. Marcus Noland, Sherman Robinson, and Li-Gang Liu examine the Economics of Korean Unification in their paper for the Institute for International Economics.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Walter P. Reuther Library (Monday, 8/19/02)
The Walter P. Reuther Library is located at Wayne State University in Detroit and is named after the famed president of the United Auto Workers.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Business Link (Tuesday, 8/120/02)
Business Link offers help in starting or running a business and comes from the Small Business Service, a government agency in the United Kingdom.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: How Much Information? (Wednesday, 8/21/02)
How much information is too much? Do you feel overloaded? Scholars at the University of California at Berkeley have been attempting to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. Incidentally, speaking of information, their report is about 200 pages long.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Silicon Salley (Thursday, 8/22/02)
If you're a woman and interested in nearly anything having to do with computers, Silicon Salley may be for you.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Investor Building Blocks (Friday, 8/23/02)
Investor Building Blocks is an investment primer from Investopedia.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Financial Engines (Saturday, 8/24/02)
Financial Engines offers investment advice and was founded by Bill Sharpe, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. He was a guest on PBS' "Wall Street Week with Fortune" last night.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Independent Means (Sunday, 8/25/02)
Independent Means offers resources to help in the raising of financially savvy kids.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Working Women Working Together (Monday, 8/26/02)
While there has been some progress narrowing the gender wage gap during recent years, American women who work outside the home still earn approximately three-quarters of what men earn. A variety of factors may contribute to this gap, in addition to lingering institutional discrimination, as claimed by many commentators. Here's the Working Women Working Together site from the AFL-CIO.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Pilot Environmental Sustainability Index (Tuesday, 8/27/02)
Which countries are growing their economies in an environmentally sustainable way? A couple of years ago, the World Economic Forum conducted a pilot study in an effort to develop an Environmental Sustainability Index. Their report is accessible on the web.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Corporate Library (Wednesday, 8/28/02)
The Corporate Library offers resources for those wanting to study and think critically about the modern global corporation.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: The Russian Economy (Thursday, 8/29/02)
Michael Bernstam and Alvin Rabushka are fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The Russian Economy features two of their books plus many articles and commentaries.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (Friday, 8/230/02)
The Encyclopedia of Law and Economics comes from scholars at the University of Ghent in Belgium, but it is international in scope. It's a huge resource for those interested in economic and legal issues throughout the world.
Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Historical Statistics on Banking (Saturday, 8/31/02)
For those who want to track the American banking industry, here are historical statistics beginning in 1934 from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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