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Timely information is vital in our field, and keeping up-to-date on financial news, trends, analysis, and research will help you help your customers, and ensure that they value you as a resource. The web links below are some of Mark's favorites. They're almost all maintained by the federal government. Most of them have notification and/or RSS services, so you can sign up to receive regular emailings.
 
Econstats
  • econstats.com
    • A massive online spreadsheet that contains business, financial, and macroeconomic statistics from the United States and around the world.
     
    United States Department of the Treasury
  • ustreas.gov
    • The "Resource Center" contains myriad policy documents, data, and charts.
     
    National Bureau of Economic Research
  • nber.org
    • Excellent research summaries and an RSS service that will notify you when words that you pick appear in the text of a new NBER working paper.
     
    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
  • federalreserve.gov/econresdata
    • Data releases and official reports and publications from the Federal Reserve. Subscribe to RSS feeds by following the link along the top.
     
    Census Bureau's 2012 Statistical Compendium
  • census.gov/compendia/statab/
    • A user-friendly guide to the Census's Bureau's unrivalled data.
     
    Government Printing Office - Monthly Economic Indicators
  • gpo.gov/fdsys
    • Monthly reports of key economic indicators.
     
    Burea of Economic Analysis
  • bea.gov
    • National accounts and other macroeconomic data. Interactive data can be accessed from the top bar.
     
    Economic Report of the President
  • whitehouse.gov
    • Comprehensive economic reports, prepared annually by the White House.
     
    The Conference Board
  • conference-board.org/data/
    • A non-government resource for economic reports, including regular consumer confidence surveys.
     
    The University of Michigan Survey of Consumers
  • sca.isr.umich.edu/
    • An alternative source of consumer surveys.
     
    The CIA World Factbook
  • cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
    • Published by the CIA, this online alamanac provides demographic, economic, and social information about every country and political entity in the world. 
     
    The Wharton School of Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
    • (The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the world’s oldest collegiate business school. Since the 1990s, the popular press has repeatedly ranked Wharton as one of the top institutions for business education in the world.)
     
    Banks of the Federal Reserve System
    Here you’ll find links to the websites of all twelve Federal Reserve Banks. Consider visiting the Cleveland FRB for its excellent reports and publications, available as RSS feeds, and the St. Louis FRB for its incredible collection of economic data organized into 72,000 time series.
    Boston
  • bos.frb.org
    • New York
  • newyorkfed.org
    • Philadelphia
  • philadelphiafed.org
    • Cleveland
  • clevelandfed.org
    • Richmond
  • richmondfed.org
    • Atlanta
  • frbatlanta.org
    • Chicago
  • chicagofed.org
    • St. Louis
  • research.stlouisfed.org/fred2
    • Minneapolis
  • minneapolisfed.org
    • Kansas City
  • kansascityfed.org
    • Dallas
  • dallasfed.org
    • San Francisco
  • frbsf.org
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    3D printed cells

     

    Popular Science
    Scientists 3-D Print With Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    3D printed cells

     

    Daily Mail
    3D Printing - The Secret Behind James Bond's Aston Martin DB5

    3D printed cells

     

    Huffington Post
    This Ear Was Made With A 3D Printer And It Hears Better Than Your Ears

    3D printed cells

     

    The New York Times
    Tiny Chiplets: A New Level of Micro Manufacturing
     
    Printing a Human Kidney
    Huffington Post - Printing a Human Kidney
    3D Printed Guns
    PBS - Will 3D Printing Change the World?
    Articles
     
    Websites and Blogs
  • 3ders.org
    • A resource about developments in DIY 3D printing
  • blog.stratasys.com
    • News from the 3D printing industry
  • 3dprinter.net
    • 3D printing news and trends
     
     
    Mark Recommends...
    • Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards  view at amazon
    • A Dangerous Fortune, by Ken Follett  view at amazon
    • The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by by G. Edward Griffin  view at amazon
    • Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country, by William Greider  view at amazon
    • Bear-Trap: The Fall of Bear Stearns and the Panic of 2008, by Bill Bamber  view at amazon
    • The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm, by Robert F. Bruner  view at amazon