The Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board: Structural Changes in the Economy and Financial Markets
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...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Inflation Data: Is the Economy Healthy? (Grades 9 12)
This lesson asks students to identify sources for macroeconomic data, interpret data, describe the present state of the economy using current data, and use data to predict the state of the economy one year from now.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Economic & Political Freedom (Grades 9 12)
For this lesson, students analyze the concepts of economic freedom and political freedom, identify ways to measure them and explore the relation between measures of well-being and between measures of freedom.
Council for Economic Education
Econedlink: Economic Forecasting: Web Quest (9 12)
How do economists make their forecasts about the United States economy? This lesson uses the Internet to retrieve up-to-date key economic statistics which will provide valuable hints about the state of the future economy.
Robert Schenk, PhD
Cyber Economics: Measuring the Economy: An Overview
How the United States government measures the three most commonly used concepts based on aggregated markets: the unemployment rate, the rate of inflation, and Gross Domestic Product. Content explains the purpose of each measurement, how...