My undergraduate degree in international development involved my taking a few advanced economics courses, and in my graduate studies I also focused partly on economic development. The scholars who trained me in areas related to economics include Neva Lynn Seidman Makgetla, Rafat Fazeli, Martha Ozawa, Frederic Raines, and Michael Sherraden. Here is a list of some of the internet web resources I trust most and use most often to follow economic issues. I'll begin with...

my top ten resources:

1. Dean Baker at the Center for Economic Policy and Research is one of my favorites.
2. I listen to the Planet Money podcasts (twice each week) and visit their blog regularly.
3. I no longer subscribe to The Economist, but I check their web pages every couple weeks.
4. I pay attention to the economic situation in Taiwan and China, and one of my favorite sources for information about the Chinese Economy is the China Financial Markets blog by Michael Pettis.
5. One of my favorite economists is James K. Galbraith (I admired his father as well), and I like how he shares his scholarly and service work on his home page.
6. I am generally a supporter of the organized labor movement, and I do check in on the AFL-CIO blog now and then.
7. I trust the ProPublica journalism website as a source for good investigative reporting, and you can search their site for business and economics issues.
8. The White House website has information about what the executive branch of our national government is doing about economic issues.
9. I like the naked capitalism blog, and I read it fairly regularly.
10. I think that the PIMCO blog puts out some fairly good information about the economy for their investors.

Other good resources and papers:

• The Bank for International Settlements issues some worthwhile reports and working papers, and holds some conferences.
• I admire the Community-Wealth organization and the people like Gar Alperovitz who have helped establish it.
• The Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter.
• Rick Schaut's 1995 article "Toward a Baha'i Economic Model."
• Bryan Graham's 1997 review of the secondary literature on the Baha'i Faith and economics.
• I liked this 2008 article by Jacki Zehner on the credit default swaps.
• The Financial Times provides coverage of economic issues.
• The Guardian also provides significant business and economics coverage from a perspective I tend to agree with more often than I do the views found in the Financial Times or The Economist.
• I don't read the Wall Street Journal much, but I list it here since it is an important source of news on the economy.
• The Freakonomics blog can be fun.
• Another fun blog is Kevin A. Carson's Mutualist Blog. It ran up to 2016, but the old articles are worth examining.
• The Economic Policy Institute.
• The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
• The Worldwatch blog is pretty good.
• The U.S. Department of Labor.
• The Tax Policy Center.
• The Tax Foundation.
• The European Union's Eurostat website.

Yet more resources, with a focus on economic development and housing:

1. The Big Picture has a perspective on macroeconomic conditions.
2. The RGE Monitor has some free information.
3. One of a few of the very conservative blogs that argue against all sorts of public spending is the Adam Smith blog.
4. Until he died in 2014, Gary Becker's blog was a good source of opinion and analysis from this creative intellectual on the conservative side of economics.
5. And one more conservative economics blog is winterspeak.
6. Paul Krugman also has a blog at the New York Times, called Conscience of a Liberal.
7. Brad DeLong maintains a good liberal economics blog at "Equitablog".
8. The Talking Points Memo by Joshua Micah Marshall is pretty popular among liberal and radical web policy enthusiasts, but it's not really a blog limits itself to policy and economics.
9. Clawback, a blog of Good Jobs First offers another radical perspective.
10. William Easterly's Aid Watch blog ran from 2009 into 2011, and you can read the old posts, some of which are quite interesting.
11. The Illinois Housing Development Authority has good information about housing.
12. One activist group for housing is the Housing Action Illinois.
13. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was once a force in the struggle to provide dignity to the poor and ensure quality housing was available and affordable, but now it has died, and many smaller groups have sprung up to replace it.
14. Nationally, the National Alliance to End Homelessness is well-known.
15. So is the National Coalition for the Homeless.
16. The National Community Development Association is worth investigating.
17. Check out the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
18. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development website for users.
19. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development main page.

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