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The System 

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
This is the official U.S. Government Federal Reserve site, which contains the bank regulations, consumer information, reports to Congress, and press releases.

The Structure of the Federal Reserve System
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/frseries/frseri3.htm
This site covers the structure of the Federal Reserve System and includes the organization of the banks, the monetary policy role, the supervision and regulation, government service and depository institution service.

  History of the Federal Judiciary
http://air.fjc.gov/history/index_frm.html
This site covers the judges of the US, the landmark judicial legislation, and other topics in judicial history.

The Federal Reserve System Online
http://www.federalreserveonline.org/
This site has a map of the Federal Reserve System, showing what area of the US each of the eleven Federal Reserve Banks cover.  There are links to all eleven banks and the Board of Governors.  The web pages for each bank in the system contain a great deal of information.  Below are some highlights but one should check each site for more information.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
http://www.frbsf.org/
This site has a wealth of information including a section on economic education: curriculum material, publications and resources and other links for economic teachers.

U.S. Monetary Policy: An Introduction
http://www.frbsf.org/publications/federalreserve/monetary/index.html
This site part of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, provides an introduction to U.S. monetary policy as it is currently conducted by answering a series of questions:  How is the Fed structured to make monetary policy decisions? What are the Fed's goals?  What tools does it use to implement its policies? How does monetary policy affect the U.S. economy? How does the Fed formulate strategies to reach its goals?  There is also a Glossary and suggested reading.

FRED--Federal Reserve Economic Data
http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/
FRED, provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, is an historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.

Fundamental Facts about U.S. Money
http://www.frbatlanta.org/publica/brochure/fundfac/money.htm
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta produces a variety of publications and other materials dealing with economic and financial topics. The Fundamentals Facts about U.S. Money includes information on types of paper money, currency features, types of coins, circulation of money and spotting counterfeit currency.  At the bottom of the page is a hyperlink back to all of the publications the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta produces.  From the homepage this site can be found under publications.

Teaching Economics: Some Tools for Educators
http://www.phil.frb.org/education/index.html
This site from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia provides learning resources for economic instructions including Hats the Federal Reserve Wears and Consumer Credit information.

Monetary Policy Objectives
http://minneapolisfed.org/info/policy/mpo.cfm
This site, part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, contains the Federal Reserve's Semiannual reports on Monetary Policy.  There are also links to testimony and interviews and speeches of the FRB officials.

Federal Reserve History
http://minneapolisfed.org/info/sys/history/index.cfm
This site, part of Federal Reserve of Minneapolis, answers the questions: what inspired the formation of the Federal Reserve System, how was the system build, how were the districts created and how has the system evolved to the present day.

Teacher Resources

Federal Reserve Financial Services
http://www.frbservices.org/
This web site provides information about the Federal Reserve System's financial services and products currently offered to all financial institutions in the US.

WebEc--WWW Resources in Economics
http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/
This subject guide is on resources on the Internet in Economics.  WebEc lists and describes material that could be of interest to mainly academic economists. Lauri Saarinen, from the Helsinki School of Economics, University of Helsinki, compiles the site.  The main page has an index of topics and a links to the search page and a list of economic journals.

InvestorWords
http://www.investorwords.com/b1.htm
This is a dictionary of investor's words.

EcEdWeb
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/
The mission of EcEdWeb, the Economic Education Website, is to "provide support for economic education in all forms and at all levels".  The site, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha Center for Economic Education is a great resource for economic teachers trying to teach the concepts of money and banking.  There is a whole section on economic resources for K-12 teachers.

Pennsylvania Partnership for Economic Education  currently unavailable
http://www.ppee.org/
The mission of the Pennsylvania Partnership for Economic Education is to "promote economic education and to prepare students to compete and succeed in the global economy".  The site is indexed and can be searched.  Topics include virtual economics and economic standards.  This is another teacher resource site.

Online magazines

BusinessWeek Online
http://www.businessweek.com/
Business Week, published by the McGraw Hill Companies, has an online site that contains the full text of articles from the print magazine. Also included are a selected browsable archive back to late 1995 and current business news.

The Economist
http://www.economist.com/
The online edition of The Economist, published in England, offers analysis and opinion on the main business and political events of the week.

The Economist Special Collections: Economics Articles
http://www.economist.com/library/focus/display.cfm?id=348918
Here one can find the Economist's archive of selected articles about business, economics, and finance date from 1997 until the present. These full-text articles cover a wide range of popular issues from the future of business on the Internet to Japan's economy. Each selection includes charts, graphs, and graphics.

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