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Newpaper Subscriptions for CC

CC Student Life has arranged with the New York Times
for free daily online accounts (Academic Pass).

 

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Business News

ft

economist

wsj

 

Select Blogs & Podcasts

There are lots of blogs and podcasts. Here are a few.

  1. The Big Picture: Barry Ritholtz, Wall St. money manager, consistently pokes fact-based holes in received wisdom and popular opinion.
  2. FT Alphaville: view from Europe; outsider perspective on the U.S. and insider sources for news and perspective about Europe
  3. Zero Hedge: international economics; these folks doubt everything—in a good way
  4. Naked Capitalism: Views things more from the Keynes side, but facts and not ideology are the driving force
  5. Mish’s Global Economic Analysis: Mish Shedlock, a registered investment advisor, is as good as it gets when it comes to finding the key facts, stories or stats in far distant lands
  6. Econbrowser: Analysis of Current Economic Conditions and Policies

Podcasts:

  1. NPR’s Planet Money : for those who know a lot about economics and those who know nothing at all about it
  2. EconTalk -hosted by Professor Russ Roberts at George Mason U., who goes deep into a top with interesting hour-long conversations on a particular topic.