Economics/politics resources

Glad you like it.

You're right, there is some amazing stuff on the forum. You just need to be in the right place at the right time or search hard for it. Both the video links were originally posted on this site in the Members Forum by other members... I don't remember their handles to give them the credit.

www.data360.org

Lots of economic data and you can download it in excel spreadsheets for free.

Leon,
I've got some links of my own. There's a lot of them so toss aside what you don't need and keep what is valuable.

Audio
www.financialsense.com
Audio & Articles, a lot of what I know about finance has been due to Jim Puplava's show. Jim is Republican-minded so if you consider yourself liberal go ahead and start listening to the other side of the debate, I will guarantee you you'll learn new things about the world and yourself. If you fancy yourself a Republican then hold on to your skepticism - just because he thinks mostly along the same lines doesn't mean he's always right.

www.econtalk.org
Podcasts on monetary policy, financial crisis, economic history etc. with references to articles, papers and books mentioned in the podcast

http://mcalvanyweeklycommentary.com/
If you enjoy King World News you'll enjoy this. The show hosts are also money managers and they have a more sane view of the precious metals markets. I listen to KWN myself but I skip all the podcasts that focus mainly on gold and silver. I find it hard to believe that a grown man who has access to so many talented people around the world still chooses to believe a ghost story (a'la JPM silver shorts) thus confusing his listeners (to some extent) as to why they should be buying precious metals (I get the PM story, but I find the fundamental arguments convincing enough, no need for a ghost story). Anyway, I don't want to start a discussion around that, just wanted to give a little heads up of what one can expect from this show.

Currency news
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/currencies/
http://www.reuters.com/finance/currencies
http://www.ft.com/markets/currencies
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/ne...s-trading.html
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837548/cid/97220/sh/3 (less original content, mostly links from various other sources)

Live fx market commentary
http://twitter.com/#!/alaidi (he also has a webpage --> http://www.ashraflaidi.com/forex-news/)
http://www.forexlive.com/

Alternatives to FF forex calendar
http://www.innerfx.com/forex-economic-calendar
http://www.fx360.com/calendar/
http://mam.econoday.com/byweek.asp?cust=mam US ONLY

News from Europe
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/
http://euobserver.com/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/


http://www.centralbanknews.info/ News on CBs
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/ FED's Factors Affecting Reserve Balances, weekly release

Eurostat
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/por.../eurostat/home

Economic policy analysis
http://www.voxeu.org/

US economy at a glance (BLS)
http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm

Varia
http://www.theatlantic.com/
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
http://www.safehaven.com/author/184/axel-merk
http://www.safehaven.com/author/4/adam-hamilton
http://www.safehaven.com/author/192/puru-saxena

Blogs
http://www.fintag.com/ UK blog
http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/ US blog
http://www.forexblog.org/ FX blog
http://blogs.wsj.com/source/ WSJ blog (one of many)

I used to have quite a bit more of them but I've deleted most of my links as I found myself overwhelmed with the volume of news published each day.

1) ECB codewords to look out for during/after press conferences
2) The meaning of credit ratings

Wow, Bug. Looks like I need to hire an assistant to get the 1st post updated. Lol.

Cheers for the links mate.

http://www.economywatch.com/

Found this one while I was looking for a breakdown of GDP, imports, and exports by country.

Nice thread ! =)

Maybe The Traders Podcast (http://traderspodcast.com/) could be added to the Media section in post 1, even though it is not a economy-related website...

Thanks,

Beto.

Can anyone suggest a podcast on Japanese economy news?