CBO: Congressional Budget Office
Nonpartisan analysis of the federal budget and the economy for the U.S. Congress.
Doing Business
The World Bank's Doing Business project provides reports on doing business in a wide variety of countries. It specifically looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the impact of government regulations on business activity across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
Economic Indicators
U.S. Census Bureau site provides current economic indicators and historic time series for such things as new home sales, construction spending, and retail trade.
Economic News Releases
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Dept. of Labor provides economic news releases regarding employment and earnings data and price indexes.
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States.
FRB: The Beige Book
The Federal Reserve Board's Summary of Commentary on Economic Conditions is popularly known as the Beige Book. This report is released eight times per year, summarizing information on current economic conditions and organized by federal reserve district. It includes information on consumer spending, services, manufacturing, real estate, construction, financial services, agriculture, employment, wages and prices.
FederalReserveEducation.org
Instructional information about the Federal Reserve, economics and financial education.
EH Net
Resources for economic history and related fields
PAGE ONE Economics
St. Louis Fed's educational portal explaining "the back story on front page economics."
RePEc
Decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers.
RFE: Resources for Economists
Extensive guide of economics-related information on the web. Sponsored by the American Economics Association.
A think tank is an organization or group that focuses on public policy research and analysis. Think tanks may be affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, or non-governmental organizations.