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Business Law: Internet Resources

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Reference Resources-Business Law

FindLaw Looking for legal information? In legal trouble? Learn About the Law is your starting place for help understanding the law. A legal resource for up to date online legal information about popular legal topics such as will preparation, divorce and child custody; And specific legal issues like legal credit repair and street legal pocket bikes While this is free it does have some advertising. You should not consider information as definitively legal. It is a good starting point to gather quick legal information.
LawInfo Established in 1994, LawInfo is recognized nationwide as a leader within the legal community, providing public access to pre-qualified, pre-screened attorneys, and to free legal resources.  Has some commercial links as well as specific business section.  [Dated information-Last revised 2002]
LII/Legal Information Institute We are a not-for-profit organization that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost. We are a small research, engineering, and editorial group housed at the Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY.  Our collaborators include publishers, legal scholars, computer scientists, government agencies, and other groups and individuals that promote open access to law, worldwide. Please support our work...
Economic Report of the President The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices
Economagic This page is meant to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. This site (set of web pages) was started in 1996 to help students in an Applied Forecasting class. The idea was to give students easy access to large amounts of data, and to be able to quickly get charts of that data

Environmental Protection Agency

The mission of EPA is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment -- air, water and land -- upon which life depends. EPA's Strategic Plan identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect from EPA and describes how we intend to achieve those results.
Federal Reserve System      The Federal Reserve's Duties fall into four general areas:
- conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing the monetary and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates
- supervising and regulating banking institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers
- maintaining the stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets
- providing financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions, including playing a major role in operating the nation’s payments system
 Financial Forecast Center   The Financial Forecast Center is a site that specializes in the creation of forecasts related to money: investments, loans, finance, economics and employment.
International Law Looking for legal research on International Law? Although this page has not been updated since 2002, it still has many valuable links.
International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 186 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

 National Agricultural Statistics Service  

The National Agricultural Statistics Service provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

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