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Top 10 Stock Market Investment Research Websites from money crashers and modified by me. Keep in mind that the main focus of these sites, above all else, is equities. So if you are looking to research ETFs, mutual funds, hedge funds, or any other diversified investment type, many of these websites may not have what you are looking for. 1. Investopedia  https://www.investopedia.com/  If you are just beginning to learn about the world of investments, Investopedia is your one-stop shop for anything and everything. Here, you can look up definitions of terms, register for newsletters with valuable information, use their stock simulator to see how much an investment earns or loses over time, and much more. You can research stocks by company name or ticker symbol and get quite a bit of information about a desired company. They also have a neat “Financial Edge” section, which can help you with some of the important fundamental principles of personal finance and the markets. 2. Yaho

Q. Professor, thank you for taking the time to provide us with a video about the Federal Reserve System.  It gave me a better insight on the system and the functions of the 12 Federal Reserve banks.  You mentioned that their job is to keep inflation under control and keep the economy going so that it does not slow down too much.  The question that always comes to my mind when I think about the Federal Reserve is the mounting deficit that we, as a country, has piled on.  How do you suppose that we will ever pay that back and how much time would it take to do so?  Do you have any idea what kind of interest we are paying on it?  If the rates are a function of credit and time, do you suppose our credit will be lowered because of the amount we owe?  I find the balancing act of keeping the economy monetarily healthy an interesting subject, thank you for posting such a video.   A. An important concept to gather is that we are floating capital that essentially comes from an unending account

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It's August, so you're either in the middle of a road trip or, in our case, jealously following your friend's RV adventure on Instagram (sweet Banff pics, Chandler). But have you ever thought about how the forests, cities, and farms you're driving through contribute to the  economy ? The Van Goghs on Bloomberg's graphics team have. They created 13 maps showing how the contiguous 48 states use 1.9 billion acres of land to create wealth. Here's what we learned: Cities are economic powerhouses.  While they make up just 3.6% of the contiguous U.S. in terms of land cover, just the  top 10  most productive metro areas contributed to ~40% of U.S. GDP in 2016. Cropland takes up about 20% of the landmass ...but for the most part, it's not feeding you. So, who's it feeding? The United States of Cows:  41% of the contiguous U.S. is used in the service of livestock. Let's talk timber:  Weyerhaeuser, the country's largest private owner