Links from The Investment FAQ: Government

These sites offer information about government services. The old saying "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.." just might be true at these sites.

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  http://www.frbatlanta.org/
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  http://www.bos.frb.org/
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  http://www.frbchi.org/
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
  http://www.clev.frb.org/
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  http://www.dallasfed.org
• Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
  http://www.frbkc.org/contents.htm
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Mineapolis offers online access to the "Beige Book", a summary of U.S. Economic Conditions.
  http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/beige/beigeb.html
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Mineapolis offers online access to economic research and data for the Ninth Federal Reserve District (Upper Midwest).
  http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/economy/index.html
• The Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  http://www.ny.frb.org/
  Don't miss their page for computing the value of US savings bonds at http://www.ny.frb.org/pihome/svg_bnds/sb_val.html.
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
  http://www.libertynet.org/~fedresrv/fedpage.html
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  http://www.frbsf.org/index.html
• The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  (see FRED--it's the best site for Fed stats)
  http://www.stls.frb.org/
  
• The Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors, with links to the individual banks.
  http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/
• The FedWorld Information Network offers information and links for US government agencies.
  http://www.fedworld.gov
• Information from the SEC's Office of Investor Education
  http://www.sec.gov/invkhome.htm
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet offers information on federal bills, the Congressional Record, GAO, etc.
  http://thomas.loc.gov
• U.S. Bureau of the Census
  http://www.census.gov
• The U.S. Bureau of Mines offers information about minerals and mining.
  http://www.usbm.gov
• The U.S. Department of Commerce offers online information.
  http://www.doc.gov
• Data from the U.S. Department of Commerce, once available on the Economic Bulletin Board at the University of Michigan, is now available only to paid subscribers.
  http://www.stat-usa.gov/
• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers online publications with general information on patents and trademarks, press releases.
  http://www.uspto.gov
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sponsors the Electronic Data Gathering and Data Retrieval (EDGAR) Project, which offers access to a number of documents (10-K, 10-Q, etc.) filed by companies. Sites are maintained by the Edgar Project at the Stern School of Business of NYU, and by the SEC. Here are the URLs:
  http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/EDGAR.html
  http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
• The U.S. Library of Congress offers online information.
  http://www.loc.gov