This is an excellent general site dedicated to finance education. It contains information on debt securities, equities, and derivative instruments. (
www.finpipe.com
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This is an entry point to all of the Federal Reserve Bank sites, which provide economic data and research as well as access to the St. Louis Fed's Federal Reserve Economic Data Base, FRED. (
www.federalreserve.gov/otherfrb.htm
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The Securities and Exchange Commission site has links to information about the services provided by the SEC as well as to data sources, including a tutorial on EDGAR, which allows you to access firms' SEC filings. (
www.sec.gov
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The American Finance Association Board site has links to streaming video interviews on the history of finance. (
http://www.afajof.org/association/historyfinance.asp
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