The pdf is lengthy, but it contains several reports (I am paraphrasing BLS’ descriptions of each report below):

• The births and deaths of business establishments in the United States- Basically a report that discusses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) attempt to better measure business start-ups and failures (as an indication of entrepreneurship).  The bonus is that they provide lots of statistics on this topic.
• Expenditure patterns of young single adults: two recent generations compared- A report comparing the spending habits of “young, never-married adults in 2004-05 and their counterparts in 1984-85.”
• Business Processes and Business Functions: a new way of looking at employment- BLS created a new classification system and combined it with their Mass Layoff Statistics to gain a new perspective on employment.
• Service-providing occupations, offshoring, and the labor market- An analysis of service-providing occupations’ susceptbility to offshoring.

The Monthy Labor Report is produced by the U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics.  I am linking you to the December 2008 report.

To get to the report, click on the ‘Industries’ tab at the top of the page.  The report link will be on the bottom, left-hand side of the page (see screen shot below).  Note: Our subscription only allows 2 simultaneous users in the database, so be sure to click ‘end session’ when you exit to allow others in more quickly.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20081201a.htm

Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke’s speech

http://www.economicindicators.gov/  Government portal for economic indicators.  One-stop shop.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/default.htm Federal Reserve Economic Research and Data

http://www.ism.ws/ISMReport/MfgROB.cfm   - November 2008 Manufacturing ISM Report on Business

(Institute for Supply Management)

http://www.nber.org/    National Bureau of Economic Research

http://wwwdev.nber.org/cycles/cyclesmain.html  Business Cycle Expansion and Contractions

And now a sundry of government statistical resources:

http://www.bls.gov/   U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.us.htm  unemployment

http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdpnewsrelease.htm  Gross Domestic Product news release

http://www.bea.gov/national/#gdp   GDP – click on ‘current-dollar and “real” GDP” link for an excel file

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/Current/default.htm  Industrial Production

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/incomestats.html  income

http://www.bls.gov/cex/  consumer expenditure survey

From Docuticker: “CCH, part of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, has published a white paper, The Economic Bailout: An Analysis of the Economic Emergency Stabilization Act, by CCH banking law analysts Katalina M. Bianco, JD and John M. Pachkowski, JD.”   Click on the article title to get the full text.

CRS Report for Congress: The Cost of Government Financial Interventions, Past and Present

If you are a glutton for punishment (or far more patient and intelligent than I am), here is a link to the actual bill, H.R. 1424

Or, if you would like a synopsis of actions taken on the bill, check out this article in the TCU database, CQ Weekly: Financial Rescue Becomes Law  You may need to use your TCU user name & password to access this.