Subject Specialist:
Law, Political Science, International Affairs
814-863-1347
e-mail: hms2@psu.edu
Helen Sheehy
Title: Head Social Sciences Library
Subject Specialist:
Law, Political Science, International Affairs
814-863-1347
e-mail: hms2@psu.edu
Recovery.gov
"Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going."
Foreign Policy Implications of the Financial Crisis [PDF]
Written Statement of Douglas Rediker, Director, Global Strategic Finance Initiative, New America Foundation Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, February 11, 2009
The U.S. Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for U.S. Policy
Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, November 2008 [PDF]
Financial Stability
U.S. Department of the Treasury Web site that provides " information and data related to the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA) and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)"
Find the most current legislation and related publications on the websites of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate as well as on committee websites.
Senate Budget Committee
view both the Democratic and the Republican websites for this committee
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
International Conference on Financing for Development [Doha Conference] Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December 2008
World Trade Organization [WTO]
Director General Pascal Lamy — Speeches and Statements
Many of the more recent postings concern the global financial crisis and the response of the WTO
CCH Financial Crisis News Center
"The CCH Financial Crisis News Center is intended to provide the legal community and others with news and links to vital information on the current financial crisis."
The Market Oracle [United Kingdom]:
The New Economy Blog [Christian Science Monitor]
ibss blog [International Bibliography of the Social Sciences]
OpEdNews.com [affiliated with the International Humanities Center]
Global Financial Crisis [novinite.com, Sophia News Agency, Bulgaria]
International Conflict, Western World Threats, and Geopolitical Intelligence [1913 Intel]
Peterson Institute for International Economics [Washington, D.C.]
"The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy"
Global Economy in Crisis [Council on Foreign Relations Center for Geoeconomic Studies]
Global Financial and Economic Crisis [Third World Network]
"an independent non-profit international network of organisations and individuals involved in issues relating to development"
The following are Web sites maintained by individual researchers:
Global Financial Crisis : Africa Bears the Brunt [Pan-African Newswire : Abayomi Azikiwe]
International Financial Crises Homepage
"This page is dedicated the study of financial crises, especially currency and banking crises. It is a part of the International Economics Network."
"The International Economics Network is a collection of key resources for international economics, as well as other related disciplines."
Site maintained by Jamus Jerome Lim, an economist with the Middle East and North Africa region of the World Bank
The International Financial Crisis: Its Causes and what to do about it [PDF] : workshop sponsored by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe / Alliance des Démocrats et Libéraux pour l'Europe]
Speech by Charlie McCreevy, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services at this workshop
International Conference on Financing for Development [Doha Conference] Doha, Qatar, 29 November - 2 December
The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G-20) was established in 1999 to bring together important industrialized and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy.
A Google video search for global financial crisis provides hundreds of video clips as well as longer special programs. Use the also try search terms at the top of the initial results page to view other content.