Government Information: Economics/Business/Finance

FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System.

This site offers a wealth of economic data and information to promote economic education and enhance economic research. The widely used database FRED is updated regularly and allows 24/7 access to regional and national financial and economic data.

ALFRED® allows you to retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history.

GeoFRED® allows you to create, customize, and share geographical maps of data found in FRED®. Easily access the details and adjust how the data are displayed. You can also transform the data and download it according to geographic category and time frame.

This is a very useful guide linking to resources showing retail prices for "necessities of life" as well as average wages by decade. Most of the sources they link to are government document and available to all but a few may be subscription based and unavailable to those outside the University of Missouri students, staff, and faculty.

The USPTO is the office that registers patents and trademarks in the U.S. You can search either from this site or learn more about patents and trademarks.

This guide does an excellent job discussing what patents and trademarks are. There are also guides on how to search for them.