County Business Patterns US Census

County, ZIP, State, US, MSA.

Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
(Latest data 2016)
(Thanks for nothing.....)

Property Index Returns NCREIF US

Quarterly, 1977 - current.  
By region or property type. 

a historical measurement of property-level returns to increase the understanding of, and lend credibility to, real estate as an institutional investment asset class.

National Council of Real Estate investment Fiduciaries

India Business B2B Directory Trade Suppliers Portal

"Find Over 600,000 Global Manufacturers, Suppliers, Exporters & Service Providers"

Create an alert - Google Search Help

"You can get emails when new results for a topic show up in Google Search. For example, you can get info about news, products, or mentions of your name."

e.g.:  my alert for "emerging markets" provides free full text articles from Bloomberg, Reuters, Barron's + more.

India Brand Equity Foundation

India Industry, Economy, Export profiles.  Stats & Analysis.

India News | Sumanasa.com

SUMANASA BUSINESS NEWS links to daily articles from about 40 India print, online and broadcast sources including the Business Standard, Financial Express and Reuters India. 

The fDi Report 2019

Foreign Direct Investment  

"the annual assessment of crossborder investment based on the fDiMarkets service from the Financial Times"

Census Business Builder. Market Research

NEW "a suite of services that provide selected demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau tailored to specific types of users in a simple to access and use format."

EXAMPLE:  Therapist practice in Tulsa.

My Customers   provides summarized demographic information for Tulsa County, Oklahoma. 

Businesses Like Mine  provides summarized information about Therapists businesses in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. 

Consumer Spending   "provides a high-level overview of the spending patterns of consumers in Tulsa County, Oklahoma."

Made-in-China.com

 Manufacturers, Suppliers & Products in China
by Focus Technology Co.  (China)

The Free Dictionary (Financial)

8 dictionaries.   by Farlex
Financial, Acronyms, Columbia Ency., Legal, Medical, Thesaurus, Idioms, Computing

The Recording Industry Association of Japan

(RIAJ) Statistics, Yearbook, Monthly Production.
Neat - No Ads.   Trade Ass'n

Visual Dictionary Online

"An interactive dictionary with an innovative approach" 
Merriam Webster

Directory of Publishers - PublishersGlobal.com

Neat.  Decent profiles.  Search by country, media + more.
Links to websites w/ news, etc.

by "PublishersGlobal"  an India Media Co.

Chinese-English Dictionary

林語堂《當代漢英詞典》電子版 - Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (CUHK)

APA Formatting and Style Guide

"APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences."  A complete guide to writing an essay.
Purdue U. 

The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency

What would we do without it!

All America Counts. US Census

All RIGHT!
"America Counts tells the stories behind the numbers in a new inviting way. We feature stories on various topics such as families, housing, employment, business, education, the economy, emergency preparedness, and population." 

Start with the in-depth feature on the  Trucking industry.

Retail Math Formulas

Equations to Calculate Retail Sales and Stock.
e.g. Sales per Square Foot = Total Net Sales ÷ Square Feet of Selling Space

(SPSF also found in BizMiner, a premium database)

Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards 2019

"Winners & Finalists"  Global

Electric Vehicle Outlook 2019 | Bloomberg

"Annual forecast of electric vehicles, shared mobility and road transport to 2040"

Investing Glossary

by WebFinance inc.  "A commercial lending co."
Better than Bloomberg's glossary.
6,000+ definitions, including handy cross-references.  

Kompass. Global B2B Online Directory

It's been delivering company info for 70 years!
Fine-tuned searching -
....e.g. How many mobile phone case manufacturers in Tunisia?
You'll also find services (e.g. Freight Forwarding).
And rankings too.

Manufacturing & Trade Inventories / Sales

US Census. Includes Retail. Monthly, 1996 - current.
Sales / Inventories Ratios.

China's Real Forbidden City - INFORMATION.

(It was 10th anniversary of Tiananmen Sq.)
Terese Mulkern Terry  Online magazine 1999.
includes fee and free resources.

BYPASS THE FREE RESOURCES. All have been replaced
by the CHINA sites on this website.

See also this full text article in "Tech Crunch"

China’s Government Will Embed Police In Its Largest Tech ... Aug 15, 2015

China Business Review - Daily

 The magazine of the US-China Business Council.
a current article -"The New Rules of Tax Residency: A Potential Trap for Foreigners?"

Global Economic Prospects, January 2019

World Bank.     264 pages

Business Environment in Greece

 World Bank.    Enterprise Survey of Business Managers 
+ all the other World Bank country reports.

9 Business Tips Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know

Forbes Coaches Council  "an invitation-only, fee-based organization comprised of leading business coaches and career coaches"

All the articles are free.

Inc. 5000 List

"fastest-growing private companies in America & Europe"  Annual.
 Inc magazine.  Brief Company profiles.

Israel | Data and Statistics

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel 

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Country & Regional Profiles.
Education, Literacy, Science & Technology -- Research & Development.  Culture & Communication -- films, books.

200 Highest-Paid CEO Rankings

Equilar | New York Times 

1st - the list.  Then, link to the more detailed list.  Annual.

Russia Changes Economic Reporting. -NY Times

A news report.

Archives – New York Times

 Partial and full-text digital versions of articles from 1851 to 2006.
Some time periods require NYT subscription.  

ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Lots of good data, but 2017 is the latest entry.

Commercialized BioTech /Genetically Modified Crops. Global

Global Status of Commercialized BioTech /Genetically Modified Crops.
GM Approval Database.

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Free.  Learn HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT  & more.
Web building & all that.
by refsnes data (Norway)
Certification - $95.

Internet Archive

"The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

Books, Classic TV clips and much more. Insanely great.

(Thanks, arjun.sabharwal!!)

Libraries' Guide to the 2020 Census

ALA   American Library Ass'n.  20 pp.

Data - Doing Business-World Bank

"economic data from 2003 to the present. The data are presented in a variety of ways"

(different from other WB Doing Business sites)

Doing Business 2019

World Bank.  Search on an economy or topic.

Nailing the Library Interview

Loaded with helpful info. by Joe Hardenbrook.  
a U Wisc librarian.

Chinese Investment in US by Congressional District . Annual

National Committee on United States-China Relations

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.

 Filings & Settlements.  by Stanford Law School

Franchise Opportunities. Directory

Annual Franchise 100 + directory.  Search by Industry, State or Investment.  Listings show liquid capital required. by Franchise Gator.

Statistics Poland 2018

Polish Statistical Ass'n.
and Check for 2019 stats  in process.

PubChem

"world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers."

Job Search

 "Search job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages." See lots of resumes.  Indeed.com

A list of countries by region. World Bank

The regions exclude high income economies.

East Asia and Pacific

Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Korea, Dem. Rep., Lao People’s
Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Fed. Sts.,
Mongolia, Myanmar, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa,
Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam

Europe and Central Asia

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania,
Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine,
Uzbekistan

Latin America and the Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
Suriname, Uruguay, República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Middle East and North Africa

Algeria, Djibouti, Arab Republic of Egypt, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq,
Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, West Bank
and Gaza, Republic of Yemen

South Asia

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka

Sub-Saharan Africa

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic
of the Congo, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon,
The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia,
Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles,
Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe