Wednesday-Night

Sites for Economy & Statistics

1st Wednesday Night site - www.wednesday-night.com/
The original and one-and-only Wednesday Night site. Eclectic and incredibly complex, but there is something for everyone and lots of wonderful photos, many taken by Robert J. Galbraith.

2FolkSingers (Rolsyn Takeishi & Christopher van Soest) - www.2folksingers.com
Roslyn Takeishi, singer, writer, and composer, collaborates with Christopher van Soest, singer, composer, and musician, to create and perform folk music in the tradition of Seeger and Guthrie, with a splash of Muddy Waters blues, a hint of classical Segovia, and a dollop of rock-’n-roll.

Asia Times online - www.atimes.com/
Worldwide overview of Asian news events, from an Asian perspective - often news items not seen in 'mainstream' media

C.F.G. Heward Investment Management (Chil Heward) - www.heward.com/Html/whatsnew.html

CAIF Can. Ass'n of Income Funds - www.caif.ca/
Margaret Lefebvre OWN is Executive Director

CIA World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Country profiles - indispensable!

Conference Board of Canada - www.conferenceboard.ca/
The Conference Board builds leadership capacity for a better Canada by creating and sharing insights on economic trends, public policy and organizational performance.

Economist - www.economist.com/index.html
In-depth analyses of major issues. Weekly e-mail round-ups of top stories in Politics and Business available.

Emerging Markets - www.emergingmarkets.org/
A unique, free access (registration required) source of information for investors, bankers and brokers working in the debt markets of the developing world. We provide a broad range of news, features and analysis. Emerging Markets gives you access to numerous sources of information in one place. Our own editorial is supplemented by contributions from leading voices on developing country economies, news from Euromoney plc, information from Ministries of Finance, Central Banks, academics, bankers and economists.

Global Governance Group - New School of Athens (Kimon Valaskakis) - www.new-school-of-athens.org
The Global Governance Group is an international initiative bringing together academics, political leaders, and citizens worldwide to propose improvements in the global governance system in the light of the complex challenges of the 21st century. Founded as the Club of Athens-Global Governance Group at the OECD by Ambassador Kimon Valaskakis, our initiative is evolving into a partnership with the City of Athens to jointly establish The New School of Athens 2006 (NSOA). The NSOA is a recent international initiative whose mission statement is to explore new and better ways of managing our world. NSOA aims at becoming a 21st century version of Plato’s ancient Academy, focusing on the management of globalization and the democratization of world governance. In keeping with the tradition of the original School of Athens it will be a center of inter-ideological dialogue and a meeting place between opposing views of the world.

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development - www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
One of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, the OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts economic developments and researches social changes or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more.

The Organiser (India) - www.organiser.org/dynamic/
ORGANISER, one of the oldest and most widely circulated weeklies from [Delhi], first hit the stands in 1947, a few weeks before Partition, Edited and enriched by eminent personalities like A.R. Nair, K.R. Malkani, L.K. Advani, V.P. Bhatia, Seshadri Chari and now R.Balashanker to name but a few, ORGANISER has come to believe that resistance to tyranny is obeisance to God.

US Census bureau international d/b - www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
Demographic data, world population statistics, country rankings to 2050

World Bank - www.worldbank.org/
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It is also a tremendous source of information.

World Oil - www.worldoil.com/default.asp
Oilfield information source, production figures, etc.