News Sites

How to enter Library Database

You can read free of charge magazines with paid subscriptions through the Pro-Quest Database. To enter this database click on the Library link and then on Magazines link which takes you to magazine databases. Click on ProQuest Direct and you will be taken to the login screen where you have to put in your username and your password.

Once you enter the database click on Publication and click on "W" for Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition or "F" for Forbes etc.

If you want to subscribe to any of these magazines on the internet or get it delivered to your door, there are student subscriptions available. Please contact me or your teacher for that.

Newspapers, Magazines

Wall Street Journal (WSJ)
This is a paid subscription. However if you are a student of NVCC you can read the WSJ articles through the ProQuest Database.

Some interesting articles:

Agriculture USDA's New Rules May Curb Supplies of Organic Coffee - April4, 2007

Africa's Poverty Trap - March 23,2007

"Europe" Turns 50 - March 23,2007

Canada Rail Strike Disrupts Supply Chain - Februarry 22, 2007

Airlines near breakeven as final costs fall - Dec 13, 2007

Pump and Dump Economy - December 21, 2006

Forbes Magazine
Some interesting articles:

Terrorism and the Bottomline - October 4, 2004

Beyond Oil and Gas - Dec 12, 2005

The Economist
Some articles are free and some require subscription.

Some interesting articles:

Special Report: Nose to Nose - Boeing vs Airbus - June 25, 2005

The Importance of Sex; Women in the Workforce - April 15, 2006

Other Online News Sources

NPR
You can search this webiste for various indepth analysis of business news. You can click on "Business" from the lefthand navigation bar.

Business Week

Some interesting articles
Can Europe Cope with a Strong Euro? - April 26, 2007
Are Indian Outsourcers loosing their Edge? - April 18, 2007
A Noble Winners Rx for China - May 7, 2007

CNN-Money
You can read the business section of the CNN website. Apart from current videos in the Home page, look at the Video- archive .

Some interesting articles and videos:

The Return of Ma and Pa Banker (Article)
Bernanke: Trade shows no employment effect (Article)
Example: Can US workers Compete? (See Video archive)

This site is created by Dr Satarupa Das
Contact: sdas@nvcc.edu
Copyright 2006
Last Update: May 10, 2007

Acknowledgements: I am very grateful for the gracious permissions to use portraits from "Warren J. Samuels Portrait Collection" of Duke University, Milton Friedman's photograph from Free to Choose Media and Ronald Coase's photograph from The University of Chicago Law School. The photograph of Simon Kuznets is obtained with generous permission from Collection of University of Pennsylvania Archives.