New Economic/Financial Research Portal

I'm always interested in trying out new business research tools and the Resourceshelf Resource of the Week is something called Eco5.com which works by "carefully selecting free research resources and making these directly accessible via a simple menu structure".

The site is international in scope and offers a wide variety of material: economic facts and figures (GDP, exchange rates, interest rates, employment income/personal consumption, trade), country studies, glossaries, links to financial institutions and to "repositories of working papers".