I have not had the habit of following the news before, and after spending some time on this forum and talking to people in real life about the economy, I find most people knows what's going on in the world, economically. I really wish to get first hand information as well and stay more updated. Any recommended source of news?
Are you looking for economy as a whole or just a certain country? It's quite different since they have different aspects. Google is your friend and you don't need to look at single site only fore regular economic updates.
For a certain country you can google the country name + economy news ;
For general, then just type economy news or something similar to that.
There are also news site or related sites which has an option to receive daily newsletter or updates.