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The American Economy: January 2011
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Monday, January 31, 2011. Should a business have any objectives other than making as much money as possible? Two recent articles address this issue. The first. Takes on the issue much like our taking sides issue #1 does. (H/T Zhao) The second. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. For a while the courts said that Emanuel could not run as mayor of Chicago. Friday, January 21, 2011.
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The American Economy: Fannie and Freddie
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Thursday, March 31, 2011. We spoke about TARP in class and mentioned the issue of Fannie and Freddie (the quasi private mortgage giants). This is an excellent piece. I think it is the first piece actually). It is worth listening to (click on the "Listen to the Podcast" link). Update I: Here is an interesting article. Update II: Part 2 here. And Part 3 here. People on one ha...
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The American Economy: Global Poverty
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Here is a good Op-Ed piece. In the NY Times on Financial Aid. One very interesting paragraph, and a nice complement:. May 31, 2011 at 6:32 PM. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Economics of Social Ownership. Dollars and Sense: Real World Economics. It Might Be Dangerous.
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The American Economy: Dominos
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. Deficits are financed by issuing bonds. When the credit rating falls for those bonds, it signals an increased risk of default. This is currently the case in Greece. June 17, 2011 at 1:37 PM. Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Economics of Social Ownership. It Might Be Dangerous.
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The American Economy: June 2011
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Monday, June 20, 2011. Is Spain the next Domino? And the dominos keep falling, this time it is Spain. On Sunday, protesters insisted that workers and the unemployed would not passively accept spending cuts to help ease a crisis they had no role in causing. Wednesday, June 15, 2011. As the previous post points out, Greece is in trouble. To get out of this trouble (as we ...
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The American Economy: Jobs
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Monday, June 6, 2011. Bad news in the jobs market. More evidence that this economy is slow to recover with more questions of if this is the new way of things. Here is a scarry stat:. A stalled job market with a scant 54,000 jobs created in May. Now consider this, it takes about 130,000 to 150,000 jobs per month to replace the retirees. June 11, 2011 at 3:37 PM. I think that...
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The American Economy: November 2010
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Monday, November 22, 2010. Federal Reserve and Politics. A very good talk. About the independence of the Federal Reserve. In short, making the Fed accountable to short term political objectives at the expense of long term economic problems is a mistake (most economists probably would agree). So too does Tim Geithner. Monday, November 15, 2010. Monday, November 8, 2010.
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The American Economy: April 2011
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Designed for the Business, Non-Business, Economics, Non-Economics Major(s) to Explore and Understand a Variety of Real-World Issues. Monday, April 25, 2011. College Football Helmet Stickers. Economics is all about incentives. When a college football player does well (in many schools) they get a sticker on the helmet. This is an interesting piece. On the incentives this creates for the players. Mony quote:. Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Higher Ed the Next Bubble? This is an interesting piece. HT: The big lead.