From Candy to cashmere-- prices rising

Read this article and post summary and your opinion.  This article is for February 21.

Rising Food Prices

Read this article about food prices for February 21st.  Discuss what the article is about and what is your opinion.

More help with comparative advantage in 60 seconds

If you are having problems understanding comparative advantage---take a look at this.

Valentine's Day- It's the dollar that matters????

Read this article and comment for February 14, 2011

Help with PPF

Not an article.......

More help with Comparative Advantage and Absolute

More help with Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage.  Not a weekly article

Help with Comparative Advantage

This video is for class to help you better understand comparative advantage.   Do not post a remark.

Super Bowl and Economics

This article is due February 11th.   What does the Super Bowl have to do with Economics?

Unrest in Egypt and the US Economy

This article is for February 4th.  Read this article and comment on how the current events in Egypt might impact the US economy

The 2011 State of the Union Address: Enhanced Version

Class Project: Video Contest

This is the site for a video contest that we will be entering.  More details coming.

State of Union Transcript 2011

State of the Union Address : President Obama 2011

Credit Cards On Their Way Out?

According to this article posted on CNN, credit cards are on their way out.  What is going to replace them? How do you feel about this?  Due to amount of snow days........this article is due January 28th.  (this counts for the January 24th post)

What could cause the next Recession?

Read this article for January 18th.  Please read-- respond to article and state your opinion.  

Starbucks

Read this article about Starbucks and comment on their changes. This article is for January 10th.

Census: Number of poor may be millions higher

What is the number of poor in the US? What are your thoughts concerning these predictions? This article is for January 10th.

Job hiring outlook brightens in new year

What is the future of jobs for 2011? Read and comment. This article is for January 10th.

Gas Prices for 2011

This article is the first article for second semester 2010-2011 school year. Due Date is January 10th. Please read article and summarize it's main points and state your opinion about it's contents.

Welcome to 2010-2010 Second Semester Economics

Welcome to Second Semester 2010-2011. The articles for second semester will start here and above. I will be listing one or more articles per week that you will be expected to read, give careful thought to, and then respond. You will need to include in your response: the main points of the article-- summarizing and then stating your opinion about the topic. This is worth 50 points per week and is part of a category that makes up 40% of your grade.