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OBAMA WEIGHS HIS ECONOMIC LEGACY

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/magazine/president-obama-weighs-his-economic-legacy.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

THE ANTI-MONEYBALL ELECTION

http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/the-anti-moneyball-election?mbid=nl_160423_daily&CNDID=21779336&spMailingID=8828585&spUserID=MTMwNjU1OTY3MTY0S0&spJobID=902366567&spReportId=OTAyMzY2NTY3S0

Econ Questions for Mr. Janus' class

You will be asked to write on three of the following four questions. 1. How has the nature of unemployment changed over time? 2. How are the Central Bank, and fiscal and monetary policy different in a developing country? 3. Explain the history of goods inflation and asset price inflation. 4. What recent problems have occurred with the quantity theory  of money and the Short-run Philips curve?

TEN STEPS TO BUYING A NEW CAR

10 Steps To Buying A New Car - Kelley Blue Book

Congratulations, You've Been Fired

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/congratulations-youve-been-fired.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

A Trade Lesson in Trump Scarves

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-trade-lesson-in-trump-scarves-1460155495

Possible Janus essay questions for test on Friday

1. What are the similarities and differences between the financial crises in Greece and the one in the United States? 2. How did the GOP elite lose voters to Donald Trump? 3. Describe several fundamental forces that affect exchange rates and how they work. 4. Describe fiscal policy affect on exchange rates. 5. What are the dos and don'ts of renting an apartment? 6. How is the trade deficit dictated by international and domestic goals? Give an example where a country had to apply contractionary monetary policies and a country where they had to apply expansionary monetary policy. 

What Trump and Sanders get wrong on trade

http://eeditionmobile.chicagotribune.com/Olive/Tablet/ChicagoTribune/SharedArticle.aspx?href=CTC%2F2016%2F04%2F03&id=Ar02100

Study finds families in worse shape as income lags spending

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