Economic Articles

General Economics:

1. “California Freeze Puts Squeeze on Citrus Crop,” January 20, 2007 from Washington Post.com.  Topics:  Short run aggregate supply, shifting of supply curve, increasing price level...Link:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901647.html?referrer=emailarticle

Microeconomic:

1. “It’s Going to Cost You to Save Social Security and Medicare,” October 1, 2008 provided by CNNMoney.com.  Topic:  Social Security, taxes, fixing Social Security…  Link:  http://finance.yahoo.com/focus-retirement/article/105864/It's-Going-to-Cost-You-to-Save-Social-Security-and-Medicare?mod=retirement-lifestyle
2. “Controlling Pollution:  Using Taxes and Tradable Permits,” December 2000, International Monetary Fund.  Topic:  Tradable Permits & Taxes, Pollution…Link:  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues/issues25/index.htm
3. “MasterCard Rises after Beating Analysts’ Estimates.”  Topic:  Antitrust laws, oligopolies (Visa & MasterCard), recession impact on credit card services…Link:  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azlxn7E2vJH4
4. “Taxes under Obama and McCain.” November 3, 2008:  Tax Policy Center.  Topic:  Taxes, progressive tax, regressive tax… Link:  http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=1001223
5. Addition Article: Uploaded on Nov. 11, 2008. "Jobless rate bolts to 14-year high of 6.5 percent." from yahoofinance.com on Nov. 7, 2008. Search Yahoo finance for this article...
6. "Placing the Blame as Students are Buried in Debt" from New York Times online by Rob Lieber. Search occured on June 3rd, 2010. Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109701/placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt?mod=edu-collegeprep
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Macroeconomic:

1. “How Economic Indicators Help Small Business Owners Understand the Economy,” May 14, 2009 from the About.com by Rosemary Peavler.  Topics:  CPI, GDP, Unemployment, Stock Prices…Link:  http://bizfinance.about.com/od/currentevents/a/Economic_Indicators.htm
2. “The Economy:  Why It Feels So Bad,” November 1, 2008 provided by CNN.Money.com.  Topics:  GDP, Savings, Unemployment, Personal Income…Link:  http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/106066/The-Economy-Why-It-Feels-So-Bad
3. "How bad is inflation in Zimbabwe," New York Times, May 2, 2006. Topics: Hyperinflation, printing money, and currency. Link: http://ic.ucsc.edu/~fravenna/econ105/nyt_zimbabwe.pdf
4. “Zimbabwe issues $1 million bills as inflation soars.” November 3, 2008 by CNN. Topic:  Inflation, government spending, money growth… Link:http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/03/zimbabwe.money/index.html?section=cnn_latest
5. “China’s Financial Repression,” May 21, 2008 from Washington Times.  Topics:  Currency, Price Controls, Pegged Currency…Link:  http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9419
6. "A Jobless Rate Still Unaffected by New Hiring," The New York Times published on June 4, 2010 by Motoko Rich. Search conducted on June 4, 2010 and found on www.cnbc.com. Topic: Unemployment & Discouraged Worker. Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/37509356.
7. "Leverage, Baby!" Provided by the Wall Street Journal on Monday, June 14th, 2010 by Jane J. Kim and Jeff D. Opdyke. Search conducted on the same day and found on yahoo.com in the finance section. Topic: The impact of inflation on savers and borrowers. Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/109770/leverage-baby?mod=bb-budgeting&sec=topStories&pos=5&asset=ec4e486c688d447f88d78dec0f3ab7c3&ccode=1
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