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Classwork:
- Personal Finance Classwork has moved to the "PF File Cabinet"
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Application for the Cochrane Summer Economics Institute. You must request a letter of recommendation from Ms. Hardesty BEFORE November 20th. The deadline for your application is December 1st.
Extra Credit
- Q1: Due 10/7/19 by 3:30pm - Payback essay contest worth 5 extra credit points (to be applied to assignments & quizzes at the end of the quarter). The school winner will be nominated to the national contest. There are 10 national grand prize winners who win $5,000 in cash prizes. Two honorable-mentions per state receive $500.
- Q2: Due 1/13/19 by 8:30am - Options are listed here; you can select ONE option, with the exception of community service.
Pre and post assessments 2019 - 2020
Study Guides
Study Guide Test 1 2019
Study Guide Test 2 2019
Study Guide Test 3 2019
Study Guide Test 4 2019
Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts
Unit 2: Economic Systems and Issues in the Mixed Market Economy
Unit 3: The Price System and Supply & Demand
Unit 4: Business Organizations and Labor
Unit 5: International Economics
- Advantages and disadvantages of the EU
- A Short History of OPEC
- Barriers to Trade - M54; includes tariffs, VERs, embargos, etc. and trade agreements [must be logged in to view]
- BBC: All you need to know about Brexit
- Benefits of Trade - includes info on absolute and comparative advantage must be logged in to view
- Borderline: The U.S. Mexico Border - interactive for understanding the U.S. - Mexico border
- CIA World Factbook - Provides information on history, government, geography, standard of living, trade, resources, education, et cetera about other nations.
- Companion for The Good News about Asian Sweatshops — Naked Economics Trade and Globalization: The good news about Asian sweatshops reading questions
- Council on Foreign Relations: U.S. & Cuba
- Foreign exchange reading (M55) - must be logged in to view
- Investigations in World Trade (2020 assignment)
- Life Comparison Tool - Check out this site to see how other countries' metrics hold up to the United States.
- New York Times: Trump Just Ripped up NAFTA. Here's What's In the New Deal (USMCA)
- OEC: Visualizations of Trade from MIT
- Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: Trade Agreements
- Study guide: world trade (shorter test, not for extra credit)
- TEDTalk: What global trade deals are really about (hint: it's not trade)
- A Timeline of U.S. - Iran Relations (PBS)
- The Balance: China Economic Growth: Its Causes, Pros, Cons and Its Future
- VIdeo: Absolute and Comparative Advantage (with practice problems)
- Video: The Economist - America's embargo against Cuba
- Video: The Economics of Trump with Jacob Clifford (2017)
- Video: The European Union Explained Starts off straight-forward, and then you know...shares reality (Thanks, Marie!)
- Video: Key moments in U.S. and Iran's tortured history
- World Trade Current Event — World Trade Current Event Report 2018
Unit 6: A Nation's Economic Goals
Unit 7: Role of Government and Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Stock Market Challenge - runs from December 16 2019 through May 20, 2020 (Closing Bell)
Stock exchange open from 9:30 - 4:00pm
Study Guides
W!SE Test Preparation 2018 — Wise test preparation. Please do not print off these questions as it may prevent others from printing.
W!SE Test Preparation — PRACTICE TEST LINKS HERE. YOU MUST BE LOGGED IN TO VIEW.
Additional readings
Hardesty Copy of Interview Simulation Questions (#6)
Substitutes or complements? — Taxis vs Uber
How to Add Stock Notifications on iPhone — How to add stock notifications to your smartphone
How to Clean Out Your Gmail Inbox Fast
Law of Diminishing Marginal Return (Video) — Review the Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns here!
Middle Class Calculator — Who is part of the middle class?
More info on the value of the dollar and foreign exchange
NAFTA Explained — NAFTA video from class
Rent Control video from class — Why Rent Control Hurts Renters - Rent Control video from class
The Federal Reserve Explains Monetary Policy
This American Life: The News That's Fit to Print — Ira Glass talks to New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg about conditions in Chinese factories.