Homework 9/23 The Free Market (Con't)

I feel that we did not get through the entire article on Tuesday so tomorrow I would like to continue the discussion on Free Market economy. Here is a rather interesting take on this economic theory. And this article and this one from the same source are very interesting as well. Please look over this information for Thursday. The first site is really just for grazing and the other two are very short.

You also need to decide on a particle aspect of the current financial recession that you would like to investigate further. This topic should be something that you are particularly interested in researching. You will become our "resident expert" on this topic and will use your research to keep the rest of the class aware of current events happening in your subject. Possible topics include:

the credit crunch
government financial institutions (e.g. the Treasury Dept, SEC, Federal Reserve System)
international financial institutions (the World Bank, IMF)
Wall Street practices
Wall Street firms
Banking Crisis
government response (TARP, bailouts)
impact on Main Street
Unemployment
impact on various professions (retail, housing/construction, sports/entertainment, advertising, etc.)
economic theory (free market, regulation, planned economies)

Remember that I will not be in class on Friday and we have a holiday on Monday. By Tuesday you need to have chosen a topic and begun your research. You are required to have at least one blog post on your topic by Thursday 10/1. Please email me as soon as you have your topic.

P.S. I'm sorry that this is so late in the evening. I'm afraid some of you may not see this before class Thursday. Please, as always, do what you can. And some of you have not yet posted articles and/or the required number of comment. Now would be a good time to do so. This is part of your grade.