Econ Rap: AP Econ Academy Award Winner!

From AP Econ Classroom to the US Senate?

Here's a great story on US Senate Candidate Kurt Bills, who is a Minnesota State Represenative and still a AP Econ teacher at Rosemount High School.

Kurt Bills hopes to take his knowledge of the Phillips Curve knowledge to Washington

AP Macro Exam Questions and Unofficial Answers Here

Here are the questions, and the answers.

Common Mistakes on The AP Macro Exam

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Graphs 2 Know

Graphs 2 Know For The AP Macro Economics Exam

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AP EXAM REVIEW: PAST FREE RESPONSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Click HERE. Listed by topic as well.

2012 Global AP MACRO Review

Go here to get your last minute questions answered for the AP MACRO Exam

2012 Global AP MICRO Facebook Review

Go here to get your last minute questions answered for the AP MICRO Exam

Creation of Modern Banking Activity

Directions:

1. Read the story "The Recollections of Pine Gulch." Click here for the story: It takes about 20-30 minutes.

2. Then complete the multiple choice quiz online (found here) and click submit, and I will receive your answers.

2nd Place Finish in the Personal Finance Decathlon at the Fed - Great Job!!

e-Mentors Celebration - ING Headquarters, Minneapolis

Group Photo

Hearing a presentation about ING's Business

Student Speakers!

Business Presentation

One-On-One Mentor Time

More Mentor Time

Econ Challenge, University of St. Thomas

Vote Now for the AP Econ Video Awards!

See the finalists and vote here.

Bernanke Lecture #1

Lectures with Ben Bernanke

Click here to watch the videos.  Webcasts are scheduled for March 20, 22, 27 and 29 and will begin at 11:45 a.m. CDT. Online viewing will be available to the public after each lecture. 

Lecture 1: Origins and Mission of the Federal Reserve

Lecture 2: The Federal Reserve after World War II

Lecture 3: The Financial Crisis and the Great Recession

Lecture 4: The Aftermath of the Crisis

Fed Essay Contest Sources

In addition to the sources listed on the Fed's webpage (click here) here are some additional sources I have added.

• NEW 3/11: No degree, and big debt: 40% college dropout rate. Click here. 
• NEW 3/11: Khan Online Academy: the future of US education. 60 minutes this Sunday. Click here. 
• 40% of college students drop out. No degree, no skills, and lots of debt. Click Here. 
• NEW: Wow! 1996 Law School Grad's debt will exceed 1.5 Million by the time he retires. No Joke. Click here. 
• NEW: Unemployment Rates by College Major. Click here. Ranked by salary here. More, top 10 majors with the lowest unemployment rates, here.
• NEW: Georgetown Study: Economic Value of College Majors. Click here. 
• NEW: A three year degree at the U of M? The U President wants it. Click here. 
• NEW: Harvard's Outrageously Huge Endowment Fund: Click here. 
• NEW: Good Article about tuition inflation, and what can be done about it. Click here. More here. 
• A study finds students who coast thru college often struggle after graduation. Click here. 
• ONE TRILLION in student loan debt, read more here, and here. 
• U of M executives make big bucks, while tuition rises. Click here. 
• Declining value, increasing cost of college. Click here.
• Online Education: Envisioning a Post-Campus America. Click here. 
• New start-up: Udacity, providing online education. Has a higher-ed revolution begun? Click here. 
• Online Courses: "Free Courses, Elite Colleges." Click here.
• Online Courses: Stanford Professor gives up job, hopes to teach 500,000 at online start-up, Udacity. Click here. 
• The coming higher-ed revolution. Click here. 
• Why Federal Aid increases college tuition. Click here. 

IT'S BACK!! MINNEAPOLIS FEDERAL RESERVE ESSAY CONTEST

ESSAY TOPIC: WHAT IS THE VALUE OF HIGHER EDUCATION? 

Please click here for your assignment. check out everything you need to know about the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Essay contest here on the Fed Website. As a reminder, 30 students will win $100, with a chance to win $500 and a job! I am expecting some great papers this year!

Check out the beautiful Minneapolis Fed building where contest winners will have a "free lunch" and get to miss a day of school. 

"Twin Ballers"

Economics of Everyday Life Project Examples

This is Priceless!

Facebook IPO Stats

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Chart: A Very Tepid Recovery

Econ Rap

Money, Banking, and The Fed Flash Cards

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MIcro Lesson

Reffonomcs MRP = MFC Lesson here.

Personal Finance Flash Cards

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Target and Best Buy Reach a Game Theory Nash Equilibrium

Decision to open Thursday night, a Nash Equilibrium. Total spending falls with less all day Friday shopping!

Keynes vs. Hayek: The Podcast Battle

You've seen the rap videos, now here is the Podcast Battle: Keynes vs. Hayek, courtsey of PBS:

Find F.A. Hayek here. Keynes here.

CRIBS...COLLEGE EDITION

Thanks to the Housing crash, some students are able to give up this...

and are living in something like this...

Some students at the University of California - Merced are living large. Really large, thanks to the housing boom and bust in the area. The New York Post writes: 

"Merced, in the heart of San Joaquin Valley, was ranked the third hardest-hit city in the country for home foreclosures, leaving whole communities of sparkling luxury homes vacant and depreciating, the New York Times reported. For these UC students, the “housing crisis” is an embarrassment of riches.

"I mean, I have it all!" Patricia Dugan, a senior majoring in management, told the Times from her master bedroom suite flooded with California sunshine.

The five — sometimes six — bedroom manses that often feature chandeliers, Jacuzzis, walk-in closets and swimming pools are too expensive for private occupants, but for students splitting costs, rent is peanuts. Several thousand McMansion dormers who have their own bedroom and a private bath pay just $200-$350 each in monthly rent for a typical house share."

Video: Housing Meltdown = Mansions for College Students

Follow this link for some tight college cribs. Housing Meltdown Opens Doors for College Students