Purpose: You will need to locate, read, analyze, summarize, and react to an economically related news article. My goal is to have you think about the specific concepts, principles, and theories that you are learning in class and apply them to real-life events.

Guidelines:

• This is a group project, two student’s will be in a group.
• Student’s need to find a recent economic news article that relates to the listed topic. Article should not be older than 60 days.
• Student’s need to read, summarize, relate, and react to the news article.
• Student’s need to prepare a presentation of 10 to 12 slides based on the grading rubric.
• Student’s need to give the presentation for 8 to 10 min.
• Student’s need to submit the PPT in CANVAS.

Economic Concept List: –

• Demand, Supply and Market Equilibrium
• The Command Economic System and The Market System
• Production Possibility Curve
• The Circular Flow Diagram
• Nominal and Real GDP
• Unemployment
• Inflation
• Economic Growth
• Interest Rate
• Saving and Investment
• Fiscal Policy
• Monetary Policy
• International Trade

Sources:

This is just a partial list of some sources I would encourage you to look at:

Newspapers:

Wall Street Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Business Section or Main Section), The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today (Money Section or Main Section). The Boston Globe, The Arizona Republic, and The London Times

Magazines:

The Economist, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Money, Forbes, Baron’s, Inc., Business Week, Fortune, The New Republic, The National Review.

Here is the sample presentation,

Assignment will be graded based on this rubric.