Extra Credit Section

Extra Credit Section:

Extra Credit Ideas Comprehensive Guide updated Winter 09

New Links

Updated URL for 1 link in above doc: http://yourcallradio.org/

Extra Credit Directions and Book List

Economist Articles for Extra Credit

1. Mervyns and the Lesson of Private Equity

2. Corporate Spin-offs http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_18/b4032088.htm

3. Detailed Review of the Current Financial Crisis: (Online Book - hint, click full-screen view icon) http://www.scribd.com/doc/13027573/Robert-Weissman-James-Donahue-Sold-Out-How-Wall-Street-and-Washington-Betrayed-America

4. Article re: 70 (of the 90) million offshore acres oil industry already has are not producing oil: http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/23/news/economy/oil_drilling/index.htm?cnn=yes

And/or: Find Articles on Oil Speculation.

The above document is all you need to do this ex cred. The next 3 links may or may not be helpful supporting materials, but do not turn in those grids. Just answer the 4 questions, in response to one of the three situations/articles, all of which is contained in the above document, not the below 3 documents.

Ports Outcome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/politics/10ports.html

Blank Matrix for Gov Inv Grp Wrk

Chart on How to Do Govt Inv Issues Grp Wrk

7. Campaign top economic advisers and analysis of ficscal policies: http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=4&islist=true&id=13&d=07-24-2008 Quick Guide to Candidates' Economic Plans: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26533620/

8. Current state of the economy: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25938404/

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

9. Phama Ex Cred Qs

10. Alberta and Brazil Energy Extra Credit

11. DeBeers

OGEC

OGEC 2

Cartels Report 2 Option

13. Yahoo Eyes News Corp

Public vs Private Goods

It is advised to listen to this radio show: Putting Deregulation Back on the Table [03.04.08] http://a4.g.akamai.net/7/4/27043/v0001/kalw.download.akamai.com/27043/YourCall/030408yc.mp3

For more hundreds of editions of this daily radio sho on a wide variety of news topics, it's http://yourcallradio.org/

15. Wage Differentials Grp Wrk

16. Social Security

17. Health Care Key Points

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/26-4

http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2009/september/california-s-real-death-panels-insurers-deny-21-of-claims.html

http://www.gallup.com/poll/122393/OECD-Countries-Universal-Healthcare-Gets-High-Marks.aspx

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/10/republicans-obama-heres-health-plans/

http://rsc.tomprice.house.gov/UploadedFiles/RSC_Health_Care_Bills_Compilation--Sept2009--FINAL.doc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Angell

18. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/StockInvestingTrading/cost-of-the-bush-era-11-point-5-trillion.aspx#pageTopAchor

19. For the following link, think about this: the Great Depression was officially 1929-1933. Note the top marginal tax rate 1917-1980s, that rate in the 4 years before the Depression and during it, that rate in 1932 (the year before the economy began to recover), and that rate in the 1950s (our nation's highest period of productivity growth, considered about as good or even better than the productivity gains of the 1990s). What could explain what happened in each of these periods given what occured during each tax regime?

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213

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