EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: “Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.” Thomas Carlyle
KEY DATES:
1. During the first class period, you will have a quiz on chapters 14 and 15.
2. During the second class period, you will have a student report on the present auto [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by cjanus
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1. Explain the differences among the Classical View, the Functional Finance View, the Nuanced Functional Finance View (the Nuanced Keynesian View), and the New Classical View.
2. What ,for Colander, is the problem with Social Security and what are possible solutions?
Posted on May 1st, 2009 by cjanus
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EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey.
KEY DATE:
1. During the first class period of the week, you will have a quiz on chapter 13 in Colander and chapter 11 in Wheelan. See QUIZ KEYS in previous week’s work.
2. During the [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2009 by cjanus
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EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Henry Emerson Fosdick
KEY DATES:
1. During the first class period of next week, you will have a quiz on chapter 11 in Wheelan and [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2009 by cjanus
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EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake
KEY DATE:
1. There will be a quiz on chapters 11 and 12 on Monday (or Tuesday for first period), April 13.
2. QUIZ [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2009 by cjanus
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EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: What’s gone and what’s past help should be past grief. Shakespeare
KEY DATE:
1. On Monday, April 13, you will have a quiz chapters 11 and 12.
CLASS ONE: we will discuss the first half of chapter 11. HOMEWORK: finish the chapter beginning with “Banks and the Creation of Money.”
CLASS TWO: we will discuss [...]
Posted on April 5th, 2009 by cjanus
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1. Explain the Geithner plan to save the banks based on the Krugman article?
2. What does Krugman think it wrong with the plan?
3. What, according to Krugman, was the new financial system in the United States based on?
4. How should we reform it?
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by cjanus
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EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: Kindness is a hard thing to give away. It usually comes back to you.
Key Date:
1. This Friday we will have a quiz on chapter 10 and the Krugman articles. Watch for quiz keys Thursday night.
CLASS ONE: we will read several recent columns by Paul Krugman that focus on his criticism of [...]
Posted on March 27th, 2009 by cjanus
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AT THE SALONIKA AT 8:00 sharp.
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by cjanus
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EYE-OPENER OF THE WEEK: I am resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. Louisa May Alcott
KEY DATE:
1. During the second class period of the week, you will have a quiz on chapters 8 and 9. You must be able to draw and explain graph “b” at the bottom [...]
Posted on March 8th, 2009 by cjanus
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