The analysis of the 2008 financial crisis and economic recession produced by this seminar is available at http://2008financialcrisis.umwblogs.org .
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Reminder: Revised Book Reviews are coming Due!
Published by March 26th, 2009 sgreenla in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsPlease email me the revised version of your book review, incorporating the comments you received on the wiki, by Sunday night. Thanks!
Assessment of Group Presentations
Published by March 16th, 2009 sgreenla in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsFor each group presentation other than the one you gave please write a one page assessment to answer the following questions:
1. What was the crisis? How did it start?
2. What were the short term impacts (economic, political, social) of the crisis (i.e. while it was going on) in the countries where it originated?
3. What were [...]
Reminder: Book ‘Reviews’ are due Feb 20!
Published by February 10th, 2009 sgreenla in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsYour Book Review is due next Friday!
The Review should provide a written summary and analysis of the book, including the following parts:
Who is the author? What is their expertise? Why are they credible on this topic?
What is the author’s argument?
Do you find it convincing? Why or why not?
What does the author say about the [...]
Here’s the link to the wiki page that we worked on yesterday:
I didn’t like my previous post that occupied this place, so I’m rewriting it. The only part that I still like is this:
Also over the weekend, I decided that Rush Limbaugh and Karl Marx were, ironically, similar in their choice of audience and rhetorical techniques. They speak to a mass of people, and turn them [...]
Brainstorming on the cause of US financial crisis and its affect on the global economy
Published by January 26th, 2009 hosaney9 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments
I remember back in the days when Dow hit 14000s in late summer of 2007 when I traded stocks as an individual trader. I thought that times were good. Whenever I watched CNBC and read Wall Street Journal, I never realized that US stock market faced any threat. However, things got ugly as subprime mortgage [...]
Some of the things we need to figure out/some questions we need to explore before we answer this broad question are:
What happened?-what lead to this financial crisis?, what is the history and background to this problem?, how long have the wheels been set in motion towards this crisis?
Who are the major players in this crisis? [...]
I think one of the important distinctions we need to make in this assignment is the difference between correlation and causation. In order to understand the implications of the current financial crisis, we need to understand which symptoms would have occurred regardless of the US crisis and which are dependent upon it. We need to [...]
How do we approach the question of causes and implications of a global economic crisis of the magnitude we face today from the perspective of undergraduate economics and business majors? We are far less than qualified, as professionals much more highly educated than ourselves are making careers out of formulating solutions, and coming up with more questions than answers. [...]