St. Joe AP Macroeconomics

01/08/2016

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Economics is a diverse and involved subject that includes the actions of individuals, businesses, and municipalities on the local, national, and international level. When you take an economics course, you will learn valuable information about managing money, investing, and business topics such as su…

01/03/2014

A musical tribute by Anil Kashyap to Ben Bernanke, which was shown during the 2014 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meetings in Philadelphia,...

12/11/2013

"The T-Shirt Project" creator Alex Blumberg talks about the experience of following a T-shirt throughout the production process, from Mississippi to Indonesia to Bangladesh.

11/18/2013

Bitcoin was off to the races on Monday, soaring to new highs ahead of a U.S. Senate hearing on virtual currencies. http://trib.al/ngtHkQ4

But bitcoin isn't the only player in town. We look at five virtual currencies (including Freicoin pictured below) you might not have heard of: http://trib.al/XDScSE3

11/02/2013

As below-trend GDP growth and high unemployment continue to afflict most advanced economies, their central banks have served up an alphabet soup of unconventional monetary policy measures. But, with asset prices continuing to rise, many countries may have more helpings than they can stand.

10/28/2013

Janet Yellen, nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed Ben S. Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve, is poised to become the most economically powerful woman in the world.

10/22/2013

Economic Indicators | Jobs and UnemploymentLabor Market’s Performance Is Uninspiring By Elise Gould | October 22, 2013 Share this page:The jobs report released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed the labor market gained just 148,000 jobs in September, fewer than the average monthly...

10/18/2013

Current U.S. fiscal policy is unsustainable and large, prospective deficits and debt, driven by “mandatory” spending on social benefits for the aging population, pose an eventual threat to the economy. Yet partisan divided government has failed to address this long-run problem sensibly, instead enco...

10/09/2013

Janet Yellen, President Obama’s pick to run the Federal Reserve, has backed aggressive steps to promote employment but shown only limited willingness to tolerate higher inflation.

10/09/2013

Janet Yellen has been nominated to take over as Fed chairman when Ben Bernanke steps down. Gavyn Davies, principal of Fulcrum Asset Management, discusses with John Authers what a Fed led by Ms Yellen would mean for tapering and interest rate policy.

10/07/2013

What could go wrong on trading desks if the U.S. defaults on its debt? A lot.

10/07/2013

IN THE 1630s a sailor was thrown in a Dutch jail for eating what he thought was an onion. That onion was in fact a tulip bulb. The cost of the sailor’s gluttony...