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Mikeroeconomics: Greek Financial Crisis Through Cartoons

2012-03-10T11:30:00.001-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Greek Financial Crisis Through Cartoons: A haircut is the term economists use to describe a cut in bond principal when a country renegotiates its debt. In March, 2005, Argentina ...

Mikeroeconomics: Cartoons in Economic Education

2012-02-12T04:14:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Cartoons in Economic Education: Dr. Jim Allen, forwarded t his paper on cartooning to me. The title of the paper is, The Use of Cartoons as a Teaching Tool to Enhance Stu...

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About the Author: Mike Fladlien is an AP Economics teacher from Muscatine High School in Muscatine, IA. He is an EconEdLink.org author, and also publishes the Mikeroeconomics and iMacroeconomics VB blogs.

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Balances

2012-01-21T03:23:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Balances: Real money balances measure how many goods and services your share of the nation's money supply will buy. Using this information, if Juan'...

Mikeroeconomics: Macroeconomic Indicators -- Recession

2012-01-08T03:34:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Macroeconomic Indicators -- Recession: Leslie Wolfson, an extraordinary AP Economics teacher, has complied an outstanding list of weird indicators that economists can use to deter...

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Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

2011-12-31T14:09:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: For teachers who want a worksheet on the variables that can move supply and demand, I have a Google document here . The document is 10 page...

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Mikeroeconomics: Toy Tax

2011-12-30T04:16:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Toy Tax: This Slate article explains why toys "face" a lower tax than dolls. So Transformer are action figures that are taxed lower than a Barbie....

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Unemployment Rate

2011-12-29T08:56:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Unemployment Rate: Calculate the unemployment rate for June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, and Nov. Interpret the data. My answers are in order my month:...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Per Unit Tax

2011-12-28T16:02:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Per Unit Tax: In order to boost consumer spending, the government removes the per-unit tax on Pep UP! Print off this page and use a marker to show what h...

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Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire

2011-12-27T16:37:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire: Look for my app on teaching supply and demand on the Android Mall soon. The app is free to readers of this blog. This app will elimina...

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Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Normal Goods

2011-12-26T15:41:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Normal Goods: Print out the graph, Market for Pep UP! then use a pencil to sketch what happens to the market equilibrium when consumer incomes fall. Ass...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

2011-12-23T17:00:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: On the graph, Market for Pep UP! show what happens to the market equilibrium when the price of sugar donuts increases. Assume that sugar do...

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Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand

2011-12-23T08:59:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Supply and Demand: On the graph, Market for Pep UP! show what happens to the market equilibrium for Pep UP! when the price of Yea! Cola increases. Assume th...

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Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire APP

2011-12-18T11:40:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Kindle Fire APP: My new app will be on supply and demand and available on Amazon.com next week. This app costs a $1 and will teach you about supply and de...

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Mikeroeconomics: Derivied Demand and Ethanol

2011-12-11T04:49:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Derivied Demand and Ethanol: Derived demand is a term used in the factor market used to explain that the demand for a resource such as labor is "derived" from the produc...

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Mikeroeconomics: Ethanol Subsidy

2011-12-04T05:35:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Ethanol Subsidy: How do Ethanol subsidies work? I wrote to Dr. Walter Nicholson , author of my favorite intermediate textbooks on Microeconomics. This po...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Income Elasticity

2011-12-04T04:24:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Income Elasticity: Can a good be both income inelastic and a normal good? My answer is "yes." If my income raises, I might buy more laundry detergent...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Natural Monopoly

2011-11-23T10:08:00.000-08:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Natural Monopoly: 1. If the monopoly is unregulated, what will be the monopoly price? 2. What is the perfect competition price? 3. What is the approxim...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Variables

2011-10-28T03:53:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review -- Real Variables: AmosWEB.com has the best economics encyclopedia on the web. This Daily Review was inspired by looking at current statistics. If the CPI ...

Mikeroeconomics: Efficiency Wages and Structural Unemployment

2011-10-23T05:12:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Efficiency Wages and Structural Unemployment: When Juan when to work selling advertising for SignPro, a local business, Juan was paid $25 per hour. Juan's wage rate was $7 higher than h...

Mikeroeconomics: WHO ARE THE UNEMPLOYED?

2011-10-18T03:10:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: WHO ARE THE UNEMPLOYED?: The unemployment rate is found by dividing the number of unemployed by the labor force. The current unemployment rate is 9.1%. Although th...

Mikeroeconomics: Long Term Unemployment and Structural Unemployment...

2011-10-16T07:20:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Long Term Unemployment and Structural Unemployment...: This graphic is from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Fiscal Analysis Initiative via Chart Porn. The blue line shows that the number se...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Market Structure

2011-10-15T10:31:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Market Structure: This is a quote from the WSJ . Steve Jobs knew all about competitive markets. He once likened our school system to the old phone monopoly...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Elasticity

2011-10-09T06:00:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Elasticity: In the graph to the right, explain why the Demand curve is inelastic? My answer is that elasticity is defined as the percentage change i...

Mikeroeconomics: Black unemployment rate: Highest since 1984 - Sep....

2011-10-08T04:13:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Black unemployment rate: Highest since 1984 - Sep....: Black unemployment rate: Highest since 1984 - Sep. 2, 2011 Also in this CNN Money article is a video about why the older generation has a j...

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Related Goods

2011-10-07T03:36:00.000-07:00

Mikeroeconomics: Daily Review--Related Goods: In the recent recession, many workers are finding that their hours are being cut. Thus, for these workers, their income is declining. Supp...