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This is the intended list of topics and dates but it may change.
Council of Economic Advisors Reports
		NOT SO Current Events
Date	Topic	Econweb	Tim Taylor's Macro	Macro Economics in Context
Micro topics not covered in class		Chapter 2: Graphs, Scarcity, Opportunity Cost, and Production Possibilities Frontiershttp://www.econweb.com/macro/ppf/index.html		MAC_4_Supply and Demand
			Chp 1
		Chapter 3: Supply and Demand	Chp 2	MAC_2_Useful Tools
			Chp 3
DATE	Topic	Yeager	Taylor	MacInContext
5/18/2009	Introduction Overview	Chapter 1: Overview of the US Economy	chp 21	MAC_3_What Economies DO
				MAC_1_Economic Activity
5/19/2009	Measuring the economy - GDP	Chapter 4: Output and National Income	chp 22	MAC_5_Macro Eonomic Measurement
	a bit about growth
	Table 1.1.5. Gross Domestic Product
5/20/2009	INFLATION	Chapter 5: Inflation	chp 24	MAC_5 section 5
	http://www.bls.gov/cpi/home.htm
	http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
	Paper about new CPI
	relative importance
	Unemploment
5/21/2009	Occupational Handbook	Chapter 6: Unemployment	chp 23	MAC_7_Unemployment
	unemployment movie
	Weeks of unemployment compared, xls file
	Leading Indicators
5/22/2009	Foreign Exchange and Trade	Chapter 7: Foreign Exchange and the Balance of Payments	chp 31	Mac_13_Global Economy
			chp 3
		Chapter 18: International Trade	chp 25
5/26/2009	Aggregate Demand and Supply / Expenditure Model	Chapter 8: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply	chp 26	MAC_9_Aggregate Demand
		Chapter 9: The Income-Expenditure Model	chp 27
5/27/2009	AD AS	Chapter 10: The Fixed-Price AD-AS Model	Chp 28	MAC_10_Fiscal Policy
	MULTIPLIERS	Chapter 11: The Output Multiplier
	Fiscal Policy	Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy & Supply Side Economics
5/28/2009	Budget of the US	Chapter 13: Budget Deficits and the National Debt	chp 32	MAC_10_Fiscal Policy
	budget simulation		chp 33
	a debt clock
	Monthly statement of the Debt	http://www.federalbudget.com/                BUT be warned, they don't like the FEDERAL BUDGET!!! Good links however	Citizens Guide to the Budget	On and Off Budget Charts and spending
	The Financial Pipeline has some good, and short explanations of some finance concerning bonds, interest rates and inflation.  However it is Canadian.
6/1/2009		Chapter 14: Money and Banking	chp 29	MAC_11_Monetary Policy
6/3/2009	http://www.federalreserve.gov/general.htm	Chapter 15: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy	chp 30	MAC_11_Monetary Policy
			international banks
			http://www.bis.org/publ/cpss66.htm bank of international settlements
	http://www.ffiec.gov/nicpubweb/nicweb/Top50Form.aspx		http://www.bis.org/cbanks.htm
			http://www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html
			http://www.ecb.int/bc/faqbc/figures/html/index.en.html banknotes
6/4/2009		Chapter 16: The Phillips Curve	chp 34	MAC_12_All together
		Chapter 17: Monetarism
6/5/2009	Mankiw Simulation due