It would be fantastic if any of you can spare some time to write some short blurbs (100-150 words) on any of the following topics. Since we're only doing about an issue per term, it would be silly to just report the news from several weeks ago, so the best thing would be to write a short blurb (impartial!!) and then do a little "Tangent's Take" (can be in bullet points really... just economics-related questions to inspire discussion) on the news story.
Possible news stories (those shaded grey are covered!):
Possible news stories (those shaded grey are covered!):
- WGA strike in the US and the power of unions/ distribution of content
- Gore and the Nobel Peace Prize
- Gore and venture capital in Silicon Valley
- the Nobel Prize for Economics going to mechanism design theory
- Coffee house discrimination findings
- UK house prices going down
- Northern Rock and what's going to happen now
- Gisele and the sliding US dollar (and cable reaching record levels!!)
- Something on the subprime issue... although really, the above three are all part of this
- Oil and commodity prices going crazy
- Chinese inflation
- What's going on in Pakistan (but please put an economics spin to it?)
- Rising rates of alcohol-related deaths and the possibility of higher taxes
- the Spice Girls reunion and how that will singlehandedly lead to peace on earth, just in time for the holiday season! (yeah...please, no)
Please just post your blurbs on here, so we can take stuff off this list as they come in.
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