Ripped from the Headlines

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Economics is everywhere—and every day. In this course, we will study economic current events and the underlying economic principles behind them. Examples include unemployment and inflation, healthcare, forgiving student loan debt, congestion pricing, tariffs, deficit and debt, concert ticket prices. News sources are our textbook. We will analyze economics developments/issues/events that are in the news, domestic and international, microeconomics and macroeconomics.