Choose two items (that may include a news report, article, editorial, commentary, or opinion piece) from the Wall Street Journal that were published between August 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024, and are related to the topics we have covered in the class. Download, print (or save as a PDF), number the chosen items (1 and 2), and answer the following for each item (Use a separate copy of this assignment for each item):

Item # ...

A) Related to Lecture(s) # _________

[Please list more than one if it is related to multiple lectures]

B) Two concepts or ideas that we discussed in the above lecture(s) and are used in this item are:

i) _________________________________________

ii) _________________________________________

Instructions: You must print the items and enclose them with the assignment. Highlight the portion where the concepts/ideas appear. (You may highlight electronically for me to view) Concepts that you learned in your principles classes, such as demand, supply, equilibrium, Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economic growth, inflation unemployment rate, budget deficit ... etc., will not count. You are expected to find concepts more specific to the monetary economics course, such as financial securities, debt security, direct finance, information asymmetry, moral hazard, yield to maturity, federal funds rate, open market operations, money supply, output gap, term structure of interest rate ... etc.

(Please attach the links of the articles or give me PDF files to print)

Notes: This assignment will be graded on a scale of 0 - 4. This is a mandatory assignment. If you fail to submit it, you will receive an incomplete grade for this course. This is an individual assignment and you are not supposed to collaborate. If I notice substantial similarities between the assignments submitted by two students, I may ask them to resubmit.