Select at least three news articles that discuss the economic concept that you chose as a topic for your term paper. At least one news article should be dated within the previous two months . Please note that the goal of this assignment is to read, understand, and discuss recent news using microeconomic terminology. The articles should be from an on-line newspaper or magazine. Materials posted on educational websites, like www.thebalance.com, www.khanacademy.org , and so on, are not considered news articles even if they were recently updated and contain material related to the term paper topic.

Outline

1. Abstract: the short description of the concepts, problems, questions 2. Introduction 3. Literature Review - please compare and contrast the opinions of the authors of the articles, present the important information, data, statistics to support your conclusions. 4. Discussion - analyze the issue described in the articles using the economic concepts and theory learned in this class. Include at least one graph developed in our course. 5. Conclusion