You will have to choose a recent article from a newspaper of magazine. This article must be from the last three months and relate to economics in some way. The article does not have to be directly about economics, but you must be able to relate the economic principles learned in class to the article. Make sure to attach a copy of or link to the articleso that I can find it if necessary. If you want to know whether or not you can/should use a particular article, feel free to email me.
Once you have chosen an article, you must write a paper about the economic principles involved in the article. There should be three sections to your paper. In the first section you will provide a brief summary of your article. In the second section you will provide your opinion on the content of the article. The first two sections only need to be one or two paragraphs each, but feel free to write more if you want to. In the third section is the most important. In this section you will apply the economic principles learned in class to the article. This section should be around 1-2 pages and will be what the majority of your grade on the assignment is based on. In this section I want you to apply the principles we learned about in class to the real world. Please don't just give definitions.