Syllabus

ECON 209 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

This is the site for Block VIII, 2008 students in Stinespring's EC 209 Intermediate Macroeconomics.

Online Readings - Date assigned	Articles to be Read for Next Class Day
Monday, April 21	None
Tuesday, April 22	Big Business Is A Big Spender Again, Tea Leaves Point to Recession, Workers Get Fewer Hours (Graphic)
Wednesday, April 23	Running on M3
Thursday, April 24
Friday, April 25	The Dropout Puzzle, US Employment Data
Monday, April 28	The Crude Art of Policymaking
Tuesday, April 29	Study for Practice Exam
Wednesday, April 30	Study for Exam
Thursday, May 1
Friday, May 2	Work on Papers
Monday, May 5
Tuesday, May 6	ISLM and Stock Market, A Neutral Federal Funds Rate
Wednesday, May 7	Soft Landings and the Stock Market

Class Notes - These notes are based on the Blanchard book chapters and focus on the models he uses. These will be a great help in modeling.

Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter14, Chapter 15

Videos/TV on the Economy and Financial Markets

MarketWatch

TheStreet.com

Bloomberg.com

Funny Video on Ben Bernanke Beating Out Glenn Hubbard to Fed Chair

Data Sites

For data on stock and market indices: http://finance.yahoo.com/ and Marketwatch.com

For monetary, US debt and other Federal Reserve data: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H15/data.htm

For macroeconomic data: Economic Report of the President

For general macroeconomic charts: http://www.martincapital.com

For monetary trends: Monetary Trends

For Federal Reserve Bank members speeches (good for generating paper topics): Speeches

PAPER/PRESENTATION

Social Sciences librarian, Robin, Satterwhite, will give the class a research talk at Tutt library at 10 am Friday. This talk is mandatory for you all.

Information on the Colorado College Writing Center

Paper/Presentations Guidelines,