Is the economy growing? Shrinking? Staying about the same? It is actually rather easy to find out. Think about what you have learned about measuring the economy and investigate the news to see where are currently are, where we may be heading or where we have been. It’s all possible by looking into GDP! IN THE NEWS: Select a news story from one of the following Internet news organizations below:
CNN Money USA Today Money Wall Street Journal Market Watch Wall Street Journal Economy NY Times Business Day Reuters Economic News Yahoo Economic News NPR Economic News Forbes Economic News The Economist Write a 3 to 5 paragraph summary of the news story and explain how it relates to the material you learned this week. Do not copy and paste directly from the article except for small quotes that help explain your summary. Use quotations marks for anything that is directly from the news story. Include the EXACT URL that can be clicked to directly retrieve the news story you selected at the end of your paper for citation purposes. NOTE: This is NOT the link to the news organization. The URL must retrieve the actual news story. Be sure to reference all sources using APA format.
Link:
http://www.economist.com/