Monday March 7 Assignment

Complete DIN

Then take Castle Learning Economics Quiz.

Then do the backside of the paper.  Record your answers on your blog,

Give the  Post Title:  Presidential Economic Priorities

 Then copy the following into your blog post.

       If you were President - what do you think, we should spend on the following.  What percentage of your country’s resources would you spend on the following?

_______ National Defense

_______ Roads, Mass Transit, Airplanes

_______ Health Care

_______ Education

_______ Social Security (for retired people)

_______ Welfare (people unable to work, or unemployed)

_______ Consumer Goods

_______ Other:____________________________________________

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100 -      remember your numbers / percentages should add up to 100.

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What were your priorities (most important)? Explain why? What received the least amount of resources? Why? 

Then create another blog post - called Commodities Pricing  

4. - Natural Resources - Commodities.

Now go to the following links:
1)   http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/ or 2)  http://www.cnbc.com/commodities/

Review the charts, then list one item from each category that has gone up in price and one item that has gone down in price.

Natural Resources	One that has increased	One that has decreased
Energy
Metal
Agriculture
Livestock

Summarize -  Does anything surprise you ?  If you were a car maker - which commodities which you most be interested in? 

If you were a Corn Farmer which would you be interested in? What if you were Cattle Rancher ?