| Current Events |
| Steven M. Reff Economics Lecturer University of Arizona (2007 - 2016) The 2015 University of Arizona Five-Star Faculty Award |
During the 2021 spring semester, I started posting current event articles
from The Wall Street Journal with many of them having interactive
graph(s) so that students can see how what they are learning in a high
school economics course relates to real world events.
During the 2022 Fall and 2023 Spring Semesters I will be creating more
current event articles with interactive graphs for you and your students.
KEEP REFRESHING THIS WEBSITE TO GET THE MOST UP-TO-DATE
CURRENT EVENT ARTICLES.
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from The Wall Street Journal with many of them having interactive
graph(s) so that students can see how what they are learning in a high
school economics course relates to real world events.
During the 2022 Fall and 2023 Spring Semesters I will be creating more
current event articles with interactive graphs for you and your students.
KEEP REFRESHING THIS WEBSITE TO GET THE MOST UP-TO-DATE
CURRENT EVENT ARTICLES.
When you click on the links below, they will take you to a new browser
window outside this home page. To get back to this home page just
close the current event exercise browser window.
Microeconomics:
| Unit 6: Market Failure and the Role of Government |
Macroeconomics:
| Unit 2: Supply and Demand |
| Unit 5: Factors Market |
| Unit 3: Production, Costs, and the Perfect Competition Model |
| Unit 4: Imperfect Competition |
| Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts |
| Unit 3: National Income and Price Determination |
| Unit 4: Financial Sector |
| Unit 5: Long-Run Consequences |
| Unit 2: Economic Indicators |
| Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts |
| Price Floor (Minimum Wage 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE3zRAeconomics2021.html |
Price Ceiling and Price Floor Articles
| Supply and Demand Article (February 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE2z2021RAeconomics2021.html |
Supply and Demand Articles
| Economic Indicators (RGDP, FE, and Inflation): https://reffonomics.com/CE10MacroIndicatorsRAeconomics2021.html |
| Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand Article (Feb 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE6zRAeconomics2021.html |
| Cost of Production Article: https://reffonomics.com/CE8zRAeconomics2021.html |
| Aggregate Supply and Demand Article (Feb 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE2zRAeconomics2021.html |
| Costs and Profit Maximization Article: https://reffonomics.com/CE7zRAeconomics2021.html |
| Unit 6: Open Economy -- International Trade and Finance |
Cost of Production
| Farming Article: https://reffonomics.com/CE12zRAeconomics2021.html |
Perfect Competition (the Farming Industry)
| Money Supply M2 Article (Feb. 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE13BzRAeconomics2021.html |
| Jerome Powell View on Easy-Money Policies (Feb. 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE14BzRAeconomics2021.html |
| Goodyear and Cooper Tire Article: https://reffonomics.com/CE14zzRAeconomics2021.html |
| Inflation Risk? (March 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE15zRAeconomics2021.html |
| Yellen Expects U.S. Economy to Return to Full Employment in 2022 (March 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE16BzRAeconomics2021.html |
| Cosco, Kroger & Target Articles: https://reffonomics.com/CE17BzRAeconomics2021.html |
| Household Spending Picks Up After Cooling Last Month (March 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE18BRAeconomics2021.html |
| Scarcity Current Event 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit1Scarcity.html |
| Marginal Analysis 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit1MarginalAnalysis.html |
| Scarcity Current Event 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit1Scarcity.html |
| PPF Current Event 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022unit1PPF.html |
| Measurements of Inflation Current Events 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit2macroCPI.html |
| Price Ceiling (Rent Control) Current Events 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit2RentControl.html |
| Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill Current Events 2021: https://reffonomics.com/CE19InfrastructureBill.html |
| Supply-Side Constraints Current Events 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE21FedReserveRAeconomics2021.html |
| Supply and Demand Article (February 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE1zRAeconomics2021.html |
| Supply and Demand Article (February 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE2z2021RAeconomics2021.html |
| Supply and Demand Article (February 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE1zRAeconomics2021.html |
| PPF Current Event 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022unit1PPF.html |
| Current Events for 2022 are highlighted in cyan color |
| Current Events for 2021 are highlighted in misty green color |
Suggestion: Have your students read this article
AFTER you have taught perfect competition.
AFTER you have taught perfect competition.
| World Trade + Tariff Graph 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE22WorldTradeTariff2021.html |
| What is in the Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Bill (November 2021): https://reffonomics.com/CE19InfrastructureBill.html |
| FED Interest Rate Hikes (June 2022): https://reffonomics.com/CE1amplereserves1.html |
Shortages
| Teacher Shortage Current Events 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit2Shortage2.html |
| Supply and Demand (Simultaneous) Current Events 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022supplydemand4.html |
| Supply and Demand (Simultaneous) Current Events 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022Unit2supplydemand4.html |
| Economic Indicator: Full Employment (August 2021 - August 2022): https://reffonomics.com/2022Unit2Employment.html |
| Economic Indicator: Inflation (August 2021 - August 2022): https://reffonomics.com/CE202Macromeasurements.html |
| Economic Indicator: Econ. Growth (August 2021 - August 2022): https://reffonomics.com/CE2022MacroEconGrowth.html |
| Pre-Pandemic - September 2021 Economy: https://reffonomics.com/CE10MacroIndicatorsRAeconomics2021.html |
| Business Cycle (2000 - 2021) https://reffonomics.com/CE10BusinessCycle1RAeconomics2021.html |
| Added Costs to Consumers by Price Searchers: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022PriceSearcher.html |
| U.S. Economy Slowed in 3rd Quarter 2021: https://reffonomics.com/CE11ASADandRGDPRAeconomics2021.html |
| Currency Exchange Rates (September 2022): https://reffonomics.com/CE2022unit6MacroER.html |
| Revenue, Costs, and Profit of TikTok (September 2022): https://reffonomics.com/CE2022microUnit3TikTok.html |
| Currency Exchange Rates (September - October 2022): https://reffonomics.com/CE2022macroUnit6ER2.html |
| Monopsony Labor Market 2022: https://reffonomics.com/CE2022unit5microMonopsony.html |