For me while I was not overly technical I think my best posts were “Inequality” and “Facts about PPACA” Both I feel I expressed my own growth in understanding and how my thoughts have changed in relation to these issues because of the things I am learning and reading.
During the course I have came to better understand our current economic structure and the reason we need change…even if that change does not seem comfortable. I am from a family that has NON-STOP complained about the “OBAMA CARE” but now that I have researched other countries and compared the health care I understand the … Continue reading Self Reflection…
Overall I feel I learned a lot from this course. I felt that I learned more real world applications of economics and how it relates to us right now and relates to our future. It was enjoyable that this wasn’t your typical textbook economics course. I will be the first to admit the blogging is … Continue reading Course Feedback
“What’s the Economy For, Anyway?” was wrote by co-authors John De Graaf and David K. Batker. Graaf has focused most of his works, both literature and film, on the issues we face in America such as overconsumption and overwork. Batker is an economist he is known for his work in improving lending requirements in private … Continue reading Book Review – “What is the Economy For, Anyway?”
I would like to say that coming from the field of agriculture Food INC. is not a fair interpretations of the industry. You are watching a very biased film that is finding the ‘bad apples’ in agriculture and then making them appear to be the norm. They are very much not the norm. Agriculture has … Continue reading Agriculture and FOOD INC.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/20/news/companies/pay-raises-new-business/index.html
This is an amazing account. While he has taken a pay cut it is amazing to hear the company is actually improving and receiving more business due to that!
It seems in America we all want to see CHANGE. We all want to see this amazing improvement in our economy and see our government get out of debt, roads fixed, our veterans and elderly cared for and so on. Yet, we want this all done with LESS tax…not more. That seems to be the … Continue reading Inequality
I have not seen any other posted quizzes. Did I miss them? I have only quizzes 1-4 on my grades and shown as ‘available”
Reading this it made a lot more sense to me. Many of the ‘negatives’ that have been portrayed in the media were explained and it made sense. Those that oppose the health care reform are not analyzing the data it has been presented as more of a scare tactic. I think it is sad because … Continue reading Facts about PPACA
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-03-2012/myths-canada-health-care.3.html Check out the graph that compares the number of people avoiding health care because of cost…that one stood out a lot to me. And I understand it. I have a back surgery I have not avoided for 2 years and have lived with the pain due to the cost.