For Amanda Smith ONLY

Paper/Project: The list of papers to choose from is available in “Course Materials”. These are also some of the papers from your reading assignments. The paper is a short paper (3-4 pages). It’s more like a critique of the topic paper you choose. (just choose one topic)

This is a very short paper/project (only 3-4 pages required). So the summary part should not be too long – half of a page (as required in the instructions). I want to see more of your thoughts about the paper you’re writing about, not just summarizing and quoting the paper again (we did that in the reading assignments already). 

• The paper will be due Mar. 1 (Fri.) 

Short Paper Topic List

1. Where Is All the U.S. Currency Hiding?

http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/03/where-is-all-us-currency-hiding.html 

2. The Future of Banking in America 

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159.4715&rep=rep1&type=pdf

3. The Subprime Mortgage Market

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bernanke20070517a.htm 

and

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/148eaf7c-ee62-42f0-b215-006db6a11d65/octobersubprimereport.pdf  (page1-9)

4. How Does the Stock Market Affect the Economy?

http://dallasfed.org/assets/documents/research/swe/2001/swe0105.pdf 

5. The U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy (July 2007)

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2007/el2007-19-20.html 

and

A Minsky Meltdown: Lessons for Central Bankers

http://www.frbsf.org/news/speeches/2009/0416.html