May 05 2008
Welker’s daily links 05/05/2008
Published by Jason Welker at 10:30 pm under Daily Links
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Robert J. Samuelson – Start Drilling – washingtonpost.com
Robert Samuelson at the Washington posts thinks the solution to our high energy prices is to start drilling for oil in protected wildlife and environmental sanctuaries, arguing it could increase America’s “energy independence”
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BBC NEWS | Business | US jobs data ease economy fears
Things aren’t looking as bad for the US economy this month. Employment, down 80,000 jobs in March, only fell by 20,000 jobs in April, not as bad as expected. This may mean the US is already on the upswing in its business cycle.
About the author: Jason Welker teaches International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement Economics at Zurich International School in Switzerland. In addition to publishing various online resources for economics students and teachers, Jason developed the online version of the Economics course for the IB and is has authored two Economics textbooks: Pearson Baccalaureate’s Economics for the IB Diploma and REA’s AP Macroeconomics Crash Course.
Jason is a native of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and is a passionate adventurer, who considers himself a skier / mountain biker who teaches Economics in his free time. He and his wife keep a ski chalet in the mountains of Northern Idaho, which now that they live in the Swiss Alps gets far too little use. Read more posts by this authorRelated posts:
