Interesting Examples

While teaching 3102, I’ve given students the opportunity to earn a few extra credit points by finding an example of a real-world event and describing how it is connected to a topic we discussed in class. Most students just discuss the obvious things: the great depression, the 2008 financial crisis, SARS2, etc. But some students write about things which I haven’t heard of, (and collecting these is secretly the reason I give students this assignment.)

• The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Iceland: A Postmortem Analysis of the 2008 Financial Crisis.
• The Evolution of the Earnings Distribution in a Volatile Economy: Evidence from Argentina
• Minnesota Public Transport spending
• Zimbabwe hyperinflation
• Japan’s Lost Decade
• CFA Franc and Guinea
• Brazil’s Plano Real
• The Economic Effects of Energy Price Shocks

• Dot Com Bubble
• “A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility Of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.”
• Yugoslavia Hyperinflation
• Tulip Mania
• China reducing its use of the US dollar
• SVB Bank Run
• China’s One-child policy
• Great Leap Forward
• Brexit
• 3M water pollution scandal
• great depression
• Invention of coffee
• Dotcom bubble
• Russia ukraine war
• aftermaths of american civil war
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Mercantilism
• “Bank Tremors Quell”
• Hurricane Katrina
• Infrastructure Bill
• Minimum Wage
• SVB Bank Run
• Five Year Plan
• Argentinian Inflation
• Fed Raising Interest Rates
• Automobile Industry Upheaval
• 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
• Greek Debt Crisis
• Post Madoff Reforms
• London Congestion Tax
• LTCM Hedge Fund
• COVID
• OPEC Oil Embargo
• Rwandan growth
• Tulip Mania
• Tulip Mania
• Reaganonomics
• Dotcom Bubble
• French pension age raise
• El Salvador and Bitcoin
• SVB Bank Run
• Tulip Mania
• Jordan Belfort and the Stratton Oakmont Scandal
• Tulip Mania
• Ditching the gold standard
• Wang Anshi’s “tender crops law”
• Effects of immigration in the US
• WW1
• Climate Change
• Someone (Hershey’s?) buying loads of cocoa bean futures
• Britain ceasing to use roman coinage
• COVID
• Nixon Shock
• Inflation in 16th Century Scotland
• George Soros and Thailand
• Hurricane Katrina
• Recent UK Inflation
• The Emu War
• 2011 Japanese Tsunami
• Cuban Embargo
• WEF Future of jobs report
• softsoap
• South Sea Bubble
• Vietnam-Era GI Bill (Enlistment lottery and effect on future earnings)
• SVB Collapse
• COVID
• Cod wars
• “Easy Money Era”
• EyjaKallajokull eruption
• Digital RenMenBi
• Hurricane Katrina
• Bilateral Trade Agreement between the United States and Vietnam
• Tulip Mania
• Kansas Experiment
• The German economic crisis of 1618 to 1623
• AI
• Onion Futures Act
• US-EU Privacy Shield
• The iPhone
• Singapore (free trade but government-owned land)
• Credit Suisse
• SVB Bank Run
• Should Cities pay for stadiums?
• US-china trade war
• 1973 and 1979 Oil Crisis
• Belt and Road Initiative
• Digital RMB
• 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

• 1973 OPEC Oil Shock
• Policy changes under Volcker
• Boston Tea Party
• Access to Pell Grant Funding for Incarcerated Students
• 2008 Financial Crisis
• The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Housing Prices in Bozeman Montana
• Convention of 1818
• Reinheitsgebot
• COVID19
• Venezuela’s Oil Crisis
• The Universal Product Code
• Chinese Covid policy
• Trade War with china
• Tulip Mania
• 1894 Sino-Japanese War
• Just inflation in general
• Trump’s election
• import substitution industrialization in Latin America from the 1930s-1960s
• Reaganomics
• Agricultural Adjustment Act
• The Mississippi Bubble
• The Great Leap Forward, and ensuing famine
• Trade War with china
• Falling Chinese Birth Rate
• Digital Renmenbi (Chinese digital Currency)\
• The Failure of the Ofo Bike Sharing company
• The Black Death
• Subprime Mortgage Crisis
• Great Depression
• El ladrillo, the brick
• Occupational Licensing
• Housing Bubble
• 2008 Housing Crisis
• The New Deal
• 2008 Housing Market Crash
• Sakoku
• Dot com bubble
• Suez Canal Crisis
• Greece and the Eurozone
• World War II
• Chinese Covid tax cuts
• Iceland banking collapse <!– Carey, D. (2009), “Iceland: The Financial and Economic Crisis”, OECD Economics Department Working Papers, Sigurjonsson T.O. (2011) Privatization and Deregulation: a Chronology of Events. In:Aliber R.Z., Zoega G. (eds) Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crisis. ->
• 2016 Indian Banknote Demonetization
• Venezuela Hyperinflation
• Minimum Wage
• Venezuela hyperinflation
• Bretton Woods
• Tulip Mania
• Commoditization of Water
• Southeast Asian Economic Bubble
• Gamestop
• China’s monetary policy during 1987 to 2006
• Just China’s economy in general
• NFTs, Cryptocurrencies, and the Economic Considerations
• Stagflation and the Nixon Shock
• Quantitative easing policy
• Bretton Woods
• Post-WWII Japanese monetary policy
• Ponzi Schemes
• Biden Covid Stimulus Plan
• Great Leap Forward
• China’s One Child Policy

• Yugoslavia’s 1992-94 hyperinflation, less well known than examples like Zimbabwe and Hungary.
• Greek Debt Crisis
• Effect of 911 on NYC economy
• Venezuela’s Crisis
• In 175 BC, Liu Heng, aka Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, temporarily allowed the private minting of bronze coinage.
• Bitcoin
• 2008 Quantitative Easing
• Silk Road
• China and the Corona Virus
• Venezuela Oil Embargo
• China rural/urban inequality
• George Soros and the Hong Kong Dollar
• COVID-19
• Bretton Woods
• Brexit
• Troubled Asset Relief Program
• National Bank Acts of 1863 and 1864
• 2016 Indian Demonetization Crisis
• Great Depression
• COVID-19
• World War I
• Just… all the US recessions handled by the Federal Reserve
• Modern Chinese Monetary Policy
• The Nixon Shock