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Here are my best guess answers for this year's AP micro FRQs. Good luck to your students on Macro! 😄 Set 1: youtu.be/OvJEPCXj5xo Set 2: youtu.be/kn2DLa5_0Tc

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Phew. Payrolls grew a relatively uninteresting (and positive!) +177k in April, and unemployment was unchanged at 4.2%. This economy is still humming along. NOTE: This is a reading largely from the pre-tariff period. Still very foggy about what lies ahead.

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Hop-portunity costs, tariffs, and bunny suit economics.

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Interesting example regarding the downside of tariffs. If you've got Mr. Beast fans in your class, you might get extra buy in. finance.yahoo.com/news/ironica...

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Economics might seem -- from the outside -- like it's about competition. But really it's about creating the miracle of cooperation, where folks from all around the world enrich your day in a million tiny ways. It's that beauty that I'm worried about losing.

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Not doing a full-blown CPI thread today (because so much news), but a few quick ones. First: Consumer prices fell 0.1 percent in March, the first monthly decline since 2024 (unrounded) or 2020 (rounded). #NumbersDay

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I've been getting a lotta (positive!) feedback on this interview with PBS News Hour. It was sort of weird: Each question was of the form: "okay, but what about this argument for the Trump tariffs"? I just tried to use it as a teaching opportunity.

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This is what I look like when I'm angry.

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I pitched my NYT editor that folks really need to understand that the deadweight loss of tariffs rises in the square of the tariff rate. Despite the wonkiness of it all, they said yes--as long as you can explain that intuitively. Lemme know how I did:

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My 12 y/o son was willfully ignorant of politics until he calculated the potential cost of a Switch 2 with tariffs. Now he is radicalized.

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Finished adding explanation videos for the newer #APMacro FRQs. Hopefully they can help kids understand the logic behind the rubrics. Good luck prepping your kids for this year's exam! www.reviewecon.com/macro-frq

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Just updated and extended the #APmicro graphs shading game it's now 96 questions (was just 29)! It's divided by unit to make it more manageable. The old version is still linked for those that want it. www.reviewecon.com/games-activi...

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Every once in a while I get asked what other resources I recommend for AP econ exam prep. If you need something more extensive than a review booklet, 5 steps does a great job.

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Economists know it, but politicians rarely say it—globalization massively reduced global inequality. 🧪 #EconSky

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It's an interesting bit of MacroEconomic irony that, while Trump's threatened tariffs will not close the US/Canada trade deficit, the DOGE cuts might.

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What Wendy said…👇

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I need people to play attention to this 👇 and to what I said on Thursday www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t... The destruction of politics is coming for the economy

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Turns out bird flu impacts chicken product markets differently. 🤯 www.newsnationnow.com/business/you...

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This chart from the BLS's press release tells the not-so-great story of where we are on inflation.

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CPI top lines

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The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. https://buff.ly/42ReSrr

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When @benstiller.redhour.com responds to your reply, even a bad ending will make MB>MC for watching Severance. 😅 #APmicro

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This is an astonishing (and beautiful) fact, and we really ought to celebrate it. The labor market is in very good shape, and continuing to improve. If the economy continues its momentum (a big if, to be sure), the unemployment rate isn't far from returning to its fifty year low.

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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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The U.S. economy ended 2024 with • solid underlying growth (+3.2% real final sales to private domestic purchasers) • an unemployment rate at 4.1% • core PCE inflation rising 2.5% on a Q/Q annualized rate

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I do love FRED! ❤️🥰😍 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

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What are tariffs? Why do they matter? What do they actually do? New video explaining: 1. Their history 2. Why Trump likes them 3. Why the market doesn't seem to care 4. The economic impact 5. aha what's next though

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🤔 www.reviewecon.com/trade-tariffs

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ReviewEcon is excited to be on Bluesky! If you are looking to review and practice Microeconomics and Macroeconomics Principles skills, I've got 77 games and activities with 1770 questions to help you! www.reviewecon.com/games-activi...

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