Category: Hot Topics
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Welcome: 2020-21 FTE Student Ambassadors
This year, FTE is welcoming thirty-seven student ambassadors who are committed to sharing the economic way of thinking. FTE Ambassadors…
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Webinar: The Economic Implications of COVID-19: An Update
On Wednesday, June 10 at 6:00 PM ET/ 3:00 PM PT, Professor Scott Baier, Chair of the Economics Department at…
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Webinar: This Is Your Brain On Numbers: Data, Statistics and COVID-19
On Wednesday, May 27 at 3:00 PM PT/ 6:00 PM ET, FTE will present a webinar titled This Is Your…
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Webinar: Economic Freedom and Pandemics in American History
On Wednesday, May 13 at 3:00 PM PT/ 6:00 PM ET, FTE will present a webinar on Economic Freedom and…
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Webinar: COVID-19 Economic Implications and Policy Response
On Wednesday, April 29 at 3:00 PM PT/ 6:00 PM ET, FTE will present a webinar on COVID-19 Economic Implications…
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Hot Topic: Trade Wars – Economics Awakens
By: Ninos Malek, May 2018 Use this Hot Topic in the classroom! Teacher Guide Fundamental Concepts There are times that…
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Hot Topic: The US Airline Industry…Fight or Flight!?
By Greg Caskey, January 2018 Use this Hot Topic in the classroom! Teacher and Student Guides. “It’s time to level the flying…
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The Streamin’ Blues
What’s not to like about streaming? The music you want, wherever and whenever you want. Sounds good! But does your favorite artist think so?
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Hot Topic: In a Pickle
“You’re kidding me?!” That’s what the Alaska food bank director said when Feeding America sent her a semi full of 5 gallon buckets of pickles!
Learn how the economic way of thinking helped a charity sell its way out of a pickle.
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Hot Topic: Immigration 2016 !
The tools of economic reasoning can bring some much-needed critical thinking to the heated political debate over immigration policy.