Spring 2011; Econ 215: Money and Banking; T-TH 8:00-9:15

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I will be posting course material here. As you probably noticed there is a direct link to this post on the right hand side of the blog. The material posted here is for: Econ 215: Money and Banking Spring 2011; T-TH 8:00-9:15

Room PH154

I can be reached at: andrew.a.bossie@gmail.com Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday: 7:00 to 8:00 and 10:40-11:00 If I am not in the classroom (PH154) I will be in the adjunct office in the economics department: PH300B. If it is before 9:00ish you have to call me on the phone outside of the economics department. Usually I can hear you if you knock, as well.

Syllabus

"Reading" Assignments:

Planet Money Episode #235: “A Giant Stone Coin At The Bottom of the Sea” (ITunes: Free 21 min) http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/01/28/131963928/the-friday-podcast-a-giant-stone-coin-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea

Planet Money Episode #216: “How Four Drinking Buddies Saved Brazil” (iTunes: Free 20 min) http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/01/130267274/the-friday-podcast-how-four-drinking-buddies-saved-brazil

March 29:

"The Demand For Treasuries"

This American Life Episode #355: “The Giant Pool of Money” (iTunes: 99cents 1 hour)

Matt Taibbi: The Great American Bubble Machine

Inside Job: On Netflix. I have not found any place to watch this for free.

Homework Assignments:

1. Must be handed in during class.

2. Must be stapled. Assignments not stapled will lose a letter grade

3. You must answer all questions. Failure to answer one question will result in a check minus. Failure to answer more than one question will result in a zero.

4. Rules for Emailing homework assignments (emrgencies only)

a. Must be a single, legible pdf or word document.

b. Must be time stamped before the begining of class on the day it is due.

Homework Assignment #1: Due 2/22

Homework Assignment #2: Due 3/10

Homework Assignment #3: Due 4/12

Homework Assignment #4: Due 4/28

Final Prep:

**I had promised to have the problem set posted on Thursday afteroon, and I did.  Blogger then went down for some reason and they erased all of Thursday's new post.  Anyway they had said they would restore the posts and they haven't.  I apologize, this is kind of terrible timing.

Midterm #2

Sample Final 1

Sample Final 2

We will over over both tests on Tuesday May 17th

There is some overlap with the homework, but I wanted to give you a complete final so you can get a sense of what they are like.  Obviously there are no questions about the readings.

Final Chapters: 5, 6, 10, 14, 15 and readings.