Hayward "Blah, Blah, Blah" Blog---Just a Retired Social Studies Teacher. That's all...

Economics, civics, constitutional law, Supreme Court cases, AP Economics teaching resources, and classroom lessons by a retired social studies teacher.

The Reserve Requirement is in the news! The Reserve Requirement is in the news!

Can you belong to a United Nations Committee representing women AND bar women in your country from partipating in athletics? Yes, you can, if the price is right...

Today is World Toilet Day! There is still time to join this, umm, movement, so to speak...

Homeless Man returns found laptop and $3,300 cash...Do we have it in us to do the same?

Strategies on how to avoid a patdown at the airport...I think these will work...

Did I scoop the vaunted Financial Times magazine on Big Mac Inflation in China? Yeah, I think I did...:)

The best of Social Enterprise---Bringing clean water FREE to people who need it and making polluters continents away pay for it. Does it get any better?

A Medal of Honor will be presented at the White House tomorrow...Enclosed is a 60 Minutes segment on his actions and a brief description of the event(s) that lead to the awarding of this Medal...

What do two kids selling cookies in a park have to do with the US status in the world of places to do business? Maybe nothing BUT maybe everything...

Analyze this graph for me. Why have 16 to 19 year olds been dropping out of the labor force so dramtically for the last 10 years? Any ideas?

Political Cartoon in NYTIMES that sums up a couple of blog entries I made this week. Perhaps I am getting too cynical...

Fighting terrorism/extremism with Captialism and Markets---Why is this woman not the recipient of a Nobel Prize? Or any prize for that matter...

$27 light bulbs charged to "stimulus funds"--is there "too much money chasing too few contractors" in the ARRA? Just askin'...

5 Myths about the Federal Reserve...The first one is very instructive for Monetary Policy in AP Macroeconomics

Does the early bird get the GPA worm? Study shows morning people have higher GPA's than night owls...What do you think??