Course Materials for Mr. Snyder


exam 1 notes for all classes
  • notes for exam 1 all classes  (pdf)
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  • group problems exam 1 all classes  (pdf)
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  • national income accounting formula  (ppt)
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  • Richest countries  (pptx)
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  • Freedom index  (External Link)

  • Sample group discussion  (pdf)
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  • testing center hours  (docx)
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  • Learning support at Valencia  (External Link)

  • DirectConnect   (pdf)
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    • group problems micro
    group problems micro

  • group problems micro  (pdf)
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    • Group problems basic
  • Group problems basic  (pdf)
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    • group problems macro
    group problems macro

  • Group Problems Macro  (pdf)
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    • maco tutorial
  • trade simulation  (xls)
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  • supply and demand  (External Link)

  • national budget simulation  (External Link)

  • Exchange rate Converter  (External Link)

  • Fiat empire  (External Link)

  • extra problems for business cycles  (pdf)
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  • Dollar crisis  (pdf)
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  • Fiat Empire  (External Link)

  • Great Pioneers  (pdf)
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  • Laffer curve  (pptx)
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  • From brettonwoods to world inflation  (pdf)
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  • Paul Solman video  (External Link)

  • Debt  (pdf)
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  • tax rate table  (pptx)
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  • Inflation calculator  (External Link)

  • ECONOMICS OF THE FREE SOCIETY  (External Link)

  • Fiat money inflation in France  (External Link)

  • Reagan vs Mondale  (pptx)
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  • The Ludwig Von Mises Institute  (External Link)

  • Free trade cartoon  (pptx)
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  • What would an item purchased then be worth now?  (docx)
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  • OMNIPOTENT GOVERNMENT  (External Link)

  • Bubble that broke the world  (External Link)

  • M2  (pptx)
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  • practice exam 3 macro questions  (doc)
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  • Corporate tax  (External Link)

  • It’s a jetsons world  (External Link)

  • Krugman calls for space aliens to fix U.S. Economy:  (External Link)

  • America’s great depression:  (External Link)

  • Pursuing the American dream in China  (External Link)

  • Macro tutorial videos  (External Link)

  • PBS Marketplace  (External Link)

  • National employment report  (External Link)

  • Innovation Nation  (External Link)

  • Big mac index  (pptx)
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  • Bloomberg  (External Link)

  • Fed’s beige book  (External Link)

  • Foreigners are our friends  (External Link)

  • Forex calendar  (External Link)

  • Art Laffer  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman: Should education be subsidized? (13 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman roots of the welfare state (16 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman on Robber baron myth (10 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Free to choose T.V.  (External Link)

  • Bernie Sanders on trade (1.17 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Foreigners Are Our Friends (4 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman problems with unemployment (11 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman the nature of inflation (14 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman stimulus and inflation (14 minutes)  (External Link)

  • John Stossel - Government Spending and Debt  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman how to cure inflation (8 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Trump on trade  (External Link)

  • Trump vs Friedman trade (8 min)  (External Link)

  • Nuclear energy  (External Link)

  • Debt slide show  (ppt)
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    micro tutorial
  • production cost tutorial  (xls)
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  • micro tutorial  (External Link)

  • interactive graphs  (External Link)

  • present value tutorial  (External Link)

  • supply and demand tutorial  (External Link)

  • present value table  (jpg)
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  • Labor handout  (doc)
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  • income distribution slide show  (ppt)
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  • practice exam 3 micro  (doc)
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  • labor movie  (External Link)

  • ceo pay slide  (pptx)
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  • Ceo pay  (External Link)

  • dog greets customers  (pptx)
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  • The Ludwig Von Mises Institute  (External Link)

  • Union pay  (External Link)

  • Major Major  (docx)
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  • Micro tutorial videos  (External Link)

  • John Stossel on farm subsidies  (External Link)

  • Barefoot homeless guy apparently has apartment  (docx)
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  • Fast food workers strike for $15 per hour  (External Link)

  • Is capitalism “pro-business”?  (External Link)

  • U.S. Energy Information Administration  (External Link)

  • Spread the wealth  (External Link)

  • Stossel income inequality  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman: should agriculture be subsidized? (11 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman why soaking the rich will not work (4 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman Unions (11 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Friedman - A Conversation On Minimum Wage  (External Link)

  • Will Driverless Cars Make Traffic Cops Irrelevant?  (docx)
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  • EDGAR  (External Link)


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    notes for basic economics eco1000
    links to notes

  • notes for exam 2 eco1000 basic economics  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 3 eco1000 basic economics  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 4 eco1000 basic economics  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 5 eco1000 basic economics  (pdf)
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    Notes for Macro eco2013
  • notes for exam 2 macro  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 3 macro  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 4 macro  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 5 macro  (pdf)
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    notes for micro eco2023
  • notes for exam 2 micro  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 3 micro  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 4 micro  (pdf)
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  • notes for exam 5 micro  (pdf)
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    Extra Credit Articles Macro
  • Samples of excellent reactions  (pdf)
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  • More than just a currency game  (docx)
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  • Do more with fewer workers  (docx)
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  • Fed wants to keep rates low  (docx)
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  • Defending the slumlord  (docx)
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  • The right to national bankruptcy  (docx)
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  • Unilateral Free Trade  (docx)
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  • Petition of the Manufacturers of Candles  (docx)
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  • Price Gouging Saves Lives in a Hurricane  (docx)
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  • The Economics of Dracula  (docx)
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  • The Truth About SwedenCare  (docx)
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  • The great depression of 1946  (External Link)

  • The Economics of ObamaCare  (docx)
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  • Warfare, Welfare and Wonder Woman  (docx)
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  • Minimum Wages and Maximum Rents  (docx)
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  • Yes, minimum wages still increase unemployment  (docx)
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  • No, military spending has not withered away under Obama  (docx)
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  • Government Debt Is Not Like Private Debt  (docx)
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  • Why negative interest rates will fail  (docx)
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  • We need the pain that comes with saving  (docx)
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  • Price controls may be on the way  (docx)
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  • Postal Savings Banks  (docx)
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  • Free trade brings abundance  (docx)
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  • Trump is Wrong on H1  (docx)
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  • Federal Spending Grew More Under Bush and Reagan than Under Obama  (docx)
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  • Trump budget busting  (docx)
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  • Markets create jobs government destroys them  (docx)
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  • Bill Gate's robot tax  (docx)
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  • Did the federal government give Americans clean air?  (External Link)


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    Extra credit Articles Micro
  • Do more with fewer workers  (docx)
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  • How ethanol affects our food supply  (docx)
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  • Poverty has a new address  (docx)
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  • Clamping down on the Joneses  (docx)
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  • Price Gouging Saves Lives in a Hurricane  (docx)
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  • Obama's Economic War on Women  (docx)
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  • Monopoly Through Austrian Lenses  (docx)
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  • The Truth About SwedenCare  (docx)
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  • Minimum Wages and Maximum Rents  (docx)
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  • Yes, minimum wages still increase unemployment  (docx)
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  • The legalization cure  (docx)
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  • Price controls may be on the way  (docx)
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  • A Tariff with Mexico Will Ensure Americans Pay for Border Wall   (docx)
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    Extra Credit Articles eco1000
  • Do more with fewer workers  (docx)
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  • Fed wants to keep rates low  (docx)
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  • Price Gouging Saves Lives in a Hurricane  (docx)
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  • The Truth About SwedenCare  (docx)
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  • The Economics of Dracula  (docx)
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  • The Truth About SwedenCare  (docx)
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  • Minimum Wages and Maximum Rents  (docx)
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  • How Money Disappears in a Fractional-Reserve Money System  (docx)
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  • The legalization cure  (docx)
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  • Price controls may be on the way  (docx)
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  • Postal Savings Banks  (docx)
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    basic tutorial
  • Elasticity  (External Link)

  • Cost  (External Link)

  • Perfect competition  (External Link)

  • Monopoly  (External Link)

  • practice exam 3 basic  (doc)
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  • Supply and demand tutorial  (External Link)

  • French fry production  (External Link)

  • Wal-Mart loses lawsuit over 2 cents:  (External Link)

  • How to find smart thinking online tutoring  (docx)
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  • Information about smart thinking online tutoring  (pdf)
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  • John Stossel (Is greed good?)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman lessons of a pencil (10 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Milton Freidman exhaustible resource (6 minutes):  (External Link)

  • Law of diminishing marginal utility (1.29 min)  (External Link)

  • Diminishing Marginal Returns (6 min)  (External Link)

  • Trump vs Friedman trade (8 min)  (External Link)

  • Production cost table (5 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Economies of scale (3 minutes)  (External Link)

  • Perfect Competition graph (5 min)  (External Link)

  • Business cycles (6.5 min)  (External Link)

  • Supply side Trump Clifford Clinton (4 min.)  (External Link)

  • Scarcity capitalism vs central planning (6 min)  (External Link)

  • PPC (5 min)  (External Link)

  • supply and demand (7 min)  (External Link)

  • Externalities (7 min)  (External Link)

  • Game theory (7 min)  (External Link)

  • Hillary Clinton equal pay (1.5 min)  (External Link)

  • Ivanka Trump equal pay (2.5 min)  (External Link)

  • Hillary Clinton Santa (30 sec)  (External Link)

  • John Stossel - Does Free Trade Exploit the Poor? (6 min)  (External Link)

  • Phones slide show  (pptx)
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  • French vs US currency  (pptx)
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  • Big mac index  (External Link)

  • Bingo card  (pptx)
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  • The Fifteen Dollar Minimum Wage is NONSENSE  (External Link)

  • Universal Basic Income  (External Link)

  • Why Was the WannaCry Attack Such a Big Deal?  (External Link)

  • Robots  (External Link)

  • Walter E Williams - The Effects Of Minimum Wage (9 min)  (External Link)

  • Made in the USA  (External Link)

  • Trump on China currency  (pptx)
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  • EDGAR  (External Link)

  • Milton Friedman - externalities (10 min.)  (External Link)

  • Equifax  (pptx)
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  • CEO pay  (pptx)
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  • Stossel poverty (7 min)  (External Link)

  • Stossel In The Classroom  (External Link)

  • Money and banking  (External Link)

  • Cartel raison (farming)  (External Link)

  • Keynesian vs classical  (External Link)

  • National income (immigrants)  (External Link)

  • Price Gouging  (External Link)

  • Labor (unpaid internship)  (External Link)

  • Stossel both sides  (External Link)

  • Whip Inflation Now  (External Link)

  • Welfare (supply side)  (External Link)

  • John Stossel - Communism vs Capitalism (12 min)  (External Link)

  • Free Trade (19 min)  (External Link)

  • Equality of outcome (14 min)  (External Link)

  • How money walks (map) supply side  (External Link)

  • Obama On The Benefits Of The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)  (External Link)

  • Donald Trump on TPP  (External Link)

  • The Wall Street Crash (money and Banking 58 min)  (External Link)

  • economic debates Soho forum  (External Link)

  • Why some manufacturers are returning to the U.S.  (External Link)

  • Trump on China currency  (External Link)

  • Big mac index 2017  (pptx)
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  • For Trump, China is at the heart of U.S. economic problems  (External Link)

  • The Phillips Curve  (External Link)

  • Phillips curve Spain  (pptx)
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  • Phillips curve Lucus  (pptx)
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  • Trump: Some Welfare Recipients Make More Than Person Working  (External Link)

  • Meet the Trump trade adviser whose tariff policy is about to be tested (PBS national income)  (External Link)

  • Trump takes credit for the good economy. Here's what economists say (PBS supply side)  (External Link)

  • For Trump, China is at the heart of U.S. economic problems  (External Link)

  • Why the U.S. pays more for health care than the rest of the world (PBS) (elasticity)  (External Link)

  • Random number generator###############  (External Link)

  • Making Sen$e: Rich Shopper, Poor Shopper (PBS) consumer choice  (External Link)

  • Seattle head tax opposition gathers at City Hall (economic institutions)  (External Link)

  • Economic Profit  (External Link)

  • Why your summer getaway is staffed by foreign workers (PBS national income)  (External Link)

  • How Trump’s economic proposals offer a vision from the past (PBS economic institutions)  (External Link)

  • More part-time workers face instability, long hours(PBS) (business cycles part 1)  (External Link)

  • Stress, Burnout Taking Toll on Many U.S. Workers (PBS) (Business cycles)  (External Link)

  • deficit slide show  (ppt)
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  • A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That Free-Market Competitiveness Is Best for America  (External Link)

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