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From now on, to submit your news summaries, go to Blackboard and submit them into the "news summaries" section.  What you have to do is to find the right forum for the week and create a new Thread within the forum for your comment.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Catch up with the Economic News

Use the comment box to this post to submit your news summaries.  To find news, you may use any valid and reputable news source.  For example you can go to http://news.google.com and search for “economy”.  Click on something that seems interesting to you and write about it.  Don't use a story that has been used by someone else.  

• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post (but not as the title.  Come up with an interesting title).

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) any time before Sunday, September 16, 5:59pm.  Then you're done!

http://m.jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-09-01/story/mitt-romney-promises-roaring-us-economy-landing-rally

This article talks about the past Republican convention in Tampa Florida where Mitt Romney accepted the Republican’s acceptance for president. Here in this article Mitt Romney and his running-mate Paul Ryan had a speech about the future of America’s economy if they were to be elected. In the speech Romney showed evidence that he knows how to create jobs by presenting job data where he created tens of thousands jobs as governor of Massachusetts. In Romney’s speech he presented five points on how he will repair America’s economy. The five points consisted of running on American energy with American reserves, fix failing schools, developing trade agreements with South America, cut the federal deficit, and to relax tax rates for small business owners so they may strive. Romney ended his speech by saying if the five points are achieved then America will be begin to have a working economy again.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/08/31/eurozone-jobless-rate-stuck-at-record-high-11-in-july/

The article talks about how the unemployment rate is stuck at a record high in the Eurozone. In July the Eurozone hit an all time high unemployment rate of 11.3%. The European Union’s statistical agency showed that 88,000 people were unemployed, which adds up to a total of 18 million. This is because of governments and companies cut payrolls to try and deal with the debt and consumer spending. The unemployment rate increased a total of 1.2% since last year. Spain and Greece are at the center of the debt crisis, so this causes these two countries to have the highest unemployment rate in the Eurozone. These two countries are even higher in youth unemployment compared to other countries in the Eurozone.

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• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post.

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) any time before Sunday, September 2, 11:59pm.  Then you're done!