Maggie Fitzgeralds Article Regarding Economic Downturns

  • Pull a news article from a major newspaper or online news like CNN, BBC, and CBS etc. and read it. After reading, please critically summarize the article using the following criteria: Note: The article must be related to the work we have covered that week.
  • Your article MUST not be more than THREE months old.
  • In the first paragraph, indicate the title of the article, author of the article, source of the article, and what the article is about.
  • In the second paragraph, critically relate the article to an economics aspect we have covered in the class that week. Please restrict this to what has already been covered in class for that week – this must be a synthesis of what you have studied in the week’s chapter(s) in the class.
  • In the third paragraph indicate whether you agree with the article or not and why?
  • In the fourth paragraph, summarize the article
  • Produce two pages of this assignment – please double space.
  • Please include the link (URL) for the article you summarized
  • Type the article with 12 font size – work that is not typed will not be accepted (please attach a typed WORD file and not a PDF or google doc). Any PDF/google doc files will not be graded. – send your work through Blackboard. Only work submitted through Blackboard will be graded.
  • Let me know if you have any questions with this assignment.