DadaEconomy

Summarize the following - What is the purpose of a Political Party primaries? Who is the most interesting candidate so far? Who would you vote for ? and which candidate do you definitely not want to see win. Post this in your economics blog.

The purpose of a political party primaries is to elect the next president of the United States.
 The most interesting candidate so far is Hillary Clinton. Clinton would be the great person to lead America best she very smart and tough to lead the U.S.

 I would vote for Hillary Clinton.
Trump should not win, He is not the example of the free world like the U.S.

Presidential Priorities

If you were President - what do you think, we should spend on the following.  What percentage of your country’s resources would you spend on the following?

__20_____ National Defense

___18____ Roads, Mass Transit, Airplanes

___14____ Health Care

___25____ Education

_____5__ Social Security (for retired people)

_____2__ Welfare (people unable to work, or unemployed)

____25___ Consumer Goods

_______ Other:____________________________________________

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100 -      remember your numbers / percentages should add up to 100.

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What were your priorities (most important)? Explain why? What received the least amount of resources? Why? 

Then create another blog post - called Commodities Pricing  

4. - Natural Resources - Commodities.

Now go to the following links:
1)   http://money.cnn.com/data/commodities/ or 2)  http://www.cnbc.com/commodities/

Review the charts, then list one item from each category that has gone up in price and one item that has gone down in price.

Natural Resources	One that has increased	One that has decreased
Energy
Metal
Agriculture
Livestock

Summarize -  Does anything surprise you ?  If you were a car maker - which commodities which you most be interested in? 

If you were a Corn Farmer which would you be interested in? What if you were Cattle Rancher ?