Economics 6th Hour

The U.S stock market in New York was closed on monday due to Hurricane Sandy

Just because the unemployment rate rose only by 0.1 pct, doesn't mean that America lost jobs. Actually, since more people have started looking for jobs, there are more people unemployed because there are more people who are actually trying to get a job now.

This article relates to economics because, when these big companies go to court they are using up a lot of tax dollars that are payed by the citizens. The reason why that bothers people is because now these big companies want the court case to be shut off from the public, who are paying for these cases to even be in court.

Due to the negative reviews on the ipad mini the apple stock market has not been doing too well.

This article talks about how hurricane sandy has cause a big effect on finding gas. A lot of gas stations aren't working because of the hurricane which caused hour long lines in order the fill up cars with gas.

The storm caused many gas stations, just like every other electrical usage, to lose power. Only 40% of about 3,000 stations in New Jersey are able to use power to pump gas, and in New York 30% of 1,000 are operational. Because of the shortage, there are very long lines of cars waiting at the running gas stations to pump their gas.

There were more people that turned out fot the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S. For the Apple Industry, only the iPhone 4 (which drew 1,300 people) and iPad 2 (which drew 1,190 people) had bigger crowds. Before the doors opened, only 800 people of New York were in line

Candy corn and most candy in general is starting to cost 3% more this year, because of the rising price of corn oils and fructose corn syrup. These corn prices are causing not only candy, but other foods such as bacon and apples to rise in price too.

this describes how our government effects our economy

This will help the economy to grow and recover and once demand rises then companies will have to create more jobs, and the unemployment rate will rise if this happens.

With Christmas just around the corner people are stocking their shelves with new Christmas CDs.

With hurricane Sandy and all the storms New York has had to pay lots of money to help save the people, They can not be spending more money on a marathon when they are already raising money to help save victims of Sandy. They cannot afford more money for this marathon. Although the marathon does bring joy to the people and they could really use it, it will be hard to help fund it.

unemployment has a lot to do with the economy. Over the past few years unemployment has been at its highest.

Black Friday is a very important day for stores because it is the day some of them have the most sales. A lot of stores relay on black friday to help them with their sales for the year.

Different banks are earning growth in the stock market this quarter. The article relates to economics because it mentions the Federal Reserve and the Stock market.