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Title Grade Date
San Francisco Area Transit Strike

STANDARD: 8

 6-8, 9-12 09/15/1997
Babysitter Shortage in Washington, D.C.

STANDARD: 7

 6-8, 9-12 09/22/1997
Beanie Baby Prices Soar

STANDARD: 7, 8

 3-5, 6-8 12/08/1997
Martin Luther King Jr. Day

STANDARD: 13, 15

 6-8, 9-12 01/18/1998
Mad Cattlemen Sue Oprah

STANDARD: 8

 9-12 01/26/1998
$15 Billion to Host the Summer Olympic Games: Is it worth it?

STANDARD: 2

 9-12 02/02/1998
Are the Best Things in Life Free?

STANDARD: 1, 2

 9-12 02/16/1998
Changes to the CPI Index

STANDARD: 19

 9-12 03/02/1998
Clinton Focuses on Environmental Issues in Botswana

STANDARD: 1

 9-12 04/06/1998
Bank Mergers Lead to Greater Business Concentration

STANDARD: 9

 9-12 04/16/1998
Airline Mergers, Software Industry Monopolies: Contestable Markets?

STANDARD: 9

 9-12 05/11/1998
Do You Always Own Your Own Private Property?

STANDARD: 14

 9-12 08/17/1998
Stock Prices Tumble

STANDARD: 7, 8

 9-12 09/07/1998
Malaysian Government Introduces Currency Controls

STANDARD: 7

 9-12 09/14/1998
U.S. Senate Mulls Over Bankruptcy Legislation

STANDARD: 4, 12

 9-12 09/21/1998
U.S. Senate Rejects Minimum Wage Bill

STANDARD: 8, 13, 16

 9-12 09/28/1998
Fed Orders Interest Rate Cut

STANDARD: 20

 9-12 10/12/1998
Eco-terrorism in Vail, CO

STANDARD: 4

 9-12 10/26/1998
Economy in Transition: The Ukraine

STANDARD: 3

 9-12 11/30/1998
The American Standard of Living - For Better or For Worse

STANDARD: 9, 13

 9-12 12/09/1998
If You Hear a Hoot, Then This Site is Kaput

STANDARD: 17

 9-12 12/22/1998
One Country / Two Systems

STANDARD: 3

 9-12 12/28/1998
The Euro Makes its Debut

STANDARD: 7

 9-12 01/04/1999
To Keep the Strike Going or to End It? That Was the Question

STANDARD: 4

 9-12 01/25/1999
Money is What Money Does

STANDARD: 11

 9-12 02/12/1999
Rationing Transplants: An Ethical Problem

STANDARD: 5, 7, 8

 9-12 02/19/1999
Economic Indicators

STANDARD: 18

 9-12 03/12/1999
US and EU Go Bananas Over Trade

STANDARD: 5, 6

 9-12 03/19/1999
Social Security Gains Two More Years

STANDARD: 20

 9-12 04/16/1999
Population Growth: Friend or Foe?

STANDARD: 1

 9-12 04/23/1999
Jesse 'The Body' Wants to Give Money Away!

STANDARD: 10, 12

 9-12 04/30/1999
Y2K, Currency, Banking, and the Fed

STANDARD: 11

 9-12 05/10/1999
Economic Freedom, Political Freedom: Their Meaning, Their Results

STANDARD: 4, 5

 9-12 05/25/1999
The Early 1980s: A Tough Time For Home Builders and Mortgage Bankers

STANDARD: 12, 20

 9-12 06/10/1999
Time Value of Money

STANDARD: 12

 6-8, 9-12 07/30/1999
The Road to Emerald City Is Paved with Good Intentions

STANDARD: 19, 20

 9-12 09/09/1999
Paraffin-alia

STANDARD: 1

 3-5 09/15/1999
Market Failures and Government Regulation: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?

STANDARD: 11, 12

 9-12 09/19/1999
Hey, Mom! What's for Breakfast?

STANDARD: 1

 3-5 09/24/1999
Tapped Dry: How Do You Solve a Water Shortage?

STANDARD: 3

 9-12 10/04/1999
National Parks: Only You Can Prevent the Coming Crisis

STANDARD: 4

 9-12 10/08/1999
The Wizard of Oz Visits Japan

STANDARD: 12, 19, 20

 9-12 10/18/1999
Trish and Scott's Big Adventure: An Investigation of Regional Housing Costs

STANDARD: 8

 6-8, 9-12 11/03/1999
The Economics of the Family Farm

STANDARD: 6, 8, 13

 9-12 11/04/1999
I'll Trade You a Bag of Chips, Two Cookies, and $60,000 for Your Tuna Fish Sandwich

STANDARD: 7, 8

 9-12 11/04/1999
Who Knows What Inefficiencies Lurk in the Hearts of Rent Controlled Housing Markets? The Shadow Market Knows!

STANDARD: 7, 8

 9-12 11/11/1999
Economic Forecasting: An Internet WebQuest

STANDARD: 18

 9-12 11/13/1999
Let's Talk Turkey: The Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner

STANDARD: 18, 19

 9-12 11/16/1999
The Opportunity Cost of a Lifetime

STANDARD: 1

 6-8 11/27/1999
NAFTA: Are Jobs Being Sucked Out of the United States?

STANDARD: 19

 9-12 11/28/1999
An Entreduction

STANDARD: 14

 3-5 11/29/1999
The Big Mac Index

STANDARD: 7

 9-12 11/30/1999
I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?

STANDARD: 6, 11

 3-5 12/10/1999
Old Business, New Business

STANDARD: 1, 6

 3-5 12/17/1999
A Penny Saved is a Penny at 4.7% Earned

STANDARD: 10

 6-8 12/19/1999
Frontier Specialists

STANDARD: 6

 6-8 12/19/1999
What Does the Nation Consume?

STANDARD: 18

 6-8 12/20/1999
Bill, Are You Bogus?

STANDARD: 6

 3-5, 6-8 12/21/1999
Changes in Change

STANDARD: 6

 3-5 12/23/1999
Pennies Make Cents

STANDARD: 6, 11

 3-5 12/24/1999
US History: Inventors & Entrepreneurs

STANDARD: 14

 3-5, 6-8 12/28/1999
The Story of Jack and the Bank Stalk

STANDARD: 10, 11

 3-5 12/31/1999
How Long Is Your Life?

STANDARD: 13

 9-12 01/18/2000
Where Does the Money Come From?

STANDARD: 16

 6-8 01/18/2000
Don't Fence Me Out! (Barriers to Trade)

STANDARD: 5

 6-8 01/19/2000
Save the Moonflowers

STANDARD: 1

 9-12 02/11/2000
The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires?

STANDARD: 6, 8

 9-12 02/20/2000
The Economics of Professional Sports: If You Build It, Will They Come?

STANDARD: 4, 17

 9-12 02/20/2000
Do You Have a Yen to Go to College?

STANDARD: 7, 8

 9-12 02/25/2000
What's Happening in the New Economy?

STANDARD: 15, 18

 9-12 03/04/2000
'Be All You Can Be'...For Minimum Wage?

STANDARD: 1, 18

 9-12 03/23/2000
'You Paid How Much for That Ticket?'

STANDARD: 9

 9-12 03/30/2000
Income: It Ain't Where You Start, It's What You Got, and Where You End

STANDARD: 10

 9-12 04/11/2000
Baseball Economics 101

STANDARD: 2, 4, 5, 13

 6-8, 9-12 05/12/2000
Is the Price of Gasoline Really Too High?

STANDARD: 7, 8, 9

 9-12 06/28/2000
Enlarging the European Union

STANDARD: 2, 5, 7, 10

 9-12 08/18/2000
Economics of Internet Access

STANDARD: 8

 9-12 08/30/2000
The Economics of Income: Which 'Wood' You Choose?

STANDARD: 6

 9-12 09/15/2000
The Economics of Income: If You're So Smart, Why Arent You Rich?

STANDARD: 8, 15

 9-12 09/15/2000
The Economics of Homebuying

STANDARD: 2, 4

 9-12 09/15/2000
The Return of Sacagawea

STANDARD: 11

 6-8 09/15/2000
The Economics of Income: The Rich Nations Mystery

STANDARD: 1, 6, 18

 9-12 09/15/2000
The Economics of Interest Rates

STANDARD: 10, 12

 9-12 09/15/2000
Buying vs. Renting

STANDARD: 2, 4

 9-12 09/29/2000
Should I Use Cash or Credit?

STANDARD: 2

 9-12 09/29/2000
Water, Water, Everywhere

STANDARD: 1

 K-2 10/19/2000
Eureka!

STANDARD: 14

 K-2 10/20/2000
On The Money

STANDARD: 11

 K-2 10/24/2000
The Costs of Credit

STANDARD: 11, 12

 9-12 10/30/2000
Increasing Productivity

STANDARD: 15

 K-2 10/30/2000
Off to Interactive Island

STANDARD: 1, 2

 K-2 11/01/2000
Nothing to Buy

STANDARD: 1, 2, 3

 3-5 11/01/2000
Car Shopping

STANDARD: 3, 4

 3-5 11/01/2000
The Changing Face of Money

STANDARD: 11

 K-2 11/02/2000
The Mystery of the Voters Who Don't Vote

STANDARD: 1, 2

 9-12 11/08/2000
The Role of Government: The National Debt vs. The Deficit

STANDARD: 20

 9-12 11/20/2000
The Controversial School Voucher Issue

STANDARD: 2, 3, 16

 9-12 12/08/2000
Online Music

STANDARD: 10, 14, 15

 6-8 12/12/2000
Online Mayhem I: Metallica Versus Napster

STANDARD: 10

 9-12 12/12/2000
The Role of Government: The Federal Government and Fiscal Policy

STANDARD: 20

 9-12 01/08/2001
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