Hi! I am a teacher of IB Economics and Humanities at ISS International School located in Singapore. Fittsonomics is my blog for discussing economics in the news and other current events. Click the Economic resources for class resources.
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Hello Mr. Fitts, It's Oriol again. I checked out the Groundhog Day movie on youtube and it seems an interesting take on the classic 'trapped-in-the-moment' movie genre. By the way, I think that there's a Western which you could relate more to economics than the one you showed us in class the other day. It's about a person who is given a million dollar check by two old wealthy men who are making a bet. He is not allowed to cash it in and has to return it at the end of a certain amount of time to the two men; if he succeeds he will be given a honorable, well-paying job. He proceeds to attempt to live off his one million dollar check without ever cashing it in, and creates upheaval in Wall Street by pretending to be interested in investing in certain firms. (I used the inflation calculator on http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ and found out 1 million in 1875 is 19.6 million now!) Thought you might find it interesting (it's a very good movie with an original concept behind it). See you in class.
Hello Mr. Fitts,
ReplyDeleteIt's Oriol again. I checked out the Groundhog Day movie on youtube and it seems an interesting take on the classic 'trapped-in-the-moment' movie genre. By the way, I think that there's a Western which you could relate more to economics than the one you showed us in class the other day. It's about a person who is given a million dollar check by two old wealthy men who are making a bet. He is not allowed to cash it in and has to return it at the end of a certain amount of time to the two men; if he succeeds he will be given a honorable, well-paying job. He proceeds to attempt to live off his one million dollar check without ever cashing it in, and creates upheaval in Wall Street by pretending to be interested in investing in certain firms. (I used the inflation calculator on http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ and found out 1 million in 1875 is 19.6 million now!) Thought you might find it interesting (it's a very good movie with an original concept behind it). See you in class.