Go-getters

Some interesting advice for our juniors and seniors in the job hunt.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123845358462571299.html

Economics club next meeting

The next meeting of the Econ club will be Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 5:30pm in 114 Wimberly Hall.
We will be discussing the public-private investment partnership and the Wall Street Journal's forum on the future of finance. You can find the articles and videos from this forum on the Wall Street Journal website. They came up with 20 principles that should be the basis for finance in the future. You can find them here.

Econ Club By-Laws

Josh Lieder and Andy Cowan have started work on a proposal for the Econ Club By-laws.
If you are interested in working on the bylaws, a small group is meeting at the cybercafe on Thursday, March 26 at 5:30pm.

You can find the proposed bylaws here.
http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/birkeland/Econ-Club.htm

A Rare Interview with the Chairman

Ben Bernanke was interviewed on 60 minutes this week.
Part I

Watch CBS Videos Online

Part II

Watch CBS Videos Online

Frank: Lecture

It must have been the pizza....

Given the incentives of free pizza and stimulating discussion, approximately 40 students met as the newly-forming Econ club. We had more people than we expected and great discussions. If you missed it and would like to learn more about it, visit the facebook group: UW-L Economics Students or talk with Professors Birkeland, Brooks, or Knowles.

Economics Gets Sexy

NPR says Economics is getting sexier:

All Things Considered, March 1, 2009 · At Ohio's Oberlin College, registration in undergrad economics classes is up 25 percent this year, and the chair of the department says he's never seen anything like it. Host Robert Smith finds a similar surge in the classrooms of American University and across the country. So is undergraduate economics getting sexier? In a word: yes.