Fed Essay Information - What Are The Causes of Inequality?

Research: The links below are good places to get you started with your research and thinking about your thesis statement. You need good research and facts to back up your arguments. Before that, however, look over the tips below for a good essay:

• Thesis clearly presented
• Paragraphs well organized
• Effective transitions between paragraphs
• Argument follows a logical progression
• Strong evidence used to support thesis
• Sentence structure
• Punctuation
• Spelling
• Page numbers
• Bibliography and parenthetical references or footnotes follow a consistent style (MLA Format - use Easybib.com for citation)
• Cover includes required information
• First written page with title and no name
• Copy can be easily read—type is clear and dark

Sources: First check out the Fed Essay Website Bibliography Here. 

Here are some other sources about income inequality, as a serious problem and the causes:

• Income Inequality in 16 Charts.
• Globalization is increasing inequality. 
• The real cause of Inequality in the US. 
• Inequality: Growing Apart.
• Breaking Down the Causes of Inequality in the US. 
• How income taxes increase inequality. 
• Why College is Necessary but gets you nowhere. 
• Globalization and inequality.
• How welfare increases inequality. 
• Obamacare gives incentives to work less, not more
• The welfare cliff: How work is punished. 
• Economic mobility hasn't changed in 50 years.
• Economic mobility in the US: Not good.
• Education and inequality. 
• Taxes on the rich have decreased and caused more inequality.
• Do Fed policies (QE) cause inequality?
• The Fed and inequality.. Another here. 
• The Odds are stacked against the poor. Or why the poor stay poor. 
• How poor neighborhoods lead to generational inequality. 
•  How "rent-seeking" causes inequality. 
• (New) How less Economic Freedom means more inequality. 
• (New) Early Education inequality causes economic inequality. 

Articles arguing income inequality is actually overstated: 

• Negative Effects of the Minimum Wage. 
• Median Income is falling only because households work less. 
• Myths of Inequality. 
• Income inequality has not actually increased over the last 50 years.

Possible Fed Essay Topics: "The Future of the Fed"

Before choosing a topic, be sure to read the topic primer here.

1. Replace the Federal Reserve with the Gold Standard.
2. Stay the Course. ex. - No economic depressions since the Great Depression. We need a "lender of last resort" in a financial crisis.
3. Alternatives to the Fed: Use money besides the US Dollar: (ex. Bitcoin)

Fed Essay Sources

Click on the following articles for good info regarding your topic.
A good place to start: Resources on the Fed Essay page. Click Here.

• History of the Federal Reserve. 
• The Fed underestimates the financial crisis of 2008.
•  Did the Fed cause the housing bubble? 
•  A new bubble in stocks due to the Fed?
• Maybe the Fed isn't so powerful after all?
•  Bernanke Defends Fed Response to financial crisis. 
• The Fed Saved a 2nd Great Depression. 

End/Reform the Fed and the Gold Standard articles:

•  End the Fed? 
• Gold vs. The Fed: The record is clear. Gold wins
• Should we return to the Gold Standard?
• End the Fed? Now what? 
• Alternatives to the Fed.
• The Fed deserves blame for the financial crisis
• Fed assets reach $4 Trillion. 
• Will Bitcoin replace the Federal Reserve? 
• Limited Purpose Banking.
• GOOD! Ideas for reforming the Fed.
• Fed Policy hasn't worked to solve the financial crisis. 

Videos: 

• What is a gold standard? 
• Should we end the Fed? How can it be done, explained. 
• "60 Minutes" Interview w/ Fed Chair Ben Bernanke part 1
• "60 Minutes" Interview w/ Fed Chair Ben Bernanke part 2

FED ESSAY CONTEST IS HERE! TOPIC: THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S NEXT 100 YEARS.

Please click here for more info on the topic, and to read articles to help you write your essay. Due March 14th.

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