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Happy Thanksgiving from the Learning Center! 🦃🍁

💡📈This week's Next Level Econ worksheet guides students through applied practice with externalities and marginal benefits. ✍️Practice key concepts appropriate for introductory college and secondary honors courses, with an emphasis on building critical economic reasoning skills.

☀️ This week’s #MondayMorningEconomist: Classroom Edition looks at why .99 pricing survives even as pennies disappear and digital payments dominate. 🤔📲 Students explore how left-digit bias shapes decisions and how varying state tax rates make flexible pricing essential. 💲📈

💼 How do businesses decide what to produce, or what to pay for resources? This week’s Next Level Econ worksheet tackles profit-maximizing behavior in factor markets, with hands-on practice for college intro & honors HS students. ✨ Build next-level econ skills!

⚾️ This week’s Monday Morning Economist turns baseball into an econ masterclass! Students explore marginal thinking, opportunity cost, and the sunk cost fallacy through “The 18-Inning Lesson in Economics” and The Tradeoff World Series game. 📚 Link in the comments!

Financial Empowerment Friday 🌟 Students ask if being a social media influencer is a realistic career, explore how passion creates value, and pitch ways to turn hobbies into value for others. 📱🧠 🔗 teachers.fee.org → Products → Personal Finance

What happens when solving one global problem makes another worse? 🤔 In this week’s FT Classroom Edition lesson, students explore how policymakers might allocate $1T between poverty relief and climate action. ⚖️ 🔗 teachers.fee.org → Products → FT Classroom Edition

🥤 Grab your Slurpee for this week’s Economic Marvels on 7-Eleven! 🏪💰 From $72B in sales to 84,000 stores worldwide, it’s the global icon of convenience. 🌎 Discover how innovation + 24/7 strategy turned late-night snacks into big-time success! 📊 #EconEd #FEE #EconomicMarvels

Take your lesson to the next level with this week's worksheets on factor markets! ✏️📊 🔗 Sign-in or create a free account @ teachers.fee.org → Products → Next Level Econ

This MME Classroom Edition dives into the battle for grocery shelf space in “Taking a Bite Out of the Competition.” ☀️🛒 Students see how freedom, innovation, and property rights fuel competition. 📈 Explore at teachers.fee.org → Products → Monday Morning Economist

You know what’s scarier than ghosts? Bad financial decisions! 😱 Our Financial Empowerment Friday lesson exposes the hidden risks of Buy Now, Pay Later loans. We're teaching students how to avoid debt traps and apply responsible spending strategies.

Why do governments fund private mega-projects (stadiums, data centers) with public money, even when benefits are weak? 🤔 Our Think Like an Economist: Classroom Edition is tackling the hidden costs of corporate subsidies this week.

💀 Each fall, Spirit Halloween rises from the retail grave—turning empty stores into booming hotspots. With 1,450+ locations and $1B+ in revenue, this ghostly giant proves that creativity can bring dead space back to life. Explore this Economic Marvel of Halloween-onomics! 🕸️💰

🚨 FINAL EXAM CRUNCH TIME? 🚨 We've got the ultimate review for: Monopolies, Price Discrimination, & Perfect Competition! Practice problems included.

Fired college coaches still get MILLIONS in buyouts. Why?! 🤯💰 Our new MME Classroom Edition lesson uses a fun "Four Downs" game 🏈 to tackle this, comparing those massive private contracts to public unemployment insurance.

Even in challenging times, there are reasons to stay optimistic. 🌤️ This Financial Times x FEE lesson explores the innovations, resilience, and progress that keep the global economy moving forward.

Frédéric Bastiat’s words remind us to look deeper at the incentives behind government action, and the unseen costs that follow. 💡 #Economics #FEE #Bastiat #TeachersOfInstagram #EconomicEducation

From “no such thing as a free lunch” 🍽️ to elastic demand taking a tumble 📉 , economics is full of lessons that stick (and sometimes fall dramatically). Bring these classic concepts to life in your classroom with ready-to-use lessons from FEE!

🌟 Last week, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. Mokyr's work highlights the importance of technological innovation and free markets for sustained economic growth. 💡 Visit teachers.fee.org for more!

“Have faith in what free men will accomplish.” 💡 Leonard Read reminds us that when creativity and freedom flow without obstruction, progress follows naturally. #FEE #LeonardRead #FreeMarkets #EconomicEducation