Housing market: is it safe yet?

This article from the 1st quarter of 2009 indicates further falls are still expected. especially in certain markets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/business/economy/22leonhardt.html?_r=1
Click on the lines in the chart to identify the markets where the ration of median home prices to income are the greatest. Why do you think they differ from city to city?

Take this NFTE survey

Follow this link to take the NFTE pre-course survey. If that doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.nftesurveys.com/survey/289847/163b/
This is an anonymous survey. Please only identify yourself by your initials

Creating Wealth through Trade Survey

Navigate to this link to update the results of our classroom activity: Creating Wealth Through Trade:

Remember the following rules:

1. The bag number you started with is your number throughout the survey: ONLY ENTER YOUR OPINIONS IN YOUR OWN ROW!
2. Only enter whole numbers during each round.
   
3. Your opinion of the value of your 'good' is on a scale of 1 to 5: ONE IS THE WORST and FIVE IS THE BEST.
4. Do not go back and change your opinion of previous rounds of trading.

PowerPoint guidelines for Business plan

Here are ideas of slides you could incorporate into your presentation of your Business to potential investors.

1. Company name, logo/picture & partners company slogan/motto
2. Intro: Why an investment in your company is such a good idea.
3. Describe the business: what does your company do?
4. Describe the market? What is the competition like?
5. Why is your firm going to be successful? What makes you unique?
6. Financial projections (how much $ will your company make & when?)
7. Start-up expenses and capitalization (how much $ do you need to start?
8. What did your break-even analysis reveal about how soon the investors’ money will be earned?
9. Summary: Close the deal: ask for the investment capital.

Costs for your start-up business

Start building a spreadsheet to estimate your costs for your business. They will fall into these three broad categories:

1. FIXED COSTS: Items you have to pay for every month: Rent, Utilities, Insurance, Full-time Employees, Insurance etc.
2. VARIABLE COSTS: Items that vary with your volume of sales: Hot Dogs, Buns, Mustard, etc.
3. START-UP COSTS: Items you need to buy only once (aka one-time costs): Hot dog truck, Cooking utensils, Pots, etc..

Chart interpretation exercise

1. Study these charts.




2. Choose one and upload it onto your Blog




3. Make a comment or draw a conclusion about it.

The red line on the graph from 1929 to 2008 equals the population in the USA between the ages of 45 anf 54.

Post research links here

Use the "Comments" option below to post a link to helpful research sites.

Here is a link to Google document online spreadsheet.
See if you can update our empty columns in sheet1