Economics,Current Affairs and Politics?

Question

I'm dating a guy who likes Economics,Current Affairs and Politics and I really don't know ANYTHING about them,but I would like to learn.

Where should I start learning about these type of things?I need something that's basic and easy to understand?

Answer 1

Read and retain a micro/macro text.  It will take a couple months, but you will know just about everything discussed.  You could take the easy way out and read just casually learn the stuff from the well, though out answers.  In fact, you could go under all the people with top contribute in economics and learn from their post.  But econ is like math and that it builds on, so a question up whether are not we should raise interest rates means you have to know what determines an interest rate as well as what happens when it is hired or lowered.  But, economics is a topic you could probably casually study.  If you just want to talk about economics you can ask me some stuff on line my sn is chrs12684 for AIM.

Answer 2

I don't know if this would help but this is what I do:

I first ask economics questions on here.  I've gained some insight here too.  Now the drawback of asking here can be that it could take hours for an answer, but that's all right.  I still get a good amount of answers and some nicely-put, well argued ones too.

I also read about economics.  I'm currently actually reading a textbook called "Principles of Microeconomics" but yeah that would take a while to go through.  I also am reading "The Economist's View of the World" but that one can be a bit hard to understand.

So you want a basic and easy way right?

Here are some easier ways than the economics book way.

1. As I stated- asking questions here.

2. Reading the New York Times and Washington Post.  The former's more liberal, the later is more conservative.  I usually only have time to read one, but its good to read both.  They're informative and I find that NYT sometimes brings up issues that are usually ignored by the media (sometimes).

   2a. Reading opinion columns on NYT and Washington Post too.  The Washington Post has more conservative writers for their ops and NY has more liberal writers.  However, both have a mix and its good to read their columns (even tho they are biased, its good to see what others think and even if you disagree it can be fun to read).

3. Googling topics can also be helpful.  Also reading the Economist may be good too. I haven't read much of it, but I'm looking at it now.

4. Wikipedia can be a good place.  Just some of it may not be easy to understand and inaccurate, but overall it should be accurate and some of it is not too hard to understand.

Hope this helps ^^ Good luck. Cya.

Answer 3

Try the Economist.  They talk about weekly developments in politics and economics.  When they talk about a certain country's politics, they usually give a short summary of what's going on in that country, so you don't have to know anything about it beforehand.  They assume that you are familiar with very basic economics (e.g., supply and demand) but they'll usually explain anything more advanced than that.

http://www.economist.com/