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Research Tools and Techniques: Refining Your Online and Offline Searches , with WiFi Classroom, December 15, 2009 Word Workshop : Writing for Government and Business: Critical Thinking and Writing , January 28, 2010 Update on The 111th Congress, 2010 , January 29, 2010 Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress , February 10, 2010 Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process , February 11, 2010 Strategies for Working with Congress: Effective Communication and Advocacy on Capitol Hill , February 18, 2010 The President's Budget , February 23, 2010 The Defense Budget , February 26, 2010 Capitol Hill Workshop , March 3-5, 2010 Online Education and the Market for Superstar Teachers - "I have argued that universities will move to a superstar market for teachers in which the very best teachers use on-line instruction and TAs to teach thousands of students at many different universities. The full online model is not here yet but I see an increasing amount of evidence for the superstar model of teaching. At GMU some of our best teachers are being recruited by other universities with very attractive offers and some of our most highly placed students have earned their positions through excellence in teaching rather than through the more traditional route of research." The implausible Quantity Theory - "Suppose the gold industry was a government monopoly, and also suppose the demand for gold was unit elastic. Now suppose the government monopoly suddenly doubled the supply of gold. What would happen to the relative price of gold in terms of other goods? It would fall in half, wouldn’t it? And that is true regardless of whether or not gold has any role as money. We would get a sort of “gold inflation.” Stuff would cost more in gold terms. But not in dollar terms.

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