I am looking for an intersting topic to do a macroeconomics presentation on. Suggestions welcome....?

Answer 1

I think macroeconomics is interesting, maybe I am weird. How about somehow tying interest rates, inflation, unemployment or currency exchange rates to other events.

For example can you prove a cause and effect relationship between movement in the prime interest rate in 2004, 2000, 1996 etc. and the winner of the same year's presidential election?

What, if any, connection can you find between the interest rate on the ten-year US treasury note and movements in the stock of Home Depot or publicly listed home construction companies?

Are you familiar with the Big Mac Index? As McDonald's Big Macs are identical (as much as is possible) at every McD's franchise in the world, the cost of a Big Mac has come to be a measure of the relative strength of the local currency.

Maybe you can compare and contrast personal savings rates in the US vs other countries such as Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan etc. Conventional wisdom is that American save less and borrow more. Is this so?

I am only scratching the surface here.