1. Warm Up – May 15 Answer the following questions on a post it:
1. What is the difference between fiscal policy and monetary policy?
2. How can the Federal Reserve adjust interest rates so that banks are able to lend more to people?
3. How can the Federal Reserve adjust interest rates so that banks are able to lend less to people? Why would the Fed Reserve want to do this?
4. What is the term to describe the world becoming one single market?
5. What innovations in technology have led to increased globalization?
6. What is a company doing in a foreign direct investment?
7. What is a transnational corporation?

2. Pros and Cons of Globalization Article
Download the “Pros and Cons of Globalization” Article from my website and answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What is globalization?
2. Globalization can be summed up as a long-term change towards greater international cooperation in what different areas?
3. What factors have made globalization possible?
4. What 20th Century innovations made globalization easier? Which 21st Century innovations made modern globalization a reality?
5. What are the benefits of globalization?
6. What are the negatives of globalization?

3. The Anti-Globalization Movement
Unit 7: the economy
The Anti-Globalization Movement

4. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Economic globalization increased the gap between the Global North and the Global South
Clear division in the human community = the rich industrialized countries (mostly in Europe and North America) versus everyone else

5. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
This widening gap has been evident in great differences in:
Incomes
Medical care
Availability of clean drinking water
Educational and employment opportunities
Access to the Internet

6. “Anti - Globalization” Movement
Agree that economic globalization has:
Lowered labor standards
Devastated the environment
Prevented poor countries from protecting themselves against financial speculators
Ignored local cultures
Disregarded human rights
Enhanced global inequality
Favored only the interests of large corporations and rich countries – created a rich Global North and a poor Global South
Antiglobalization Activists

7. TOD – May 15
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What countries in the world are in the Global North? What countries in the world are in the Global South? Which side benefits the most from Globalization?
2. What are three areas that the gap between the Global North and South is most evident?
3. The Anti-Globalization movement views globalization as a movement that only favors which countries?