ECON 200 was the first economics class that I have taken and a memorable class. My professor, Joshua Jacobs, was an engaging lecturer who connected the class concepts to real fluctuations that were happening in the economy. An important component of the course was the article responses, which required us to pick a newspaper article and explain the economics behind it. This article response explains how a tax on Chinese tariffs reduced consumer’s consumption of foreign goods in the US, causing inefficiency in the market. These article responses helped develop my understanding of the content and its relevance to real-world events. To this day, I regularly find topics mentioned in the news that we studied in ECON 200.