This is another consolidation exercise for AD/AS which takes students through the Irish economic miracle of the 1990s through to the housing collapse during the credit crunch. The story ends in 2011, because it has all of the relevant AD/AS factors covered, but you could extend it to the present date easily enough – the charts are all from trading economics (http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ireland/indicators).

This is again probably best run as a pairs/small group based exercise, so that they can argue about what is right.

At the end, there is a link to a BBC video report looking at the impact of the housing collapse – linking back to the section on investment.