Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve ("the Fed") is responsible for formulating and implementing the nation's monetary policy. Monetary policy is government actions to increase or decrease the money supply and change banking r Continue Reading...
" (Redhead 2008) (Manow 2001) These factors are showing how institutional investors are playing an important part in offering additional amounts of liquidity to a variety of businesses. This helps them to address a number of issues they are facing r Continue Reading...
Bailing out the American economy: Banks vs. mortgage-Holders In 2008, the United States teetered on the brink of an economic crisis. If the United States were to suffer a financial meltdown, the global economy could spiral downward in a manner unpre Continue Reading...
As is often the case, the groups most hurt by the crisis are those who are already marginalized -- the working poor. This group is unable to qualify for social services but is likely to have had their hours cut, benefits reduced, or both. They may Continue Reading...
The majority of the population was left extremely poor, lacking food, clothing, housing and medical care. The economy virtually collapsed..." During this time, any formal financial sector was essentially nonexistent, basic infrastructure was lacking Continue Reading...
Macroeconomic Situation in the U.S.: Corrective Fiscal and Monetary Policy December 2007 marked the onset of the Great recession, which ended in mid-2009 but left the U.S. economy struggling through the damage wrought by its severity. Federal polic Continue Reading...
FATCA Regulations and the Effect This Will Have on Financial Institutions The objective of this study is to examine the basic provisions of FATCA Regulations and the effect this will have on financial institutions. Towards this end, this study will Continue Reading...
countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China South Africa, Mexico, Nigeria Turkey identify critically evaluate key economic, political technological factors conditions enabled a 'Rapidly Developing Economy' 'Emerging Economy'. Mexico as a rapidly deve Continue Reading...
Unemployment Rate The Disparity in the Unemployment Rate in the United States A recent article in the Sun Journal by Margaret Fisher (2012) has raised some serious questions as to the true state of the economy. While statistics from the department Continue Reading...
Unfairness This is a short review of literature that discusses the subprime mortgage crisis which many believe had a significant impact on the financial crisis that began in 2008. The discussion will range from how the crisis started and what the ba Continue Reading...
Public Programs Over the last several years, the total amounts of spending for the federal government has been continually brought to the forefront. This is because of the high trade deficits and national debt is having an impact on how various ser Continue Reading...
After unification, Germany's trade surplus shrank for several years, yet West Germany had shown a dramatically high trade surplus during the late 1980's and into the early 1990's, reaching almost $80 billion U.S. dollars in 1988; by 1991, a united G Continue Reading...
High Oil Prices and Effect on the Economy Global oil prices have maintained a creeping trend since 2004, following the 2001 initial oil crisis (Pahl & Richter, 2009). The increase in oil prices and the expected further increase in the future pos Continue Reading...
Many subprime mortgages were made with little documentation of income or ability to repay, or other elements that typically safeguard loans of all types and mortgages especially. There have even been cases of widespread fraud, where documents were Continue Reading...
cell phone market is global in scope, with manufacturers and distributors in most of the developed world. However, there are five top-tier firms that clearly dominate the market: Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericcson. These five firms accou Continue Reading...
Unemployment payments are intended to provide temporary financial relief, whereby eligible recipients are able to sustain until their situation improves. It is important to note that each state has a separate unemployment insurance program that must Continue Reading...
Accounting Snags' stock price has been cut in half the past few years. Investors are concerned that almost every reliable measure of the company's financial health has declined in that period. The worst area is with profitability, as the company's m Continue Reading...
BRIC Country Analysis The objective of this report is to carry out economic analysis of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) and provide the country projected economic growth, country business environment and country risk. The GDP (Gross Domestic Continue Reading...
New Developments Importance of New Developments IMPORTANCE OF NEW DEVELOPMENTS FOR LOCAL ECONOMIES IN USA The major housing boom contributed to the economic growth in U.S. In between 2003 till 2008. The U.S. government received revenues from the d Continue Reading...
By 2050, it is projected that only India would be recording growth rates significantly above 3%. Incomes and Demographics By 2050, despite much faster growth, individuals in those countries are still predicted to be poorer than those persons livin Continue Reading...
What the world needs today is an effective global banking system and a strong and sustainable trade relationship. The recent world recession reflects the collapse of the global banking system. This was the result of heavy advancement of loans and cu Continue Reading...
This investment would become the most prevalent in the period after World War 2 British economic power declined and the U.S. became predominant ("Our History"). While in the paper industry U.S. FDI was not as prevalent till the 20th century after t Continue Reading...
Budgeting, particular during pressing economic periods, is critical to the overall solvency of public organizations. Budgeting and proper forecasting provides a means for organizations to remain viable irrespective of the economic circumstances preva Continue Reading...
Unemployment: A Social Problem? There are few problems that nations face more perplexing than that of unemployment. The condition of being unemployed is in some ways natural to a capitalist system, as businesses try to succeed while spending as few Continue Reading...
Under an efficiency standard it is very clear that the NCEP suggestions for CAFe standards are grossly over stated and should not be considered the final result for lowering CO2 emissions. A more detailed analysis of two specific policies, the cap- Continue Reading...
Sustainable Development: An Analysis Development refers to the progressive transformation of society, and the economy[footnoteRef:1]. Sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of fut Continue Reading...
Distributive Justice and Accounting Practice: Every society has an economic framework governed by laws, policies, and institutions that contribute to distinctive distributions of economic incentives and burdens among the members of the society. The Continue Reading...
2012 Argentina The economic boom that ran until 2011 has officially ended in Argentina. While the rapid growth is largely thought to have been the result of Chinese purchase of grain exports, the Argentine government saw it as a vindication of the Continue Reading...
Economy in the News: Tax Cuts for Business In today's current economic situation within the United States of America, citizens are increasingly interested in facets of the economy that were once able to fly under the radar with minimal notice from e Continue Reading...
For example, the value of some gas to someone that is just trying to mow their lawn is a lot less than with someone who is trying to escape a coming hurricane. However, a dollar-based system is better in that the value of money is much more stable Continue Reading...
Economy, Monetary Policy, and Monopolies "The benchmark interest rate in the United States was last reported at 0.25%," (United States interest rates, 2012, Trading Economics). This is one of the lowest interest rates ever recorded in the history o Continue Reading...
People who work often do more harm than good and fundamentally distort the basic and good human drives to enjoy life and to treat their friends with kindness. Part 2 In their essay "Proletarians and Communists" Marx and Engels point out notable ab Continue Reading...
(Livingston 2012) What are the positive aspects of this theory -explain how markets behave? Why? The positive aspects of this theory are that it identifies changes in the markets early. This helps investors to be able to purchase stocks when every Continue Reading...
Herding in Bank Panics The work of Devenow and Welch (1996) states that the most basic of human instincts is likely to be that of "…imitation and mimicry" which are the primary characteristics in what is known as 'herding' which often specific Continue Reading...
Furthermore, since the CPI is a direct indicator of the strength of the economy, it is a pro-active measurement rather than a reactive one. By compensating via the CPI rather than dollar exchange, what International Cosmetics receives is the abilit Continue Reading...
Cooperative Strategy The criteria for successful Alliances in Emerging Country Economies Economic shifts and globalization caused by the development of emerging economies and the recent financial crisis have affected various industries. Firms must Continue Reading...
Privatization of Social Security A number of things have been happening to give Americans the idea that the social security system in this country is about to collapse. For one, with rising affluence, birth rates fall. This would not be a problem e Continue Reading...
value of money reflects the fact that money diminishes in value over time. A dollar today has more buying power than a dollar tomorrow does. The time value of money holds under conditions where there is inflation. As the price of goods and services Continue Reading...
Monetary Policy Any change in the central back policy or the bank reserves, which is made to influence the interest rates and thus the investment, employment or production, is called the monetary policy. If the monetary authority wants to increase p Continue Reading...
