Privatization has been an issue if much debate during this presidential election. In particular, privatization as it relates to social security reform has been the primary focus. The purpose of this discussion is the provide arguments for privatizati Continue Reading...
Macroeconomics The Basic Methodology of Economic Analysis Economics analyzes activities in the, on the whole economy, for example inclination in unemployment, output, prices, as well as foreign trade. Once such inclination is that economic analysis Continue Reading...
Economic Implications of Tax Cut With Clinton set to make tax cuts part of her platform for the 2016 election campaign, the implications of a tax cut on the U.S. economy are something to consider (Meckler). However, the fact that the political elit Continue Reading...
Russian Public Debt Downgrade The Russian economy is heading into a deep recession: the projected average growth over the next three years has been estimated at 0.5%. The years of the Russian oil boom are fading fast and tensions continue to rise wi Continue Reading...
North American Free Trade Agreement is one of the most important and influential international relationship formed between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, creating the largest free trade region in the world. The following pages analyze NAFTA's influence Continue Reading...
Greece Bailout Roadmap The Greek government has faced an ongoing fiscal crisis for the past several years. Recently, for the third time, its Eurozone partners have been compelled to offer a bailout to the country. This is done to stabilize Greece's Continue Reading...
Foreign Monetary System A monetary system is any structure initiated by the government and mandated to issue currency, acknowledged as the medium of exchange by its citizens and governments of other nations. The central bank manages the monetary sys Continue Reading...
Stock Price Trading Value and Stock Price relationship between trading volume and price In their 2005 article, Gunduz and Hatemi-J have explored the relationship between stock price and volume by using information from the major stock markets of C Continue Reading...
Investors Corporate Office Greek Crisis- Opportunity Board of Directors The Greek financial crisis is rooted in two decades of profligate spending which has ballooned the country's debt to GDP ratio to 124.9% of GDP in 2010 (The Wall Street Jour Continue Reading...
Lessons from the Great Depression, William Watson is comparing the current recession with the time frame between 1939 and 1940. This is when Britain and France had declared war on Germany after its invasion of Poland. However, no real hostilities to Continue Reading...
America faced several difficult challenges in its quest to improve its infrastructure during the years leading up to 1860. First of all America was a very young country which consisted of 16 states with sparse populations spread out over large areas Continue Reading...
Taxation and double taxation risks Australia imposes taxes on resident economic entities and the Australian-sourced income of non-residents. However, "Australia's capacity to tax non-residents may be limited where the non-resident is resident in a Continue Reading...
They state that the FOREX market represents "the market in which participants are able to buy, sell, exchange and speculate on currencies. The forex markets is made up of banks, commercial companies, central banks, investment management firms, hedge Continue Reading...
"Forecasts by Moody's Economy.com now use a 20 percent drop in median existing-home prices from their 2005 peak as a baseline, with prices weakening through at least mid-2009" (Shinkle, 2008, p. 44). Moody's director of housing economics Celia Chen Continue Reading...
S. growth will proceed at a crawl in 2008, which will provide little comfort for the dollar" and most certainly call for intervention again by the Fed. "In some fashion the dollar will continue to decline," according to Adnan Akant, a specialist in c Continue Reading...
Sellers want to get the maximum price for their goods. The market however, eventually will determine the price and the value that is conferred on any product. This ensures that the resource- optimization and resource-utilization in any organization Continue Reading...
Microeconomics Enron Corporation is an example of one of the largest corporate scandals in the history of the United States. Given a series of corporate mismanagement, Enron is regarded as a shocking example of corporate corruption in the modern busi Continue Reading...
Demand-Side Policies and the Great Recession of 2008 A recession can be defined as an overall downward spiral in a nation's economy. In particular, the outcome of recession is high inflation, high level of unemployment slowing down its gross domesti Continue Reading...
Self-Interest: Is it Good or Bad for the Economy? Self-Interest, Does it Produce Wealth and Create Jobs? There has been raging debate amongst economists on whether or not self-interest really promotes economic growth. In 1776, Adam Smith, the fathe Continue Reading...
International organizations www.worldbank.org - World Bank In its 'about' section, the World Bank advertises itself as helping countries "achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and Continue Reading...
Cheap: High Cost of the Discount Culture The Effects of the Discount Culture on American Workers The discount culture has created many concerns that giant retail stores are conducting business unfairly and taking advantage of American workers. For Continue Reading...
Home Exam Globalization refers to the ease and ability of businesses to acquire sources of raw material, manufacturing facilities, services and markets for their goods and services anywhere in the world. This ease has been brought about by the deve Continue Reading...
Exchange Rate Fluctuations Forex's opening trade on February 14, 2012 for the U.S. Dollar- Euro was one Dollar for .7593 Euros (Google Finance.com. February 14, 2012). Over the period covering the "Great Recession" and the subsequent recovery, the E Continue Reading...
Privatizing Social Security Social security can be generally defined as a program that provides social protection or protection against conditions that are socially recognized to workers and their dependents. Such social conditions include old age, Continue Reading...
These critics argue that the United States and Europe have been the principal financial support for the IMF for over fifty years and that, but for, such support the IMF would long ago ceased to function as a viable organization. Those supporting thi Continue Reading...
The Bank of America is not leveraging its assets effectively at present, and this is something that makes it a relatively unattractive investment. In addition, the Bank of America may not be in a position to take advantage of an upswing in the U.S. Continue Reading...
Latin American economies suffered military dictatorship nationalist government delivered promises developing economies. Compare contrast countries: Brazil Mexico. In comparison, detail destabilizing role "inflationary finance" How countries attempt s Continue Reading...
Bank of America and Merrill Lynch would have to be separated and Goldman Sachs could no longer be a bank holding company. "Commercial banks would take deposits, manage the nation's payments system, make standard loans and even trade securities for t Continue Reading...
When there is high inflation, it indicates that prices of goods are rising, which in turn indicates that people have additional money to spend and hence money supply is far beyond the levels expected by the central bank. In such a case, central bank Continue Reading...
Key Issues: Environmental Matters While the economy, Afghanistan and border security have become the most significant issues in the Canada-U.S. relationship since the presidential election, environmental matters will not take a back seat for long. Continue Reading...
(Assefa and Degefa, ND, online at (http://www.hmbasha.net/Starbucks_Ethiopia.htm) Until, very recently there were many upscale coffee drinkers that assumed that the nations that hold a geographic monopoly on the coffee market (as coffee can be grow Continue Reading...
This is a major part of the total "tax gap," the amount of unpaid taxes owed by individuals, corporations, and other organizations, which is estimated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be $345 billion. Tax havens have been used by American b Continue Reading...
The other side of this is that the companies have to spend finances in areas of language training or job training when they outsource. However, over the years, many U.S.-based companies haven't been discouraged by these additional costs because the Continue Reading...
In other words, the Keynesian economics were implemented on the belief that low levels of consumptions generate the economic crisis, and that "a fall in national income, lack of demand for goods, and rising unemployment should be countered by increa Continue Reading...
Bells dismissed the 1960s counterculture as merely children at play. He felt that it was an attempt to blur the line between fantasy and reality, a type of escapism for the misfits. However, the counterculture gave rise to creativity that sparked t Continue Reading...
Federal Sales Tax The purpose of the proposed Fair Tax Act of 2003 is "to promote freedom, fairness and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to b Continue Reading...
Federal Budget Process Every year the federal administration is involved with a total revenue and expenditure of about 1.5 trillion USD as a matter of fiscal practice. (Keith, 1996) The budgetary strategy of the federal administration is an integrat Continue Reading...
Ethics of Governor Rick Perry Campaign contributions are effective rent-seeking behavior that has been shown to substantively benefit individuals and business at the same time that it dampens economic growth (Marotta, 2013). Rent-seeking is the term Continue Reading...
