Durkheim and the Times Event Summary Vindu Goel and Nick Wingfield of The New York Times (2015) report that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has promised to donate 99% of his shares in the company to charity over the course of his lifetime. Wh Continue Reading...
Finance The Effect of the Eurozone Today on Global Financial Markets Global markets are so intertwined today that what affects one is definitely going to have an impact on another. Case in point, the recent issues in Greece and other European Union Continue Reading...
Technology Energy Efficiency The idea of electric cars, which run on big rechargeable batteries in opposition gas-powered internal combustion engines, has been around for years. But growing climate-alteration worries, tougher fuel-efficiency standa Continue Reading...
The Japanese economy stagnated since 1990: when real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an average of just 1.2%. Since 1995, growth was extremely slow averaging less than 0.7% on year-to-year basis." ("Banking Crisis... "5) During the last quar Continue Reading...
The Leadership of Lehman Brothers: An Exploration of Corporate Direction and Decision-Making Lehman Brothers' legacy has been inextricably linked to its leadership, whose decisions played a pivotal role in the prestigious financial firm's ascension Continue Reading...
China Trip Personal Experience/ Observation My visit to the Chinese cities of Shanghai, Beijing, and Wuhan taught me several things I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to learn. I could study cases on the country, read books, watch numerous vid Continue Reading...
Low Civic Engagement? Move Civil Disobedience out of the Streets and Take it to the Polls and Pundits Before proposing a solution to the problem of low civic engagement in the U.S., it is necessary to understand why there is such a low level of eng Continue Reading...
Governments should limit their interference in market progress. The recent Presidential election was billed as a choice between two visions for America. Unfortunately for voters, there are many other visions that were not presented as viable options Continue Reading...
Government and Business Over the last 100 years, the issue of government regulation has been increasingly brought to the forefront. Part of the reason for this, is because there has been a need for various laws to be enacted to protect the safety an Continue Reading...
Public Policy and Unintended Consequences: A Review of Stakeholders and Incentives There are a myriad of unintended consequences that relate to changes in public policy, specifically relating to management characteristics and priorities. Without tak Continue Reading...
"30% of Kmart's shoppers did not have bank accounts." But "Target is focused on a family of four earning $50,000 a year," in contrast "Wal-Mart's customers make $40,000 a year. Kmart's make $32,000. You tell me which chain is more attractive in the Continue Reading...
Bank Regulation -The Way Forward Since the recession hit the U.S.A. And the effect felt across the globe, there has always been the debate on the role that the banks and the banking system played in occasioning, perpetuating and even failure to stop Continue Reading...
Long-Term Investment Decisions Raising Prices Keeping prices inelastic is one way to ensure that a pricing strategy does not impact the reasons for a consumer's purchasing of the product. If price is elastic, it rises and falls with various factors Continue Reading...
Independent Commission's recommendations satisfy many of the criteria specified in the Saunders-Walter paper. However, many others are not satisfied, and many people feel as though any fix based on the IC recommendations would only represent a parti Continue Reading...
Financial Industry There appears to be a disjointed understanding concerning the functioning of a capitalistic economy and its use of money. Financializaition is a mostly new model of the use of money as a valuable resource in and of itself. Money i Continue Reading...
Deregulation The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 was the first major attempt at regulating the financial industry. The Act was passed by President Roosevelt with the objective of restoring public confidence in the banking system. Glass-Steagall sought to Continue Reading...
Economic Globalization Has the 2008 financial meltdown in the U.S. And the ongoing economic crisis in Europe have practically ended the era of economic globalization? Following the financial crisis that marred the U.S. economy along with other glob Continue Reading...
Fiscal policy of the United States is one of increased spending to help stimulate the economy. A good example of this can be seen with the President's proposal to spend $447 billion on encouraging employers to hire new workers and through government Continue Reading...
financial system trials tribulations starting early 2008. Indicate major reasons contributed financial market's collapse. Please leave a space reason. -College Level paperOrder ID Five major factors that contributed to the financial market's collap Continue Reading...
Wasteful Government Spending Is the Current Level of Federal Spending Sustainable? Over the last several years, the total amounts of federal spending have been rising sharply. Part of the reason for this, is because of the different entitlement pro Continue Reading...
Strategic Perspectives Sberbank Over the last several years, the banking industry in Russia underwent a major transformation. As the traditional institutions of the past, have been evolving into global financial centers. This is because they are rea Continue Reading...
They are definitely a group that is picked for their passion for government affairs and who keep abreast of economic trends that affect the country. Also, it is not necessarily the case that one who has insider knowledge will necessarily use it. On Continue Reading...
A company may be profitable, but not growing, and vice versa, thus affecting leverage (Aggaral and Zhao, 2007). b. induce a negative relationship between firm value and leverage; conversely, if a firm is perceived with negative or flat growth, leve Continue Reading...
Indeed, risk-seeking is pervasive in the financial industry, as competition compels banks to seek higher returns. Regulation such as capital requirements can help to reduce risk-seeking behavior, although the negative affect such regulations have on Continue Reading...
Thus, crises of capitalism have so far avoided provoking the alternative solution of a transition out of capitalism" (Wolffe 2009). Welfare state capitalism is merely one incarnation of capitalism, and neo-liberalism is not such a striking reformati Continue Reading...
" America 'absorbed' 70 of the world's prosperity as oil supplies grew, and personal debt skyrocketed while inequities between rich and poor grew more chasm-like than ever before. Wolf says that to address the systemic problems, the governments of t Continue Reading...
Macro Economics Politicians and Macro Economics In America, the duty of running the economy belongs to members of congress. Some decisions they make concerning the economy shoe they have vast knowledge of macroeconomics. Although, some of the membe Continue Reading...
Out of the previous two CEO's, Apotheker has by far the most experience. What more intriguing is that he has experience with both the entrepreneurial and corporate aspects of business? This provides a competitive advantage for HP as it has further Continue Reading...
Today, even the local gas station and supermarket use computer technology and applications that are much more advanced in their capability than the computer systems used to launch and recover the first generation of spacecraft (Evans, 2004; Kaku, 19 Continue Reading...
Even though the overall life expectancy in the U.S. has increased to the age of 78, the relative ranking has fallen in relation to the rest of the world, with the U.S. now 38th out of 195 countries, behind most of Western Europe. These rankings ma Continue Reading...
Microeconomics is the branch of economics concerned with the behavior of individual entities such as markets, firms, and households. Analyzing HSBC Bank through the lens of microeconomic theory involves examining how the bank makes decisions about re Continue Reading...
Role of Government in the Budget ProcessThe budgetary process begins when the president submits a budget request to the U. S. Congress in conjunction with the Office of Management and Budget, with recommendations for how much the government should sp Continue Reading...
Economic philosophies and policies become politically divisive issues because they pertain to deeply held values about the role of government in a society. Yet in spite of the vast chasm that disconnects economic conservatives from economic liberals, Continue Reading...
The Economy and U.S. Health Care Contemporary transformations are fundamentally challenging the U.S. health care system. This can be seen, for example, in the way our economy today is impacting health care. The mixed-market economy is steadily shifti Continue Reading...
U.S. Bond Market I agree with Standard & Poor's (S&P) downgrade of the U.S.'s credit rating. It was motivated by the fact that Congress and the Obama Administration had been unable to come up with a budget or fiscal plan that would stabilize Continue Reading...
Over the course of time, assertive laws are evolving which are supposed to deal with any issues quickly. This means that all financial firms will face higher costs and greater amounts of time in complying with these new guidelines. ("Dodd Frank") C Continue Reading...
Bank of America credit is rated Baa2, compared with A2 for JP Morgan Chase. Both of these banks have similar structures and similar product lines. Bank of America is more heavily oriented towards retail, while JP Morgan Chase has a strong investment Continue Reading...
