The Economics Of Federal Defense Policy
.... to absorb twenty percent
of the federal budget-over a third of which is spent protecting Europe against
an enemy that no longer exists.
In fact, that is the most probable source of America's problems: the budget.
Forty-seven percent of the national federal budget is spent for a military
expense. The National Defense, the topic of this paper, is what is stealing
money from the poor in our own country and lessening our status as the "sole
superpower" of the world.
The National Defense was a program initiated from day one of the United States'
existence. It was a program designed to protect the people of the world, but
primaril .....
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The Combines Act
.... quite familiar to
any other monopolistic markets. Since no team can create any revenue by
themselves they must form a coalition with another club to produce a profit
generating output, namely a hockey game. Other clubs enter this coalition thus
creating a formal league which we call the National Hockey League. Jones then
states how revenue is generated in the N.H.L and how it is affected by certain
factors.
A theoretical model of the N.H.L is created by Jones with all things being equal,
creating an equilibrium amongst all clubs. The model is then adjusted to real
life variables that turns his theoretical model into what we know .....
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The Economics Of The Clean Air Act
.... economic and social issues and the debate over the effectiveness of
stricter, present or more lenient regulations has turned into a smorgasboard of
prectical solutions, with opponents quickly changing minds and becoming
supporters and vice-versa.
The expenditure of about 20 billion on the part of companies since 1990 to
clean up such hazardous pollutants as cars, factories, and thousands of other
measures have reaped about 400 billion in saved hospital costs, lost workdays,
reduced productivity, and other conditions while at the same time theoretically
helping to reduce smog and pollution. The findings of a report on experim .....
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U.S. Wage Trends
.... I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. “
The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be
cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially
self-destructive because there will not be enough purchasing power to grow the
economy,” M. B. Zuckerman. My feeling is that the trend from unskilled labor to
highly technical, skilled labor is a good one! But, political action must be
taken to ensure that this societal evolution is beneficial to all of us. “Back
in 1970, a high school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle income
bracket, a nice car in the dr .....
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The Fed And Interest Rates
.... these rises in rates will tend to sell
their low interest assets, in order to acquire additional money, they tend move
toward higher yielding accounts, also further increasing the rate. Soon this
small change by the Fed affects all aspects of business, from the price level to
interest rates on credit cards.
Rises and falls in the interest rate can reflect many changes in an
economy. When the economy is in a recession and needs a type of stimulus
package, the Fed may attempt to decrease the interest rates to encourage growth
and spending in the markets. This was the case from 1989 until last month,
during which the nati .....
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Will The Global Economy Help Or Hurt The Next Generation Of Americans?
.... Our schools teach American students to be good at memorization. To
be able to spit out recorded information. "You do have the knowledge but you are
basically robots with skin; machines, tape recorders that teachers use to record
their information. At the end of a chapter, they rewind you and press the 'play'
button to see if you can repeat everything they said."1 Also, our schools are
not stressing the importance of math and science. Because of this fact, foreign
born workers such as engineers are taking over the jobs American workers could
have. Our students need to be truly smart because memorized skills ca .....
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The Great Depression
.... clean out some depositors savings if funds are not ensured. When
there was the depression, most people can not meet the house or apartment
payments so they lose there homes and become homeless.
During a depression some people must live on charity just to support themselves
and there families. Sometimes the people who get the charity money, clothes, and
food get kind of embarrassed that they need the money and they feel ashamed that
they can't afford to support themselves which is basically not their fault. The
Great Depression caused lots of marriages and birth rates to decline. If you
were a younger person and you didn't hav .....
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The Greek Economy
.... of fish products within Greece. However in
recent years thousands of tons of fish are exported each year, due to the ever
increasing development of fish farms in the country. In the late 80's the annual
catch totalled 135000 tons, from which 80% was consumed within Greece. Sponges
are the main marine product exported.
Mining
Mining is of little importance to the Greek economy. We should mention though
the annual output of minerals in tons: bauxite 2.3 million, iron ore 1.3 million
and magnesite 884400. Also, about 279200 cu m of marble were quarried. Petroleum,
salt, chromium, silver, zinc were also produced.
Manufacturing
A .....
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The Importance Of Planning For A Stereo Manufacturer
.... CD players, DAT players, minidisk players, etc. give
rise to even more sales.
In the 1960's the firs stereo recordings were made. Soon afterwards, the
industry introduced the notion Hi-Fi (high fidelity) just to make clear how
far the development had come.
When the cassette tape was introduced in the 1960's, many problems were solved.
Now it was possible to produce a recorder which could be used when the
surroundings were in motion (i.e. in a car) . Now it was workable to bring the
source of music were ever people wanted. The cassette could also record, and was
extremely easy to use compered to the LP. Also the casset .....
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The Modified Market Economy
.... regulation in terms of income distribution.
The intervention by the government, in forms such as social security nets,
which is present in a modified market, makes society more evenly spread rather
than everyone being one of two things, that is, very rich, or very poor.
In such economies as these, the government influence economic decision making
much to our advantage in terms of them providing many of the resources needed to
satisfy collective wants, making restrictions upon what can and can not be done,
in the interests of our health, the environment, impacts upon society etc.
Through this they regulate much of the pos .....
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The National Debt
.... The U.S. Government came up
with the gold standard and stopped minting silver coins. The coins were then
made from scrap pieces of metal and the cash became paper. Richard Nixon and
Gerald Ford passed the debt and added to it. The first sign of bankruptcy
occured during the Jimmy Carter Presidency. Inflation skyrocketed and interest
rates fluttered near 20%. President Ronald Reagan made the economy act better,
temporarily. To make the economy better, Reagan invented something called a
credit spree. A credit spree in my opinion is when we go out and buy everything,
but we put in on a charge (spending money we dont have.) .....
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The New Deal
.... direction of what would be a slow recovery process.
Roosevelt's next objective was to take care of the people. Though
Roosevelt was a conservative, he realized the extreme need to help the poor. He
had Congress respond promptly, and established the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration that gave $500 million in relief to the poor people of the
country. Roosevelt then went on to create organizations that would offer jobs
and a sense of self-esteem to the unemployed of the country. One of these
organizations was the Civilian Conservation Corps that provided young men with
jobs to improved the environment. They had such j .....
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