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US Economy Transformation of the 1950s and 1960s

unparalleled heights on the DOW as it did back then. There was also a perceptible shift from the production of goods toward the s...

Hollywood Elite and Titanic Film by Director James Cameron

something that is worth exploring. Values, such as marriage, are highly regarded. However, for the upper class, values include m...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals Performance Incentives

EVA = Net Operating Profit after Taxes - [Capital x Cost of Capital] This approach was intended to encourage managers to lo...

Economy of China and Foreign Direct Investment Effects

Chinas FDI Policies In the late 1970s, China began opening the door for foreign direct investment (FDI) (Fung, Iizaka and Tong, ...

1970s and 1980s' Economy of the United Kingdom

in the Arab Israeli war of 1973. The result was, that on 17th of October 1973 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia placed an embargo on oi...

Securities Purchasing and the Federal Reserve System

such a move would not be the best idea. For one thing, the Treasury market is large, flexible and liquid (Wheelock, 2002)....

Positive and Negative Aspects of Globalization

true that there are still numerous problems, injustices and inequalities that stem largely from the greed and self-interest of the...

Foreign Direct Investment Strategies in Africa

Christopher Columbuss time, there was the idea that trade is good. Clearly, using resources from other areas and making gains by i...

Global Economy and the Importance of Inter Organizational Relationships

its customers may be an upstream chain with the wholesaler first in the line upwards and at the source the farmer. The last sale i...

Southern Hemisphere's Political Economy and America's War on Drugs

some headway during the 1990s, something that caused investment to increase (2002). The state of affairs in not surprising. In the...

President George W. Bush and the American Economy

the job market and 1.3 million jobs have been created in 2004, thus far.4 The drawback is that a great many of these new jobs are ...

Education, the Economy, and a Hierarchy of Gender

social hierarchy is damaging to women is a societal pressure, a double standard, if you will. This constant reinforcement of what ...

Politics, Religion, and Language of South America

II. Language South America was settled largely by European immigrants who spoke Spanish and Portuguese, for the most part (Farn...

IPO and Its Decline

this way: "...continued stock market volatility could signal an IPO slowdown. The unprecedented volatility of high-tech stocks la...

U.S. Unemployment and its Impact

people immediately thing of their friends or family members who have lost jobs in recent years. They think of their plight and see...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

Answering Questions on International Political Economy Issues

war as being "characterized less by its immediate causes...than by the extent and the stakes involved," so that the "inevitable co...

Business Investment in Saudi Arabia

it provides 75% of the budget revenues and accounts for 90-% of the countries export earnings, it is understandable why the govern...

Post Second World War Economy of Russia

on a number of factors. The intent of this paper is to explore those factors and to consider how they have changed since the end ...

Italian Economic Conditions

as has been found in Italy for some time. Italys left-leaning policies historically have been unfriendly to business in the sense...

Trade Outlook for Caribbean Nations

Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago (Barclay and ...

Post Second World War Era and Late Industrialization's Effects

order to develop at a faster pace. However, the neo-liberal perspective argues for less state intervention, and it is argued that ...

Opportunities for Women of Color in the American West

school systems and particularly in the realm of higher education at a time when only those with financial means were able to atten...

Society of Mexico and the Neoliberalization Economic Impacts

the world in general, particularly the influence of powerful countries such as the United States. Unfortunately for many ...

U.S. Economy During the Presidencies of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush

that can control things such a taxes. They are also involved in appointments to economic posts, such as Secretary of the Treasury ...

November 2003 Economy

of productivity, does give support to the economy ("Federal Reserve," 2003). Congress is similarly impressed with the status quo. ...

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

Expressing Gun Control Support

the question becomes: Is it a constitutional right for children and adolescents to bear arms? Indeed not, however, law enforcemen...

1998 to 2002 Economy of the United States

overall balance of payments did not change much in 2003Q2 (Weinberg, 2003). It remained at $138.7 billion in the second quarter (W...