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Economic Development in Japan
July 31st, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Japan is known as the model for the free developing word and that is how their economic development works in Far East Asia. This is near in the boundary of Korean Peninsula. This nation has been extending assistance to the less developed countries in the form of money, materials, and technology. It ranks number two among
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Europe is Jumping the Gun by Removing Stimulus!
July 29th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Last winter, global central banks were in agreement, assuring markets that stimulative policies would remain in place until a durable global economic recovery is secured, that “pre-mature withdrawal of stimulus would be avoided, and when the time arrived the withdrawal will be globally co-operative and undertaken in a coordinated way.” It sounded easy at the time,
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Europe is Jumping the Gun by Removing Stimulus!
Men Most Affected by Recession
July 27th, 2010. Published under Economic News, Unemployment. No Comments.
A report from Credit counselling charity shows that there are rising demand from men as male income drops and outgoings increase. Men have been more affected by recession due to a number of factors including rising unemployment, a slower rate of salary increases and rising household expenditure. Going by the figures from Consumer Credit Counselling Service
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Laying Off Teachers Today is Very Bad For Tomorrow
July 23rd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
What do these numbers and words have in common? 23,225 16,000 > 100,000 100 17 10.4% 17.5% $6,000 220 and 65.2% Texas Curriculum and the Canceled Prom 31,000 miles Germany, Canada, France, Japan and Sweden 23,225 and 16,000 On Monday, March 15, 2010, California handed 23,225 teachers “possible” pink slips to public school teachers, indicating that it’s very likely their contracts will not be renewed for the 2010-2011 school year.
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Help the Needy Whether They Deserve it Or Not
July 20th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Have you ever seen a homeless person on the street corner with a sign asking for money? Have you worried about whether or not you should help this person or what they will really do with the money? Do you hold back dropping any money in that cup because you think they will only use
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Help the Needy Whether They Deserve it Or Not
People Frozen in Time and Fear
July 19th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
What is happening to the American people? You know the people who go to work and support their families. Make their mortgage and rent payments every month. You know the American Dream. Now it’s like what I see is walking zombies. Where are the jobs? I hear all day long. I have never in my
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Consumer Predictions For 2011 Will You Be Ready?
July 16th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Prediction #1- Fuel efficient car prices, both new and used, will go up, up, up. As the BP oil spill continues, efforts to cap the well will prove only partially successful. This problem will help further the agenda of cap and trade and carbon credits. This will, by design, help bolster oil prices as
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Debating Extended Unemployment
July 14th, 2010. Published under Economic News, Unemployment. No Comments.
With the U.S. unemployment rate currently hovering around 9.5%, there is still debate on whether to extend unemployment benefits once again. Under normal conditions, states would provide up to 26 weeks of unemployment insurance coverage for workers. Due to the recession, federal law had allowed an extension up to 99 weeks, depending on the rate
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Seven Corporate Giants That May Disappear in 2011
July 9th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
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Taking America Back
July 8th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
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Taking America Back
World Economic Outlook As of April 2010
July 5th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
According to a report released in April 2010 by the International Monetary Fund here are some global considerations and expectations. The recovery is stronger than expected but the speed of the recovery will vary Financial conditions are easing in some sectors. Capital is flowing into emerging economies. Inflation pressures have lessened but they may still rear their
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Lower GDP Growth Rate in US
June 30th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The US economy has shown a sluggish rate of growth his year. This can be attributed to many factors. One of them is the rise of imports by this country. The reduced spending by the US citizens can also be held accountable for such a slow growth rate of this economy. According to the commerce
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The Economy Who’s to Blame?
June 26th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
It’s amazing, with the economy in a slump, people losing jobs and our GDP in the dump compared to interest payments on our national debt barely showing any rebound we continue to support foreign products. We ask, “Who’s to blame?” Take a long hard look in the mirror, and then take a look at what’s in
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Trust Selves Vs Sales
June 25th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
We, as the human species, are much, much more powerful and self-directed than we imagine ourselves to be. If left to our own raw instincts, we would almost always know what choices to make in any given situation. Unless we are mentally ill or aberrant in some way, we USUALLY know right from wrong. If
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Dollars and Nonsense
June 22nd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
According to a recent news item, “due to rising prices of the materials used to mint coins, it now costs 2 cents to manufacture every penny and nine cents to make a nickel.” Most who read that fail to see the utter absurdity of it all. Stop and think how little sense this makes. How can it cost
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Developments Leading to the Icelandic Financial Crisis
June 1st, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The developments leading up to the Icelandic financial crisis makes for an interesting read, only because of the fact that a lot of factors actually contributed to it. The problem really was – No one was able to understand the magnitude of the problem at hand, resulting in the entire situation to spill over in
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US Consumer Confidence Up But Consumer Spending Down
May 31st, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
This is not a comedy of errors, but a real life scenario, where the Consumer Board survey suggested a strengthening of the consumer confidence in November, but US GDP growth took a beating on the back of constrained consumer spending. While, suggesting stronger consumer confidence for November, the Conference Board also suggested that US consumers continue
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How to Survive a Recession Now and in the Future
May 30th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Surviving is all up to you. Do you want to learn how to survive a recession? You have to ask yourself: Why are you on a search? Do you need a job? Do you want to work for someone else or are you ready to take a little time everyday to work for yourself. (Fortunately,
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Obama Health Care – How it Affects Middle Class Americans
May 29th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Obama health care has received mixed emotions from people all over the nation. Some are in favor, others feel that the government has completely taken control of their rights. For the middle class Americans, many believe Obama care will adversely affect themselves and the upper class. While it does make significant changes to our current
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The Return of Inflation Or Printing Money is Easy – Investing it Well is the Difficult Part
May 28th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
OPEC has just concluded its latest ministerial meeting, having decided to keep production quotas as they are. The oil cartel must be commended for their able management of the market. 2008 saw an extraordinary price spike which contributed significantly to the global recession. It was followed in short order by a price collapse threatening to bankrupt
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The Return of Inflation Or Printing Money is Easy – Investing it Well is the Difficult Part
The Need For Sound Money
May 26th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
“Coinage is imprinted gold or silver, by which the prices of things bought and sold are reckoned…. It is therefore a measure of values. A measure, however, must always preserve a fixed and constant standard. Otherwise, public order is necessarily disturbed, with buyers and sellers being cheated in many ways, just as if the
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The Gravity Would Change But The Global Financial Order Not!
May 25th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The Global financial system is so much inclined in the ways people think that it has become the untouchable constant function of perception of life so anything else suggested is considered heretic or even farther totally impossible and generally insane. The “Status quo” principles are: individual countries and global monetary quantities are directly connected to economic growth
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The Gravity Would Change But The Global Financial Order Not!
Shopping Malls – The Pain Continues
May 24th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Like a migraine that never seems to go away, the economic troubles at shopping malls continues to wreak havoc with investors all across the U.S., but especially in western states like California. Particularly hard hit are facilities in newly developed communities or neighborhoods where real estate investors sought to serve what, at the time were considered
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How Do We Live Though Pressed For Money?
May 23rd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The simple answer to my article title is creatively, but to those who need more, I will write more. When I say creatively, I do not mean anything illegal. I do mean creativity based on rational thinking and honest effort though. So many people have so much of a follow the leader mentality that illegal
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Future Prospects of the Indian Economy
May 22nd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The Indian economy is growing at a fast pace. It is officially the world’s second fastest growing economy. The Indian economy is likely to change a lot in the developing country. Since the beginning of the economic reform in India in early 1990s, the country has gone through a lot of drastic changes. There have been
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Causes of Unemployment and How it Has Effected the Baby Boomers
May 21st, 2010. Published under Economic News, Unemployment. No Comments.
Are you an older unemployed worker or know someone who is? We all know that the unemployment rate is very high right now. There are two main reasons or causes why workers become unemployed; controllable and uncontrollable. For Baby Boomers, who lost their jobs because of downsizing, finding new employment maybe more difficult. This leaves
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The Secret to Surviving the Coming Economic Collapse
May 20th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The mainstream media would have you believe we are well on our way to a full recovery. Don’t listen to them. The underlying problems that led to the current recession and market collapse have not gone away. Americans are still buried in debt and world governments are printing more money to cover the cost of
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The Importance of Internet Neutrality
May 19th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Large network companies and cable companies are trying to get their hands on the largest money load of them all; the internet. The internet is an exponentially expanding market that is only going to get bigger. We are seeing more and more internet based companies and less and less offline companies being created. There is
Does the Present Recession Affect Women More Than Men?
May 18th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
If men were the first to lose their jobs in the heart of the economic crisis in the United States, a study now shows a reverse trend, women-particularly mothers-today are suffering the collateral effects, while the American economy is back on the road to growth. According to a report by the Joint Economic Committee of the
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Amazon Earnings – A Solid Quarter
May 15th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
First-quarter Amazon earnings beat Wall Street’s forecast of highest earnings estimates. This Thursday, Amazon reported its earnings with its figures which surpassed the projected earnings provided by Wall Street. However, investors are now concerned about the coming forecast due for the next, second quarter earnings estimates which are sending the market shares down in the
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Statistics on Women and Money Problems in the USA and a Particular Solution
May 14th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Lately, I came across the television and I could see a news story in which they talked about women employments and how their salaries compared against those of men. At that very moment, I realized that even in 2010, women’s wages are not reaching parity yet. Of course, they have come a long way since
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Government Stimulus Package Money to Boost the Economy
May 13th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The global economy, having gone through a rock-bottom phase, is slowly rising and there are boosters from all quarters of the world (at the zone state, country level), to give the necessary impetus for recovery, and subsequently a full-swing activity. Such is the stimulus package money rewarded by the government to individuals and businesses alike,
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Smoke and Mirrors – Why the ECB Didn’t Really Save the World
May 12th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
On May 10, 2010, in the early hours of the morning the news came out. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had established a line of credit for more than a trillion euros for countries struggling with debt. The markets went wild, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, for example,
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What is Deflation?
May 11th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Currently we are still at the crossroads of beating the current economic recession, and one effect of this has been “deflation” in some sectors of our economies. What is deflation, and what are its actual effects? Our economies are all different, despite the fact that most Countries do follow the free market economic modal to some
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What is Deflation?
Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class!
May 8th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
One of the hallmarks of a free society is a vibrant and growing “middleclass.” As the economy throughout the world goes through the transition from mega-factories run by multinational conglomerates to the age of global entrepreneurship we must be vigilant that the middleclass is not lost in the process. When an economy goes through a transition
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Honey, I Shrunk the Middle Class!
Back to the Stone Age in Megabit Speed and What Made it Happen?
May 6th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
It was pure stone age, we say about the first computers and the way to work. What if we were right?! Fifteen thousand years ago the first humans came to what was to become Sweden. They walked from the east, west and south and were hunters, fishermen and gatherers. They were not cavemen. They were
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Back to the Stone Age in Megabit Speed and What Made it Happen?
Global Redesign by Algorithms, Knowledge and Information
May 5th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
The world is being redesigned. Information and communication technologies are changing the structure and composition of global commerce and industry. This is a new economy anchored on the powers of microprocessors. Today, the classical economics theories of factors of production and comparative advantages of nations are still relevant. However, a new concept has evolved to diminish
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The EU and Asia
May 4th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
I remember reading as an undergrad that artificial countries will never work out. Good examples are the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. We can never integrate people and their spaces together with other people and their spaces if they are different culturally. We need very strong leaders to hold such constructs together. In recent times, we saw
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How to Predict What Happens in the Economy
May 3rd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Below are the three very direct steps to finding out how to know what is going to happen in the economy, before it happens. Step 1 Study the big picture. For example, when you start feeling a pinch on your wallet because of what you are paying for in gas, ask why. Ask why and see the
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Canadian Economic Recovery – Heads in the Sand?
May 2nd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
With the way that Canadians are spending at present, you would never know that we have been having-and will be having repercussions from-a recession for years to come. While Americans are having to learn new frugal habits, Canadians seem to be back to their old spending habits. However, we would benefit from continuing a more
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How Will Federal Health Care Change $850M in Local Taxes Raised in Florida Health Care Districts?
May 1st, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
With the passage of the new federal health care law, what will happen to the $850 million in taxes raised every year by local taxing districts around Florida to support care of the uninsured? In Palm Beach County, the Health Care District has insurance coverage for the uninsured in Palm Beach County. Approximately 40 thousand residents
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Canadians Still at Parity
April 30th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
This past April 24 weekend, the Canadian dollar slid as inflation and retail sales came in weaker than expected. Economists were surprised as currencies usually strengthen when interest rates increase to attract capital flows. However, the Canadian dollar managed to climb its way back up just above parity with our greenback neighbour, which was lifted
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Texas Energy Independence
April 28th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Independence Plus Globalization – a Formula for Success in Texas You probably haven’t seen this on the nightly news, but Texas is doing much better economically than the rest of the nation. Part of this State’s success is, of course, a gift from nature. Texas produces oil and natural gas – and wind. But the independent political
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The Current State of the Texas Economy
April 26th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
A recent Associated Press survey on the economy by economists didn’t paint a pretty picture. Home values are stagnant, consumers are still cutting back and not enough jobs are being created. While all of this is true in Texas, too, the Lone Star state still seems to be weathering the economic “recovery” better than other
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Congress Decides to Extend Jobless Benefits Deadline
April 25th, 2010. Published under Economic News, Unemployment. No Comments.
Congress voted April 15 2010 to roll forward the last day for jobless claimants to file for extended unemployment benefits till June 2 2010, a law President Barack Obama immediately signed into law. This law will restore federal unemployment benefits to over 200,000 jobless Americans would have been ineligible for them starting April 5. Before the amendment,
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Philosophy of a Governing Economy
April 24th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
In contrast to the US economic policies China uses much more decisively economic tools when a situation arises. In many cases when either Global economic crises was on its ways as it happen in 2008-2009 or now when Chinese economy shows overheating the Chinese government does not hesitate to act and to act promptly and
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Recession Slowed Business Down – Will it Slow Down Drivers?
April 23rd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Police may be giving out more speeding tickets in response to budgetary needs created by the recession. Many media outlets picked up on the story by Larry Copeland in the USA Today. Based on input from James Baxter, President of National Motorists Association, the story notes that there is a growing trend toward police issuing
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Don’t Worry, It May Never Happen
April 22nd, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
History never repeats itself, exactly. However, perceived parallels can warrant serious discussion. With the recovery no longer in doubt, it has become more fashionable to actually increase the pessimism for future years, assuming that the economy will fall apart again when the historically high stimulus is removed. Here’s why I refute the validity of this seemingly-logical
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Don’t Worry, It May Never Happen
Bulldozing Houses
April 20th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
We all read recently that a guy who built his own house destroyed it with a bulldozer rather than seeing it lost to foreclosure. Another nut flew his plane into an IRS building. I am sure there was an awful lot of background to such stories. Maybe these poor souls just went crazy. People don’t just
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Introduction of the Ant Tribe
April 16th, 2010. Published under Economic News. No Comments.
Nowadays, lots of words like “ant tribe”, “dwelling narrowness” are famous on the internet and the daily expression which used to describe people who born in the late of 1980s and graduated recently. What is the common ground between ant and the college students born in the late of 1980s? We will have a look at
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Introduction of the Ant Tribe