Money Article Reviews Samples For Students

International Banking and Finance

Canada and the United States are similar in many aspects. However, they exhibit some financial policy differences. In the past decade, both countries were faced with the same problems in the global business environment. These comprised of flooding of the market with cheap commodities and money from the Asian countries. Economists in both countries even agreed that the period of the severe recession was over. But when everything went wrong, the consequences in both countries were very different. The United States suffered the consequences while Canada did not.

It has been speculated that this happened because of the ...

Response

The $9.9 million reduction in budget allocation makes one of the things that caught me by surprise. A closer analysis of the budget reveals that security/counter-terrorism grants have reduced dramatically from the 2013 values. The other most surprising thing is that the budget for communication was also reduced in 2014. Common knowledge would suggest an increased funding in communications and counter-terrorism programs. The capital program also surprised me since the department seems to have an elaborate ten-year plan that underfunded. Further, I was surprised to note that administration of the police department increased in budget allocation. The budget shows a ...

The article The Weird Rules of Creativity written by Robert I. Sutton and published in Harvard Business Review provides an insight into the management issues. Actually, author writes about creativity and special environment that should be achieved within the framework of the companies. Creativity demands special attitude to flourish. According to the author creativity appears in conditions, which cannot be called friendly, low-stressed and funny. His studies confirm this theory. Sutton states that good manager should take everything he or she knows about management and stand it on its head. Furthermore, his article is dedicated to three ideas for ...

The main research question that was studied in the article “Do airport hotels continue to be a growth opportunity, and which airports present the best opportunities?” by Joni Smith was to assess how hotels depend on the local airport to generate demand for their service. There was also a secondary hypothesis investigated studying the link between the premiums charged at average and peak travel times.

The methodology used to address the research questions were questionnaires given to the hotels in the areas of the airports asking for information about occupancy percentages, room rates, and vicinity in relation to the terminals, ...

Article Summary

Mental accounting is a group of cognitive operations that households and individuals use individuals to organise, evaluate, and keep track of business operations. The article summarises the current state of our components of mental knowledge about how people engage in mental accounting. The article is a depth analysis of mental accounting in relation to personal decision-making. The author starts by introducing mental accounting. According to the author, the difference between mental accounting and financial and managerial accounting is the fact that mental accounting involves households and individuals and not organisations.
The other also highlights the process of mental decision-making. The ...

Summary: Consumer Behavior

Mental accounting can be said to be a set of cognitive operations that households and individuals use to organize, evaluate and keep track of their financial activities. This paper gives a summary about our current understanding about the nature of people’s engagement in mental accounting techniques. This paper concentrates on the three components of mental accounting. The first one is concerned with how people perceive and experience outcomes, and how decisions are made and then evaluated. For example, a consumer choice can be understood by incorporating value of the deal. The second component of mental accounting involves assigning activities to certain ...

Introduction

Financial markets are subject to market factors including those that affect demand and supply for money. In that respect, this discussion refers to an article on US debt crisis to demonstrate the effect of such factors by analyzing the effect of US debt ceiling crisis that include foreign financial institutions hoarding funds and their refusal to accept US treasuries as collateral.

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- Financial market’s debt ceiling impact on interest rate and private investments without an agreement that US was no longer able to borrow.
With a debt ceiling but lack of an agreement that the US government could ...

Currency Wars

Currency Wars is also referred to as competitive devaluation. It is a scenario where countries compete against each other to gain a low exchange rate for their own domestic currency. As the country’s domestic currency falls, so does the price of exports from that country. The imports become expensive and the domestic industry flourishes due to increase in demand from the domestic and foreign markets. The leaders of G-20 nations met in Moscow and took some important decisions regarding currency wars. In a statement issued at the conclusion of the conference, the finance ministers of G20 promised, by issuing a statement, that ...

The article by Ameriprise financial institute states that the goal of any investor is to minimize losses and maximize profits. It further states that investment and business management involves various risks that may occur from time to time. However, the article does not mention the types of risks that may occur in the course of business. Furthermore, it states that individuals should save enough income for their retirement benefits, mortgages and funds to cater for their health at old age. Ominously, it fails to elucidate health insurance that is known to be the most important constituent of the business ...

Delays at S.B.A. Harm Program for Women
According to a government survey in 2007, the disarray of miscommunication inside the Small Business Administration considerably delayed some federal grants to women’s business centers, which annually help very many women to start up self-owned enterprises (Olson, 2007). In this article published on the New York Times, the author indicates that the lag in the agency’s delivery of federal funds forced part of the 98 women’s business centers to send their staff packing. Giving data from the audit by the S.B.A. inspector general’s office, the article indicates that ...

Fred Moseley. "The U.S. economic crisis | International Socialist Review." N.p., 20 Jan. 2009. Web. http://isreview.org/issue/64/us-economic-crisis
In 2009, the U.S economy experienced its worst disaster since the Great Depression. The article discusses the causes of the crisis, how bad it was and the various policies the government implemented to end it. The major cause of the crisis was the decline in the rate of profits. The rate of profit declined from 22% in 1970s to 12% in 2009. This resulted to high inflations and unemployment rates, therefore reducing the consumers’ purchasing power. As a result, the government had to adapt ...

Management

IMF gives a warning that much efforts is needed by banks to lower their risks
The article is talks about the alerts made by that the International Monetary Fund for banks to come up with solutions to their own problems. It is said that, “when you fail to plain, you plan to fail.” The article’s author is Douwe Miedema and the source is Bloomberg BusinessWeek newspaper. In the paper below, the crisis of bankruptcy in big banks is discussed and their over dependency towards the government. The paper goes further to discuss the improper handling of taxpayers’ money ...

Written by Robert V. Remini, “The Jacksonian Revolution” revolves around the ascension of Andrew Jackson to Presidency and in turn, the launch of American politics’ transformations. After a History in which only the societies’ aristocrats governed the political sphere of the country, Jackson’s decision to vie for the presidential seat was shocking to most Americans (132). In addition, Jackson's decision was defilement of all of the Founding Fathers’ expectations about the country (132). Thus, otherwise dubbed the “Age of Jackson”, the “Jacksonian Era” of between 1828 and 1848 (132) saw the American government pay more heed to the ideologies ...

Most management experts profess the efficacy of decision making in groups as compared to individuals. This review, however, would focus on certain Group Decision making concepts in the article by Jason Zweig by analyzing the positives and negatives of group decision making and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
This paper will begin by highlighting the positive aspects of decision making in a group. The most obvious aspects of group based decision making include a greater combined pool of knowledge, different perspectives that people within the group bring to the table, greater understanding of the rationale behind decisions, ...

Summary

In Jan.1, 1914, Tony Jannus flew an aircraft designer by the name Flying Boat No. 43. He flew the aircraft into the aviation history and across Tampa Bay. The journey took 23 minutes with only one passenger who paid $400. The trip became one of the first scheduled commercial flight in the world. During that day, Fansler told people that the Airport line would be a sign of great activity. In addition, Fansler asserted that the things that were impossible yesterday would be the accomplishments of today. The rickety seaplane struck many people yet it was only powered by 75-horsepower ...

Jeremy Bentham’s Writings

Jeremy Bentham is most famously known for his writings on utilitarianism theory, although he was also a jurist and a social reformer. This essay will review Bentham’s article ‘The Psychology of Economic Man.’
The article by Bentham deals with the psychological aspects of man in relation to economic wants. He starts off with the foundational premise of his article by stating that one’s primary aim is happiness and for attaining this aim one would do any that that would satisfy this tendency of self-preference. He argues that others cannot look after one’s happiness and that one has ...

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The article on Microfinance as a possible means of alleviating poverty in the developing world is an interesting piece that provides information on how micro-lending initiatives like Grameen Bank are helping the poor improve their domestic economic condition. Grameen Bank’s work over 30 years brought its founder Mohammad Yunus the Nobel Peace prize in 2006 for helping alleviate poverty (38). The author Susanna Khavul provides a lucid outline of microfinancing as it exists. Several micro-financing initiatives around the world have been created by the international banks, institutional investors, and foundations (38) besides individual investors. The micro-lending initiatives which ...

Section A: Monetary policy

For instance, according to the article, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the monetary authority that is responsible for regulating the monetary provision in Japan. The article presents the economic inertia in the Japanese economy. Due to this economic inertia, the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has come up with an economic plan that has three parts in order to rescue the country from the stagnant economic situation. This move to trigger a growth in the Japanese has also been initiated by the Bank of Japan. The Bank of Japan has adopted expanding its plan of “quantitative easing” in increasing ...

Local governments have the responsibility of taking care of their residents and inhabitants. They borrow funds and loans to enable them to run their systems and structures effectively and with efficiency. However, some of the funds may be too huge for a local government to handle and may end up risking the economy of the state or government. An article in the Los Angeles Times by David Pierson in June 2009 raises the suspicion of a local government that has incurred huge debts that risk the operations and economy of the local government. According to the article, the local governments of ...

The development of landowner-farming contract is crucial. The main idea is the focus on transaction cost approach, which is essential on issues of contact choice between land owners and farmers in the modern agriculture. The model begins from focusing on the contracts that are found in Midwestern agriculture. The model stresses the various incentives that are associated with the contacts, as well as elaborating on the choice between the cash-rent contracts and cropshare contracts. The initial domain of developing the model focuses on the farming in Midwest, which entail ownership of equipment and ownership of land. The issues of ...

Prisons, Privatization, Patronage

Summary
The article, “Prisons, Privatization, Patronage” by Paul Krugman highlighted that the government’s decision to privatize prisons and related public services, such as halfway houses, has come to face its consequences—escaped prisoners committing crimes all over again, sometimes even worse than what they have been convicted for. Krugman cited The New York Times’ investigative reports on this issue and case stories on what has been taking place in the state of New Jersey. These studies reveal that such private facilities are inadequately managed, with insufficient number of personnel, and poor prisoner monitoring equipment. However, Krugman also ...

The Effect of Medicare and Medicaid on the Social Work Field

Introduction
The American society is at the cusp of transformative change. With Baby Boomers of the sixties now reaching retirement age, the proportion of older people in society is going to increase. A smaller base of working population will have to support a larger slab of older people. As a result, existing frameworks of social security, Medicare and Medicaid would prove inadequate. New ways and means need to be explored to sustain the concept of an equitable and caring society that has been built in the USA. In this context, it is essential to explore the effect of the changing ...

Incentives in the Workplace: Is Money the Key?

INTRODUCTION
While it is true that money matters in terms of financial gain and the gloriously pursuit to excel in accrual of revenues in business, research study and professional observational critiques have shown that monetary incentives in the workplace are not the key factor which motivates people in the workplace setting. The main article of referential focus, entitled ‘Social Incentives in the Workplace’ by economist research analysts Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, and Imran Rasul of the London School of Economics conducted a study which measures worker productivity as associated with rewards. Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul (2010) discovered some startling ...

In the near future, the healthcare problems in the U.S will worsen while new challenges arise. Even though various forms of new technology are on the verge of increasing efficiency, the overall costs for new treatments add outweigh the savings (Niles. 2011). The physicians will get better in treating problems while at the same time lengthening patients’ lives. This increases the levels of people in need of care. Similar to the automobile insurance policies, the healthcare coverage will be necessary (Matcha, 2003). Members of a family will use different plans through changing plans yearly. The uninsured citizens in the past ...

Offshore outsourcing has been an increasing trend in recent years. Businesses opt to have some of their operations handled by an outside provider due to its reduced costs. However, some companies tend to overlook a variety of things when it comes to client-vendor relationships. In outsourcing, it is important to note that the how the process really works is not as easy as it sounds like. Puranam and Srikanth (2007) debunked seven myths about offshore outsourcing, ranging from unrealistic expectations to poor ideas about structuring contract and convoluted views of risks. They further state that belief in these myths would ...

English

Tom Buchanan’s arrogance is a clear indication that he thinks highly of himself. This was shown by his flashy behavior by boasting that he has breeding knowing that he came from a very prominent family. His character is tainted with racism when he despised intermarriage between blacks and whites. His domineering behavior over his wife Daisy shows that he is a control freak. He treats every person around him as a commodity that he can buy with his money even his mistress Myrtle. His social attitudes manifest racism and sexism, by disregarding the moral standards he expects from others. This can be ...

Situations that might lead to unethical practices and behavior in accounting

Opportunity is one aspect that may lead to unethical practice in accounting. Accountants normally encounter or are involved in transactions that have large sums of money changing hands. As such, the constant access to this money may provide the best opportunity for an individual to start siphoning small amounts of money, which cannot be easily recognized since the transactions deal with huge amounts of money. For instance, in transactions that involve billions, an accountant may decide to be siphoning as little as 100 dollars. Increasing financial needs make people to seek opportunities that may lead to unethical practices.
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Bitcoin is purely peer-peer electronic cash that makes it possible for online money payments to be remitted directly from one party to the other without having to go through financial institutions. With bitcoin, digital signatures are considered part of the solution but the problem arises when the trusted third party is needed to curtail any form of double spending. The solution to this double spending lies in bitcoin; this is because it timestamps transactions by hashing them into a hash-based work proof. This makes it form a network that will not be altered unless the proof-of work is redone. Bitcoin has ...

What did you learn from this article?

The United States currency has for a long time been used in the international monetary system to facilitate cross border trade transactions. However, the global economic and financial crisis experienced in 2009 exposed the vulnerabilities of the U.S. currency. The effect of the crisis on the United States economy sent an array of fears among many users of the currency. On the other hand, China has emerged as a powerful participant in international trade.
The Chinese government facilitates a significant volume of trade across its borders. The Chinese government has openly challenged the reliability of the U.S. currency as a ‘key’ currency ...

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The incidental and descriptive details reveal that life in the village is hard due to poverty. From the description, it is clear that famine has plagued the village numerously. This has led to the lack of food. In addition, life in the village is full of gossip. This is clear from the conversation Muni has with the shopkeeper about the postman.
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Muni’s idea that the tourist is a police officer out to arrest him divides the U.S tourist and Muni. In addition, money also divides the two characters. The differing assumption and idea by ...

Customers make purchases daily with no clue about the pricing. Several studies show that when a customer picks an item and immediately is approached and asked for the price, almost half of them cannot give an accurate answer. Some of the customers underestimated the price and others had no clue of the price. The reality game shows the price is right on Columbia Broadcasting System depicts customers not being able to predict the accurate prices of an item presenting the consumers have vague information about the market.
Consumers rely on the retailers for pricing and often do not check ...

The article, “Can Money Buy Happiness?” by Arthur C. Brooks, goes on to talk about the hapless end of a lottery winner and questions if money is the key to happiness. It goes on to provide statistical data to prove that the average income of citizens in America has increased over the years, but the percentage of happy people has remained the same. The author draws the example of Russia, where post-Soviet accumulation of money in some hands led to others’ unhappiness.
The article further describes how adaptation takes away the happiness which one gets from something. In stark ...

In the article entitled “Can Money Buy Happiness?” written by Arthur C. Brooks and published in The American in 2008 presented an argumentative discussion asserting that money cannot buy happiness; but success can. One only partially agrees with the author’s affirmation since the measure for success was also financial remuneration, to wit: “financial status is the way we demonstrate to others (and ourselves) that we are successful” (Brooks, 2008, par. 34). One disagrees that this is the only way to demonstrate success. Some people could measure success in terms of merely fulfilling identified goals- which are not always ...

Terrorist financing involves providing funds for terrorist activities. This may include funds that has been raised from various legitimate sources for instance personal donations, gifts, business profits and also from charitable organisations, as well as funds from illegitimate or criminal sources such as kidnapping, piracy, drug trade, money laundering, extortion and smuggling of weapons. Terrorist have been using these and other techniques especially through money laundering and disguise as charitable organisations so as to evade being caught by the relevant authorities and also as a way of protecting the identity of the sponsors as well as that of their beneficiaries ( ...

This summary will reflect over the wonders of science through four articles. The topics that will be discussed are robots. Robots can be seen, in the developments, in many fields.
This field is constantly researching and updating because of our incredible technology developments of our society. The possibilities that might be able to accomplish through this could save a life and make our world even more powerful. That is the beauty of the power of science with robotics.
“Military Lays in Push for Robotic Ground Vehicles,” by John Markoff provides an in-depth picture of this robotic vehicle to ...

Introduction

The world food system has been in dynamism since the development of food trade and the need to create consumer preferences as demanded by every company or nation that had got the opportunity to produce, market and distribute food commodities (Leong-Salobir, 2011). This lead to expansion of agro-food based industries. This expansion however, being more effective and significant to the superior countries proved to be severe and detrimental to the colonized state. The Author puts the severity of this change as beyond the colonized nation’s individual’s health challenges. For instance the French food policy changes dictated the ...

Poverty is one of the debatable issues in the world. As a matter of fact, this is brought about by the fact that there are many people in the world who are poor. There are various approaches that have been used to measure and define poverty. Based on my understanding of poverty, it means that being in a position not able to meet the basic human wants. Poverty also goes beyond meeting the basis needs to touching on issues such as happiness and other values of life. I believe that poor people have no capabilities to meet what life demands. It ...

Analyzing an Article by Sara L. Rynes, Berry Gerhart, and Kathleen A. Minette

Thesis Statement

The paper of the statement can be summarizes as following: There are varying influences on motivation of workers and money is the most important one for the workers. The journals read by the professionals claim that the money is not the most influential motivator at work place. The study by Rynes, Gerhart and Minette claims that the professionals think that money is a motivation tool however they underestimate the power of money on workers’ motivation.
The HR specialists believe the surveys to understand whether the motivators ...

An overview of the Federal Transportation program is that in recent years it faced a lot of challenges since its inception years. Lack of funding is the most urgent problem that the program faces with trust fund for highways slowly heading towards the direction of bankruptcy. The public is not yet ready to embrace alternative sources of funding such as the mileage fees, road fares and income taxes. Priority has not yet been placed to investments on the national transport system and maintaining the existing ones but rather it is directed to developing high speed programs on railways.
Some ...

Evidence showing that RBA is justified in considering an interest rate fall

At the beginning of the month of May, the Australian cash rate was said to be at 2.75%. This statistic was achieved shortly after the May’s bank rates were cut by the Reserve bank of Australia. This marked the lowest cut level achieved in the last 53 fiscal years in this country. The RBA’s board should consider cutting the cash rate because of the prevailing economic conditions in Australia today. The country’s financial markets are currently trading at a 14% chance of suffering a 25 basis points reduction; this sentiment was echoed by Credit Suisse while advocating for ...

Introduction

In the United States, and in other developed countries, healthcare is treated more like a necessity than a benefit, contrary to the way how most developing countries prioritize the provision for healthcare and other health and wellness-related services, wherein it is perceived more like a luxury. This is one of the main reasons why there are a lot of thriving health and medical insurance companies in the U.S. and other developed countries. The citizens in those places are willing to pay a premium just to get the best healthcare services for themselves and their family members, who basically act as dependents in a family health ...

Governmental support is essential for developing projects that have a significant social impact but are not attractive enough for private businesses. Unfortunately, very often such projects bring little benefit to the people in need, while putting a burden on taxpayers. The “Wastebook” by Tom Coburn describes 100 different items in the Federal budget that add little value for the nation but contribute to the already significant taxes and country debt.
Although nearly all projects described in the “Wastebook” make little economic sense, some of them can actually harm the economy. Kachemak Voyager ferry that runs between the two small towns, ...

Article Review: Japan’s Growth Strategy is All Wrong

Abstract
The article Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the policies implemented by the Japan government led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that is viewed to jeopardise the country’s low interest rate environment that is conducive for spending and investment. The purpose of the student in writing this paper is to present the economic problem faced by Japan as an implication of the policies executed by the government, applying the concepts and principles that I have learned in my Economics.
The article entitled Japan’s growth strategy is all wrong is about the ...

Response to Post of Student 1:

I am convinced that the main paint being relayed was that at the onset, by having decided to pursue the profession in healthcare, practitioners have already manifested a genuine and innate drive or motivation to serve. Healthcare is such a challenging and dynamic endeavor that entices only those with distinct calling for the profession. As such, valance, or the perceived importance of the work is duly ingrained. Likewise, other motivational components (self-efficacy and expectancy) become motivating drives depending on the value systems and preferences of health workers. One therefore agrees that the provision of appropriate incentive systems could make the work ...

The essay is a true reflection of our reality. The education system is no longer what it used to be, it is not all about ensuring that the students have achieved their goals but it is more of a business. There is an increase in the number of colleges and also an increase in the intake but the quality of education is decreasing. This is because management of the colleges is no longer interested in making the students achieve, it is no longer an up close and personal relationship it is all about the money.
According to a college report presented ...

Introduction:

This article gives an analysis of the recession and the youth unemployment in EU. This gives much focus on the economy of countries like Spain, France and Italy in relation to their budget and the impact on the youth unemployment and the general effect on the economy. The article also shows measure taken by the European Commission in trying to curb the economic recession with help of various monetary and fiscal policies.(Basci,2007:19) The commission also gave the measures taken in relation to the debt crisis in Germany and the EU in general without much alteration of spending ...

Article Review

I agree with Holman on the issue of the invasion of financial privacy of innocent citizens. Offshore bank accounts should not be criminalized. Rather, offshore bank accounts play a key role in international diversification. This is especially so in times of government regulations and currency controls which are getting stricter. Offshore banking provides a way for having part of one’s wealth outside his or her country to avoid the risk of confiscation of assets and government freezes. However, the problem is that offshore bank accounts have always been associated with the negative things. They are viewed as avenues for corrupt ...

Introductory section

- Does this material define the primary government? The document has defined the primary government in which the city operates under as the council manger form with six members who are elected for a four year term.
- Does the introductory section discuss the government’s financial condition at the balance sheet date? The introduction briefly discusses the financial position of the government where it states that on a government wide basis, the city’s net assets grew by $19.6 million in that fiscal year which was generated by governmental activities it continues to state that the city’s combined ...

Summary

In the article M&A Needn’t be a Loser’s Game, which was published in the June, 2003 issue of the Harvard Business Review, the authors Larry Selden and Geoffrey Colvin (2003) described the results of their study where they identified some of the reasons behind the failure of most mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Based on their findings, they also provided recommendations on how to ensure the success of these endeavors.
Selden and Colvin (2003) cited that 70 to 80 percent of acquisitions failed, which meant that these acquisitions failed to create wealth for the acquiring company’s shareholders. ...

Women in Breadlines

Meridel Lesueur was a journalist for a newspaper, The New Masses. She wrote the article “Women on the Breadlines” that was published in January, 1932 in The New Masses. One of the myths about the Great Depression has been that women were protected from the destitution and homelessness by fathers and husbands. Instead families were broken up when resources so low everyone could not be fed. Old resentments and jealousies led to lack of cooperation. Young women who wanted to have some freedom instead of supporting their parents and siblings rebelled. Some ran away from the rigid rules in their families ...

D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking-Horse Winner" tells the tale of a family torn apart by perceptions of luck, fortune and success - of particular note is Paul, the young boy who understands, over the course of the story, that his mother does not love him or his siblings; he ends up coping with that (and his increasing illness) by creating a system for winning horse races by riding a rocking horse for hours on end, hoping to raise money to support the family. Paul in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" drives himself to illness and death due to the constant pressure and drive to chase ...

I agree with by Paul Krugman that inflation is till considerably low. Therefore, Fed should worry more about unemployment than inflation. The level of inflation is relatively low than 2% therefore, Fed should concentrate on reducing unemployment. The economy is currently recovering and the aggregate demand is also increasing so Fed should continue to apply expansionary economic policies to help the economy to fully recover. This should be the way to go despite Phillips curve argument that unemployment decreases then inflation increases because little increase in inflation may be less harmful if it creates more employment opportunities by encouraging ...

OPEN- ECONOMICY MACROECONOMICS

Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Regime, Determination of Exchange Rate in Free Markets:
Fixed currency exchange rate, or in other terms pegged exchange rate denotes the fixation of a currency value against any other currency or to a whole lot of other currencies. This is usually done for stabilization of the currency pegged to the other currencies. Floating Exchange Rate is the exchange rate of the currency value which is fixed by the free market. The exchange rate of a currency is variable depending upon the amount kept in foreign reserve and fluctuating demand and supply of the particular currency.
Another ...

The Midwest Independent transmission Operator (MISO) uses operation research techniques to determine which power plants are to be switched on or off in order to save energy and ensure optimal energy supply. The Operations Research methods used here set the energy levels and helps in determining the prices at which energy should trade. The new markets have helped in increasing the efficiency of the existing electric infrastructure and the improved reliability of the grid. MISO have accounted for energy savings for up to $3 billion for the first three years of existence. MISO implements the use of linear programming ...

The William Boston’s article titled “Merkel Backs Bond Buying Program” reports the move by the German Chancellor, at a summer news conference in Berlin, to back the process of buying bonds by the European Central Bank (ECB) in a move that could only be perceived as an endorsement of the ECB president, Mario Draghi, in a manner that would not in any way undermine the position of Germany’s Central Bank (The Bundesbank), whose president, Jens Weidmann, has been a strong critic of the bond-buying process. According Boston, Merkel, while professing her incertitude about the ability of Europe to establish a common regulator for ...

You know the day will not be a smooth one when you see your boss’ car parked in your spot, when you, as usually, arrive earlier at work. The book “The Goal” gravitates around the life and work of Alex Rogo, a Plant Manager within Uniware, part of UniCo company. Alex is a career oriented person, who tries to find a balance between his challenging work and his family life. As he follows two goals at the same time, he fails in both.
In the beginning of the book, readers find out that Alex’s plant is facing some troubles. Although he ...

The recent financial crisis and its causes.

Financial crisis is a situation whereby people lose confidence in the banking sector and therefore their investments in many countries is affected. The value of the assets owned by the financial institutions and other investors reduce in value to a great extent (WIEDEMER, 2012). This has adverse effects in the economy of many countries. The recent financial crisis has resulted to many problems in the whole world. According to the article by Gordon and Metric, the major cause of the financial crisis is the increase in debt of various countries. Both public and private debt was behind the cause of the ...

In her article, “East Africa Food Crisis 2011,” Shah describes how the worst food crisis is taking place in East Africa, namely in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. Published on July 31, 2011, on the Global Issues website, the piece explains how in spite of consecutive futile rains, the emergency has been assessed as unnecessary and man-made, as the situation had been foreseen numerous months prior by a global early warning system. Both international and local governments have been blamed for taking little action in the approach to this emergency. Furthermore, high food prices have caused many people to not be ...

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass wrote an article titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass’. This narrative aimed at the abolishment of slavery in the US (Douglass, 1845). The publication is primarily a work of political agitations. This is because his goal was to abolish slavery and convince his readers to fight for abolition. According to many individuals, his work was regarded as sentimental fiction. Furthermore, the book was more inclined towards racial stereotypes.

Sentimental literature can be defined as literature which was aimed at training and educating the sensibilities of the reader. This meant that the readers were able to respond ...

This article from the Harvard Business Review looks at how the “ single-minded pursuit of wealth often leads smart people to do incredibly stupid things—things that destroy what money can't buy.” . It provides a list of poor decisions, unethical conduct, booms, busts bubbles and the documentary that chronicles some of these events. After that, it explores some of the concepts from book entitled “money and the Meaning of Life” which Jacob Needleman wrote about twenty years ago. In that book Needleman points out that an individual’s personality is basically the same with or without money. He then goes on ...