Essays on Hike

PART A (1000) In the online trading we have chosen three different contracts copper and natural gas and corn giving us a well balanced portfolio. Below is a clear explanation on each commodity traded in the Plus500 platform.

COPPER

Copper is considered as one of the oldest metal. This metal has a huge future predicted price as emerging markets opens up to increase their consumption levels. To date, the greatest consumers of this metal are the developed nations. The recent demand hike witnessed two years ago was a result of demand opening up in China and India. The greatest supplies ...

Proposal

Proposal

Taxoplasmosis a type of health condition in which the drug Daraprim is used to reduce. Turing Phamarceutical Company is the company that has bought the Daraprim drug and has hiked the prices to the highest margin. Martin Shkreli is the C.E.O of Turing who has attempted to explain and support the decision of the company to exorbitantly hike the prices of the much needed drug by patients and medical facilities. The controversial issue in this paper is the exorbitant increase of the Daraprim drug from $13.50 to $750 by Turing Phamarceuticals.

Introduction

There are a number of controversial issues ...

The Federal Funds Rate Hike

The New York Times, in an article by Binyamin Appelbaum entitled "Fed raises key interest rate for first time in almost a decade" discussed the pronouncement of the Federal Open Market Committee ﴾FOMC﴿ to increase the Federal Funds rate. The decision came exactly seven years after the financial crisis in 2008 when the FOMC reduced its rates to near‐ zero level to prevent the economy from collapsing. The article described the move as signaling the beginning of the end of the Fed 's stimulus program and highlighted the Fed statement that the Fed intends to increase the rates gradually ...

There are certain events in our society that can affect the course of our history, but there are events that are a direct reflection of how our society is structured. Ever since we are born we are socialized in order to function in our society and this varies from place to place. Our society is made of unspoken regulations and laws that function as a form of social control. What we also see in our society are hierarchies; we see them with gender, race, and especially class. At times we deny that there is prejudice in our society, but ...

Income Statement:

Balance Sheet: Cash Flow Statement: Statement of owner’s equity: Risk and Return Scenario:

As of the year 2014, the company is expected to be in good profit numbers. The company is one of the biggest chemical manufacturers in the world and operates on string business models and strategies. Over the years, the company has shown significant growth in profit figures and the same is reflected in its stock price appreciation and dividend payouts. Some of the favorable return strategies of the company include:

- Driving innovations in its products so as to address ...

Is mandatory minimum wage hike to $15/hr good or bad for managers?

After a lengthy period of lobbying for increment of the minimum wage, Seattle became one of the first cities in the US to pass the law and begin its implementation on April 1 2015. The push to have the law passed for other places is gaining momentum with San Francisco adjusting its minimum wage to $11/hour and has plans to raise it to $15 by mid 2018 (ShiftWa). Other cities such as Berkeley are on course to increase the minimum wage to $12.53 next year. The law if passed in other states targets to increase the minimum wage from $7.25/hour ( ...

Summer is the time of pleasure and excitement. Since my childhood, I have always enjoyed my summers by going on long trips and exploring new places. Vacations are exciting as they help to relax and keep oneself away from the regular work. When the last summer holidays started, I couldn’t make up my mind on where to head for the vacation. Finally, my friends came up with the thought to go to Montana for a long trip during the vacation. For a person like me who hails from Saudi Arabia, a trip to the mountains was a real excitement. It was a week-long ...

I am an employee of the Oxfam Pvt. Ltd organization presently working in my home city i.e. Chicago. I am an assistant marketing manager at the regional office of Oxfam Pvt. Ltd. My annual pay (about $52,000) has been stagnant for four years now and just recently I found it hard to cope to with the rising inflation rates. So, one day I decided enough is enough; I need a raise in my salary and made up my mind to approach my boss and voice my demands.

After finally deciding to raise my opinions to the boss I thought ...

Indirect Health care cost of obesity

Total Cost of obesity

In this research presentation the author will discuss how obesity in United States of America impact health care costs. This topic will be approached from the perspective of direct and indirect costs. Direct cost is related to treating obesity as a health disorder in itself without accompanying complications. Indirect costs emerge from associating medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, heart failure and arthritis among other serious diseases medical science is now discovering. These add up to what can be considered the total health care costs of obesity in United States of America.

Research Paper: Impact of Obesity on Health Care Costs

Introduction

Obesity in United ...

Introduction

Interest rate, especially the repo and reverse repo rate set by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have a profound effect on the value of real estate like any other investment vehicle. Because of great influence of the interest rate on an individual’s ability to purchase houses by increasing or decreasing the cost of the total mortgage amount, many people assume that interest is the only factor in real estate valuation. However, this assumption is not true. Interest rate definitely plays a big role in determining the housing prices, but it is not the only factor influencing the price of a ...

Recommending prolific changes in the monetary policy

This assignment is being submitted on July 13, 2015 The Chair U.S. Federal Reserves Washington D.C.

Dear Madam,

The international monetary fund has lowered the global economic growth rate by 0.2 points to 3.3% and causal for the same is chain link between stable and crisis struck economies. The prevailing economic scenario across the world is extensively affected by the vagaries of crisis struck nations, Greece and China (Zeng, 2015). Although both countries are resorting to possible stabilization, the resultant impact of their economic upheavals is imminent over US economy. As monetary policy adopted by the Federal Reserve ...

Assignment on financial planning for

This assignment is being submitted on July 12, 2015 Introduction As per the prevailing conventions in online gaming industry, the startups are often directed in the way, which their financial planning guides them to. Instead of aiming towards profit generation during initial 3-4 years, the objective behind running the business should be focused at marketing its core competencies and building the customer base (Arders, 2014). If the above two notions are maintained aptly, coupled with consequent rise in revenues and steady overhead costs, the profit attainment for the business can be ratified by the beginning of 4th ...

The economic crisis in Egypt post January 2011

Abstract The paper looks into the economic crisis in Egypt and how the background was formed for the January 2011 revolution. How the crisis happened, what were the consequences and how Egypt can get back on track are some of the important questions that need to be looked into. The stability of the Mubarak regime was well under pressure even before the major changes in the political system followed. Even before the present revolution and reforms in Egypt, there were significant changes taking place in the political system. The nation was experiencing relative freedom of expression for the ...

An Economic Question

In regards to the economic question of whether or not it is wise for municipalities to tax consumption, one could argue that it is economically prudent to do so. Although states may be allowed to tax certain goods or services, such as meals and lodging, municipal taxes on top of the state taxes ensures that local municipalities also get a portion of the revenue derived from the overall taxation of the good or service. Although some economists may argue that consumption taxes, such as those imposed on meals and lodging are regressive and not progressive (the way that income ...

The dire consequences of cigarette smoking and tobacco consumption are known to everyone.

Governments across nations have tried to curb the habit smoking through taxes on the tobacco industry. In the United States itself there are federal and state specific taxes on cigarettes. In news published in Washington Times in 2014, United Nations issued an approval for countries globally to increase the taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products. According to this sanctions, the countries which have signed the anti tobacco agreement of UN will have to enact an excise tax equal to at least 70 percent of the retail price of tobacco products. The World

Health Organization also resonated with the approval and said that the health costs that have to

be ...

Proposal to Hike College Tuition Fee by University of California

[Institute] For people who currently reside in the state of California, referred to as in-state residents, the total tuition fee for the University of California could rise to about $12,804. In five or six years’ time, this increase could push the total tuition price to $15,564. This expense does not include room costs, dining, board and books. UC has made this decision to charge more money in order to provide better facilities to its students. This reason has led the UC system President Janet Napolitano, to dishonor her previous statement and not fulfill the hike freeze ...

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Executive summary

In understanding cost and pricing dynamics in relation to profitability, at least four issues face the cost accountant in tracing product or service costs, the value of which will be used as an essential input in pricing decisions. These are complexity, accuracy, ease of estimation, and time. Joint cost allocation is an example of a complex cost tracing due to inevitable data gaps. Sunk costs exemplify a type of cost the accountants normally consider as marginal and, therefore, may be ignored in the cost trace. Opportunity costs also possess a unique characteristic in its “potentiality” by nature, although quantifiable based on ...

What concepts did the match game illustrate?

Alex Rogo invented the match game in order to create the ideal system describing the dependent events and statistical fluctuations in the manufacturing plant. He imagined that the bowl is the resource and the amount of the matches in the bowl is the capacity of each resource, in the actual plant it is the capacity of the certain worker. The match game had shown that the more chains are involved in the process the more the system is balanced and the less is the range of statistical fluctuations. There is certain planned output for each plant. According the ...

Article Review

Article 1 Published on: October 22, 2014

The Summary The tax cut policy followed by Kansas has led to a shortfall in the revenue this year. The tax revenue collected in the fiscal year 2014 was $700 million less than that of the previous year. According to the director of taxation Steve Slotts, this revenue shortfall is temporary in nature. This temporary deficit is being met through the expenditures from the reserve fund. But the revenue shortfall in the first three months of the fiscal year 2015 that began in July 2014, suggests that this shortfall is permanent. ...

Introduction

One of the most fascinating hiking places in the world is the Sierra Nevada, which is located in California State of the United States of America. Most of the features and the landscape provide the best solution for the hiking fanatics. I still remember the terrain that offers varied temperature that provides the hikers with the sense of desert temperature and at the same time ice-cold temperature depending on the different topography. The experience at the Sierra Nevada hiking gave me an opportunity to enjoy one of the most beautiful landscapes in the world found on the range. Hiking ...

[Title of Institution] Derby, M. (2014, July 3). Robust June Hiring Moves Forward Likely Fed Rate Hike, J.P. Morgan Says . Retrieved July 4, 2014, from The Wall Street Journal Website: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/07/03/robust-june-hiring-moves-forward-likely-fed-rate-hike-j-p-morgan-says/?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories Summarize the article: The article spoke about the strong employment rate that seems to favor the second half of 2014 in the US. This was something that was not expected by the Feds. Thus, they have projected interest rate to be closer to zero to compensate for the declining economy and help somehow raise expenditure by encouraging consumers to borrow from the bank. However, in the wake ...

Introduction: With data explosion and availability of everything via internet there is a transformation in the area of ethics, risk and compliance. It has become easy to track and trace misdoings, and illegal transactions.. Though, there have been sufficient measures to prevent risk and compliance, they have become ineffective now. The norm of compliance and averting risk has changed many folds. New and tough measure of deploying compliance and risk is mandatory. According to Keith Darcy an Independent Senior Advisor at Deloitte, the top five accounting and consulting firm, “Good Enough” is just no longer good enough (Deloitte.wsj.com, 2014). Mr. ...

Kingsborough Community College

Identify the Problem The problem is about the minimum wage experienced by most of the people working in public or private levels. Minimum wage is one of the challenging actual problems faced by many companies; however, there is always a possibility that this type of problem can be solved accordingly.

Explain the Problem

Minimum wage as an actual problem faced by many companies in public and private levels, probably the most talked about problem in the community. This problem does not matter how big or small is the company, it usually occurs when work and wages are involved. However, minimum wage has a ...

- What features of the landscape are significant to the placement of the trail? There are a lot of features of the Wallace Falls’ landscape. Majority of which are just so magnificent to be treated natural. The trails basically function to connect the different landscape and other geographical features of the Wallace Falls State Park. Some of the best features and landscapes that the trails connect—which necessarily makes it significant include the three greatest falls in Wallace River, the coniferous forests that surround the state park’s land areas, and the rivers, streams, and lakes that intensify the ...

Several events have taken place in various parts of the world. Most people do not analyse them but just hear their impacts. Anything to do with households has some aspects of economics. Economic analysts, reveal that, the events are highly associated to microeconomics than macro-economics. However, high intensity of macroeconomics' impact means indirect microeconomic impacts to the households (Backhouse, Roger, & Steven, 2009). The economic theories explain the impacts of these events in relation to their causes. For example, it is of interested concerning the the theories that had influenced the occurrence of world events such as depressions and ...

President Obama and the Republicans are really engaging in a bitter war against both sides when it comes to the topic of health insurance for Americans. This research paper will discuss the major issues that exist between the Republicans and President Obama with the Affordable Care Act. I will compare the pros and the cons of the new law. I will explore who will benefit from this law in which has been nicknamed as “Obamacare”. Why are the Republicans fighting so hard to stop this law? How much will it cost the government?

Republicans’ stand

There were claims that the Patient Protection ...

a)

Lt. Gov. Michael mars completed the statewide tour today.

Mars is coordinating the state drought assistance

He called it an eye opening experience. The southern half has been hit hardest by the drought. The 15768 Sturbridge residents are within 30 days of water shortage. Mars described the situation as worse than people realize The state could receive federal support. This is after it submitted an application last week The federal decision will be made tomorrow. This could end the drought, which had lasted for two months b)

Montana’s prison guards have been on strike since four days ago.

1600 national guards have been called to duty in the prisons.

National guards started today after 5000 guards went on strike.

Elsewhere, ...

One nice spring day, my friend and I were at my parent’s house in New Hampshire. After a long chat, we suddenly decided to go on a hike to enjoy the spring air. It was not just an ordinary hiking because we wanted to climb up Mount Washington. We asked ourselves if this is really, what we wanted to do. Well, we were very determined to take on the biggest challenge in our whole life though were both not so sure what we were getting into. As if, nothing could stop us to do what we wanted to do. We ...

It’s been almost 32 years since the landmark and historical strike between PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controller Organization) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The strike changed and revamped the way worker unions worked and the way governments negotiated with them. The strike and its implications still find their effects in modern day America and are reflected in the way private companies treat their employees. The strike that started on August 3, 1981 set a precedent for future union strikes and curtailed their powers and influence to a very large extent. Not only Ronald Regan, the then President of United States, ...

Memorandum

ID:

Section Leader: [Section Leader Name]

Re: Obama’s Small Business Tax Increase Dear Mr. President: Objective I am writing to inform you on the up-to-date state of the increase in tax that is to be put on small businesses in the country and give an explanation on the adoption of certain economic policies that impact on the same issue which conflict other policies that can be alternatives and also submit my opinion to those who make the policies on how they could have bettered the adopting the specific policies at hand.

Summary of the issue

As you know small businesses are a source of dynamic ...

Summary

Minimum wage legislation is a very popular and populist issue. There are both economic and social needs to be addressed in the matter. There are also very highly opposing positions in the discussions. There are many arguments in favor minimum wage legislation. Perhaps, the most important among them are four rationales: poverty alleviation, reduce wage inequality, employee protection, and economic stimulation. Meanwhile, among the four more important arguments against minimum wage legislation are: increased unemployment, aggravated poverty, increased high school drop-out rate and prolonged unemployment periods, and reduced global competitiveness. In the light of the present world economic ...

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify how the healthcare system has notable affects on social and functioning bodies dependent on the healthcare system. Healthcare is also affected by decisions from nationwide governing bodies distribute financial and medical aid where individual people can make their own decisions and play out the key microeconomic concepts to achieve the most beneficial medical plans. The healthcare system in North America constantly experiences changes to its healthcare plan regardless how protocols differ between the U.S. and Canada. The decisions implemented by individual members act as the instigators to change when they foresee ...

1) Hello, my name is Richard Burr, and I am a Republican senator representing the state of North Carolina. I was elected in 2004, and am on my second term currently, which will expire in 2016. I was born November 30, 1955 in Charlottesvilla, Virginia, and grew up in Winston-Salem. I received my BA in 1978, and I am married with children. Before my career in the Senate, I worked as a national sales manager for Carswell Distributing from 1978-1994, at which time I was elected to the US House of Representatives. I remained in that position until 2004, when I ...

Chapter 6: Inmate wages

Question 1(a): Should you include jail training on your resume? I would consider my interests first and leave out my jail training experience from my résumé. Many might consider this selfishness. However, I would argue that the mistake that landed me in jail was in no way connected to my ability to do the upholstery job. b) Does the nature of the “mistake” influence the response in the question 1(a) ethically? The nature of the mistake does influence the consideration of whether I should acknowledge my jail training on my résumé. If the mistake ...

The following paper has been written in order to explain in detail the various principles that are applicable in economics. The paper has been written with the view to make the audience aware of the principles of economics and how they are implemented in a cross section of market. In order to understand the principles, it is important to understand the basic philosophy underlying business practices. The paper is intended to acquaint the audience regarding these ideologies thus understanding economics. Economists estimate billion of dollars being spent by the society due to alcohol and other related problems¹. Misuse of ...

Beyond any reasonable doubt, cigarette smoking causes more harm than good to both the smoker and the surrounding. However, people continue to smoke. Ask any adult smoker the reason behind smoking and you’ll never get a convincing answer. The truth is that most smokers start when they are young, especially in their teens, and get so much addicted when they become adults. Trying to quit cigarette smoking has become an uphill task to most smokers since the drug is readily available, very cheap, and so much addictive. Research and statistics reveal that smoking highly affects human health and greatly ...

Abstract

Gender Difference in Negotiating

It is widely believed and expected that women tend to be more reserved than men when it comes to express their interests at the workplace. They tend to shy away from being vocal about their rights or their dues. In other words, it is almost certain that women don’t ask for much. Whatever they fear for may not be definite or defined, but they definitely have a problem when it comes to negotiating their compensation rates as compared to their male counterparts (Booth, 2009).

In exploring this aspect, Babcock and Laschever (2003) conducted a study about ...

This paper examines the effect of Obama's new raise of taxes to business on employment. The impact of raising taxes to business is discussed with relation to employment. The outcome of labour market is a significant measure of household well-being during an economic crisis more so to the middle class and low class population where employment is the main source of income. Understanding of whether rising of taxes on businesses affect business is thus essential. An increase in taxes definitely hurt small and medium enterprises. This is because they will have to pass the cost to the consumers. This ...

Introduction.

This essay looks at the theory of predation and recoupment in business and market analysis. The essay makes a preview of existing legislature on predation and recoupment practices and its efficiency. They also analyzes various cases of alleged predatory practices and the outcome of these cases, benefits accrued, damaged caused and the court ruling if any. (Bolton et.al.2006)From the discussion, I drew findings, which try to identify and vindicate the type of market that the practice is common or is possibly practiced. I also give a critique on the matter and finally outlines the recommendation in the conclusion.

Methodology.

The theory ...

California University Tuition Hikes and Students Protests

The year 2009 saw one of the most effective students’ protests in the University Of California System, UCS. The protest started in September 2009 and continued throughout the year (Ayres, 2009). As students protested, they were joined in by other persons, notably faculty members, varsity employees and parents (Duke, 2009). Although there were protests all over the country due to hiked tuition fees, the University of California System was the most affected, as students protests over a 32% increase in the amount of money paid for tuition per annum (Duke, 2009). This had been an initiative of the universities throughout ...