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Birth of the Disease - The Story of Medicare and Medicaid
The unfunded liabilities. What is their history? Where on Earth did they crawl from? We know that like a creature spawned from an alien ship crash, the ground in America shook during the twenty straight years of baby booming - and this is when the monster started coming out - attracted by the smell ...More...
New Homes Industry: The Key To Job Creation And A Better Economy in Nigeria
At her recent swearing in as Finance Minister for the second time around, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reportedly declared, "I am here to create jobs." That is music to the ears of all Nigerians, including the reported and staggering 40 million job-seekers and those who know that lack of employment...More...
The Evolved and Enabled Envious Employees - Union Labor and Economic Trouble
It seems like every time a troubled industry starts to make money, the labor unions in those large companies in those industries demand more money, and if they don't get it, they will strike. This is one reason the airline industry cannot re-invent itself, innovate, or buy more fuel-efficient a...More...
Singapore Ranked #1 For Best Quality Of Life In Asia- Report By Singapore Corporation Setup Firm
Singapore has retained its #1 ranking for offering the best quality of living in Asia. The quality of living survey conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting assessed 221 major cities of the world on parameters such as socio-political environment, economic environment, natural environment, housi...More...
What Happens When the Fed Runs Out of Money?
Can the Federal Reserve run out of money?How long can they go and what will happen if they do?...More...
Financial Crisis Bail Out
I personally do not believe that a 85 billion dollar financial crisis bail out, or whatever figures Congress comes up with, will help out the common person or the current crisis. Think about it! Do you really believe that the real interest now is in yours or my well being?...More...
Working Women and the Recession
A surprising look at how the recession and recovery have affected women in the workplace. The recession affected millions of people, and in the beginning men were impacted way more than women. However, that is not the end of the story....More...
Buy Local Programs Work - When Cities Work With the Business Community
Economic times are tough and many cities are feeling the pain, as much of their money and revenue is generated from sales tax, but when people are not buying, there is not much sales tax revenue and with fuel prices down even less. Worse, auto sales have tanked and folks cannot get loans to buy cars...More...
Deficits Not the Problem - They Are the Solution!
Deficits have in the modern era been the only effective tool the federal government has had in its arsenal to fight recessions, and especially serious declines such as during the Great Depression. So are federal deficits the problem today, or the solution?...More...
The Global Economic Crisis - Reasons and After Effects
The author explores the global economy climate. He affirms that global economy has contracted so high this year for the first time since World War II. The author observes the main reasons of Global Economic Crisis. He explores influence of the crisis on Business. In this connection he analyzes. As a...More...
Hydropower As A Major Player In The Energy Game
Hydropower has been a slumbering giant in the energy game. Since the 1960s, its use has actually gone down compared to other energy sources. This is beginning to change. ...More...
The Coming Tsunami
Your currency is already worthless - buy gold while you still can. The real recession hasn't even begun. Once the West has exhausted its prodigious borrowing capacity the collapse will accelerate, taking China and Japan with it. I reiterate: Buy some gold - now!...More...
The Great Depression And Its Downward Economic Spiral: Part 2 Of A 3 Part Series
In part 2 of this 3 part series, we'll deal with the effects of the fall out from the Great Depression. In part 1we explored its causes, but how devastating was it to the American people? By 1930 shanty towns or squatter communities, bitterly known as "Hoovervilles", began to sprout u...More...
US Government Influence on Current Crude Oil Prices
Crude oil prices are getting higher and higher and there is not much that we can do about it as individuals. We cannot change the prices, we can only hope that the prices are affordable, and if they are not we might as well turn to another source of energy. But there surely must be a reason for thes...More...
Consumer Price Index (CPI): Does It Measure Inflation?
The Federal Government relies on the CPI as the "official" measure of inflation, however is it accurate? Once we peer into what the CPI is and HOW it is calculated we quickly learn that we are no longer measuring inflation, but rather the Cost of Living....More...
About Spain - Change & The Economic Dilemma
Every model is an abstraction that adds noise to the communication. It's the risk of over-simplification. However, the advantage of a model is that it offers a starting-point for a discussion....More...
Where Do Your Income Tax Dollars Really Go? Sickening!
Think about the word "debt based" for a moment. With a "debt based" currency (dollar), the debt level has to increase by a certain amount every month or the dollar will begin to devour itself....More...
Iran's "Major Economic Surgery" Now a Reality
Iran, as a country between globalization and isolation, tradition and modernity has had an utmost importance at the international arena. Recently, this increasing attention has focused almost on the same issues such as nuclear program of Iran, UN sanctions. Nevertheless, economic performance of Iran...More...
Difference Between Economic Development and Economic Growth
Economic development refers to the problems of underdeveloped countries and economic growth to those of developed countries. The raising of income levels is generally called economic growth in rich countries and in poor ones it is called economic development....More...
How Does Inflation Affect the Economy?
In light of the recent news developments, this is a very important question.Economic inflation poses a threat to everyone in our society, from the affluent elite to the impoverished poor.No good or service is left untouched from the effects of rampant inflation. How does inflation affect the economy...More...
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