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Are Stressed Municipality Budgets and Legacy Costs Affecting Our Water Treatment Facilities?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is quite serious when it comes to its NPDES permitting and its rules for sewer treatment plants or POTW's. The water coming out of a sewer treatment plant must be almost perfect before it is released. There are obvious reasons for this, namely that ther...More...
Is Raising Minimum Wage Going To Help Us?
My profession is not studying the economy, but I can definitely see all the pros and cons pertaining to raising minimum wage. If they raise it to fifteen dollars an hour, it could be a serious problem for both companies and consumers. Businesses are run on operational costs based on categorical perc...More...
Wealth Pie Distribution Effect on Economic Growth
The forest was in chaos. Parts of it were burning and the food was scarce. The animals went to seek advise from an old owl on how to reset the forest's economy....More...
The US Economy and the Crash of 2008 in Laymen's Terms
There has been a whole lot of talk about the stock market crash and whereas folks pretty much understand the real estate market crash, because their homes are worth less than they owe on them; still, many people do not get the stock market crash or even why it crashed. You see, many folks did not ha...More...
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Why Wall Street imploded in just a few days? Who is really to blame? Why won't it be fixed for years? How can you turn straw into gold? When everyone else is moaning about their lost jobs, their decimated savings and plummeting portfolios and their foreclosed homes, those who have learned a few...More...
The Business of Education in America
The education system is being divided on the basis of ability to pay banks. The nations needs are becoming secondary to those of financial institutions. The wealthy are using the very model to prepare their children for college that the federal government is rejecting for main stream America. Why is...More...
Interest Rates and the World Economy
There is no effective way to measure the source of funds as well as the amount of funds each bank and lending institutions have. This would mean facing difficulty in making estimates as to the credit facilities and funds that they have available for lending to business enterprises and individuals. T...More...
Fuel Prices Could Hinder Trucking Industry Growth
This article discusses the effect of rising fuel costs on the trucking industry. It looks at how the high fuel costs cause a ripple effect within the greater economy and how other factors contribute to the slow recovery of the trucking industry....More...
Is Former Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan to Be Blamed for the 2008 Economic Crash?
One thing I find in today's mass media political rhetoric is there are far too many people running around blaming people they don't know for things which clearly aren't their fault; but why is this you ask? It's because quite frankly we have too many pundits on TV who simply have...More...
The Trouble With Using TARP For the Current US Auto Industry Bailout
The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) was set up by the United States Government as part of its response to the (almost) Wall Street crash of autumn 2008. OK perhaps the word crash is perhaps over stated but lets be honest the DJIA did still plunge some 6000 points at its worst and enjoyed some ...More...
Dagong It - China Has Threatened to Lower Us Debt Rating without a Near Term Debt Limit Deal
Well so far we have warnings from various rating agencies that if the Congress and the Obama Administration do not come to terms for a Debt Limit Deal soon, that the United States debt rating will fall off a cliff into the abyss. We've read about Standard & Poor's warning and Moody's ...More...
The Financial Crisis Explained to Joe the Plumber
When many people lose half of their retirement plan, they deserve an explanation. Our experts seem to be confused. A down to earth approach leads to the idea that we have a message to learn: Use paper money but don't abuse it....More...
Unemployment Rates Increasing - What's the Way Out?
It seems as if recession is not in a mood to leave. It has arrived predator-like and growling, just as a lion would haunt its area, through around 50% of American households. These influenced households stand on the losing end of a frightening dream....More...
International Industrial Development Is Leading to World Unification
International alliances will become increasingly centered on specific long term goals of industrial production and distribution and less on military or ideological needs as was the case in the 20th century. The essence of 21st century competition is competition in efficient product output and jockey...More...
Lessons From Ireland on Economic Growth
For most of the past 300 years or so Ireland has had the dubious distinction of being a country more known for the hardships suffered by its inhabitants than for its beautiful countryside. While people in other parts of the United Kingdom and in Europe enjoyed a relatively high standard of living Ir...More...
Riding It Out On The Great Financial Roller Coaster - The United States' Early Panics: Part 2 of 4
In this 4 part series we will examine the rich history, no pun intended, of financial crises in the United States. In part 1 of this 4 part series, we learned the definitions and terms used to explain financial crises in general. Now we start with one of the most devastating financial crises to ever...More...
Why the Bank of England Rate Cuts Are Having Limited Success
The Council of Mortgage Lenders have released statistics showing a slight increase in the level of mortgage lending in October. Gross mortgage lending was 18.7 billion, up from the 17.5 billion lent in September, but down 44 per cent compared to the same month a year ago when the figure was 33.4 bil...More...
Another Wave of Social and Economic Progress
Our united auto workers ought to be selling electric automobiles. With all that money that we pay united auto workers, they should have the resources to figure it out. As far as I can tell, the engineering is already done. It is just a matter of the banking and the corporate leadership and all that....More...
Should Dubai Ports World Deal Be Economy Or Security Concerned?
Dubai Ports World, an Arab company, showed a great deal of interest on November 29, 2005 to acquire The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ("P&O") a British company for 3.3 billion. P&O is one of the top four international port operators with 29 container terminals and operat...More...
G20 Economic Summit Comes to Toronto
The weekend of June 26 will see Toronto host another one of these economic summit circuses. Well in advance, the battle lines have been drawn. ...More...
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