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- 1381: The Permanent Campaign
- ... is also an advisor and member of the Free TV for Straight Talk coalition. The coalition is a group of 80 leaders from the worlds of politics, corporations, broadcast journalism, the entertainment industry and public interest groups. They support giving political candidates free air time on TV to promote their political views without the media s input. He has authored or co-authored recent books such as How We Can Get ... it would also prove to change the way candidates campaigned. In recent elections George Bush made his pollster, Robert Tetter, the chairman of his re-election committee. Teeter s polls showed that people had little interest in health-care issues so Bush neglected speaking on the issue and it hurt him in the election. While Bush was in office the Republicans used Teeter s polls to set party policy and the ...
- 1382: The Currency Crisis In Thailand And Its Effects
- ... crisis on each country. Thailand Thailand was the first economy to fall in July of 1997, creating a domino effect throughout Asia and beyond. Against the US dollar, Thailand was forced to abandon fixed exchange rates for the baht. This caused the baht to plummet more than 20%. In August of 1997 IMF responded by approving a $17.2 billion bailout package. After investigation by the IMF they concluded that hedge ... US$. Currently the ringgit is at 3.7999US$, showing a 33.68 decrease. After a healthy decade of more than 8% growth annually, Malaysia is bracing for a wave of bankruptcies, rising inflation and unemployment rates. More than 2600 Malaysians lost their jobs every week, according to the latest Human Resources Ministry report. Even some of the Malaysia's most successful corporations have scurried to court seeking protection against creditors. As ...
- 1383: Richard Warren Sears and Sears, Roebuck, & Company
- ... was too much for Alvah Roebuck. Richard Sears would take several financial gambles that would eventually make the company prosper but would cause Roebuck to become uncomfortable. In August 1895 Roebuck sold his one-third interest to Sears for $25,000. Although Roebuck decided to seek a quieter life, Sears had no intention of doing any such thing. He married Anna Lydia Meckstroth that year. She later gave Sears two sons ... the company, not hesitating to furlough them when he needed their paychecks to meet overdue bills. There was an obvious personality clash between the two which led to Sears and Rosenwald buying out Nausbaum's interest in the company for $1.25 million. Sears continued to prosper in rural markets, including the rapidly growing western frontier. This is because farmers in the West found the prices of merchandise too high at ...
- 1384: The Asian Financial Crisis
- ... Chinas bad bank debt at 18% of GDP however, the Tunnel, an accurate unofficial Chinese magazine, estimates bad debt at 70% of GDP. Now the way that the crisis has effected the US are interest on the 30 year bonds are at record lows and the US bond future, are at record highs. Last year Thailand canceled a $400 million purchase of eight F/A-18s made by Boeing. This ... and America is that Japan is plans a bank-bailout plan worth $573.7 billion. The US and Japan announced proposals to pump an additional $10 billion into troubled Asian economies. Japan is also lowering interest loans to help troubled Asian countries. The loans will be far project such as roads, bridges, power stations and airports, this will help Japan because the contractors must be Japanese companies. This should tell you ...
- 1385: U.S. Wage Trends
- ... been the preferred media. Because it captures the minds of most Americans, it is the preferred method of persuasion by political figures, multinational corporate advertising, and the upper 2% of the elite, who have an interest in controlling public opinion. Newspapers and radio experienced this same history, but are now somewhat obsolete in the science of changing public opinion. Though I do not suspect television to become completely obsolete within the ... and no need for millions of dollars of equipment. But, in reviewing our history, we find that newspaper, radio and television were once unregulated too. It is easy to see why government has such an interest in regulating the Internet these days. Though public opinion supports regulating sexual material on the Internet, it is just the first step in total regulation, as experienced by every other popular mass media in our ...
- 1386: Cost Benefit Analysis And Its Uses
- ... per dollar scenario. This does not follow the ideas of democracy we seem to want to follow. When it becomes possible for people to buy the CBA justice cannot follow. Unreliability: Shadow Prices and Discount Rates, 10.6. Another huge problem with CBA is the prices used in the study. It is very possible to accidentally, or intentionally, use fudged numbers, which drastically change the outcome of the CBA. Prices may ... this would be just try to make a budget for yourself and stick to it without exception, you will quickly learn what shadow priced are. Also to be considered is the difficulty in predicting discount rates. When you buy bonds you know what the maturity amount will be. When you invest in a stock you do not. The difficulty in predicting discount rate is that you think you are buying the ...
- 1387: Mark Twain 2
- ... better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and Jane only 15 years of age, she soon arried John. The family moved to Gainesboro, Tennessee where Jane gave ... and burning satire. Orion decided to publish the Journal daily and it gave Samuel an opportunity to write more material, but at the same time overworked him. When Orion deleted local news from the newspaper, interest was lost and the rival Messenger began outselling the Journal. This prompted Samuel to leave Orion and the Journal behind at the age of eighteen. He had bigger aspirations and vowed never to let a ...
- 1388: Explaining A Concept: Concept Of The Invisible Hand In A Laissez-Faire Economy
- ... hand discourages government from directing the economic activity. This invisible hand that Adam Smith refers to as a guiding force was the people and their attitudes. It all started with profit-seeking individuals. Using self-interest to feed their drive, people started businesses. When a business would become successful, others would notice and enter into the same field. As a direct result, growing consumer demand was satisfied while competition controlled rising ... farm; there would be enough to supply a large workforce. Paying all those laborers resulted in an army of consumers with money to spend. Adam Smith argued that an individual acting purely out of self-interest, would be a progressive force for the maximization of the total wealth of a nation. The role of the government should be permissive, creating a legal defensive setup sufficient to allow individual action. Interference with ...
- 1389: Compare And Contrast College P
- ... of professor's class, but in general the grades will be as low as the malicious professor can make them. The third type of professor is the uncaring professor. This type of instructor has lost interest in teaching; therefore, they do not put any effort into it. This professor can be recognized by their monotonous tone of voice and lack of interest of the subject. Their lectures only cover the basics of the material. They make no effort to appeal to the students' interests; consequently, most students can hardly pay attention. This type of instructor is reluctant ...
- 1390: Nostradamus
- ... his education for a while, but the family decided to send Nostradamus to Avignon, which at that period was the center of Renaissance learning. At Avignon, Nostradamus spent many hours at University libraries. Nostradamus' biggest interest was astrology. His interest in astrology began to worry his parents, and by the advice of his grandfather he was sent to the University of Montpellier to study medicine. The University of Montpellier was regarded as second only to ...
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