Module One: Text Questions
1. The financial choices we make impact our economy. Think of a recent item you purchased. What factors influenced your decision in making this purchase? Did this purchase impact your local economy? Explain why or why not.
A recent item I purchased was a Patte Kode yesterday with a few friends after a SGA meeting. The factors that influenced me to buy that item were my hunger, the near location of the Haitian establishment to my school, the price, and past experience of buying the patty. By going with four friends I was able to introduce three out of the four to the restaurant in turn creating more business and consumers for the restaurant which impacted my local economy through the money that we spent. The
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But I have been noticing that the quarter is no longer worth what it used to be, I’m not sure if this is because of a global factor or just a national factor but no longer do I get what I used to for a quarter. Last week my family and I went washing at a local laundry matt, while we were removing our clothes from the washer getting ready to placed them in the drier we realized that now instead of getting 10 minutes of drying time for one quarter it was now only 8 minutes. At first I didn’t think it was a major difference, I thought to myself, “Two minutes less oh well that’s not so bad”. It was until I put 75 cents into the machine I realized what a huge difference two minutes can be when multiplied. I was so annoyed because instead of putting three quarters in to dry my clothes I had to put four instead. In a way I felt cheated out of my quarter. In all with the drying of my clothes, my two sibling’s clothes, and my parent’s clothes we had to spend an extra $2- $2 that could have been spent on something else.
4. You are now familiar with government and how it plays a role in our economy. What are the advantages and disadvantages of governmental involvement? What changes would you make to improve government’s role?
The advantages of governmental involvement in our economy are the regulations and limitations set for business- such as setting a standard for minimum wage, regulating working conditions, preventing the exploitation of
The government should not be involved in the economy because too much government involvement can lead to a socialism and eventually communism. As in the Gilded Age many people lived in the absolute worse conditions. Such as working, payment, housing and just the area was horrible. Today still some on this happens here in America but mostly in other areas of the world. As history can tell you socialism and communism never works out for the government or the people.
b. Describe at least two ways in which the local, state, or federal government would have an impact on your business. (2-4
What are the main reasons why government should take only a limited role in a market economy?
Spending and Revenue are divided into ten categories, such as Investments, General Government, etc. Choose three spending categories and one revenue category to write about. What decisions to spend or cut did you make in each of the categories that you chose? Explain your choices. Be sure to read the pro/con arguments for each decision. Which arguments did you find most convincing?
Economically and politically, citizens are influenced by government. However, the government has never been completely favored. There are still individuals who disapprove of the style in which ruling may be viewed. In actions of that, the government incessantly corrects economics. Government exists for the sole purpose of protecting the distribution of private property along with conflicts among classes and using the Declaration of Independence as well as the Constitution as philosophical foundations to regulate inequality within society.
-Martin Industries just paid an annual dividend of $1.30 a share. The market price of the stock is $36.80 and the growth rate is 6.0 percent. What is the firm's cost of equity?
Question 1. How government purchases, in your opinion, have helped to stimulate or hinder the U.S. economy
4 Government is good at doing some things, and bad at doing others The Role of the United States Government Think of government like a scalpel, it can be used for good and bad depending on it's intent Government= A Monopoly? Sometimes. Government has to control some business- like the DMV. But others should probably be taken by private sectors- like mail services Pros Government Regulation Cons prevents unqualified entrpreneurs from becoming ivloved
There are many advantages and disadvantages to having the government regulate businesses. The government also affects many things I encounter daily. From schools, roads, and taxes I pay for goods, the government plays a huge role in each of these.
Governments should play a significant role in providing citizens with the basic requirements that every individual is in need of. Having the government being involved in our economic issues is an important stance. The government should ensure that citizens' fundamental and crucial needs are met, by helping them with health care, shelter and education.
Examine the major effects that government policies have on production and employment. Predict the potential effects that government policies could have on your company.
1. Using the five forces framework, how would you characterize the competition in the luxury goods industry?
Finally, the last section is the conclusion, which summarizes the report and evaluate of the techniques applied in the analysis.
Financial and Monetary Economics ‘‘Should we consider the Stock Market an efficient market.’’ In theory the Stock Market is said to be efficient as stock prices should follow a random walk, which, means that stock price changes should be random and unpredictable, If stock prices were predictable then this would prove that the stock market is inefficient as this implies that all available information was not already impounded in stock prices. Hence the notion that stock prices reflect all available information is known as the efficient market hypothesis (EMH). It was Professor Eugene Fama who created the term EMH, in his paper ‘Efficient Capital Markets’ and claimed that in efficient markets