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    want to leave France. We all found our seats, smiling from ear to ear ready to dig into our delicious French desserts. As we reminisced on all events of today’s tour, it dawned on me. I ran out of Euros. All I had was my credit card and 40 US dollars, the rest of my money was left in the safe in the hotel, more than 30 kilometers away from our little cafe. So I raised my hand and asked the waiter if the

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      Wal-Mart’s non-Chinese owned suppliers operating in China number nearly 5,000 and all of them benefit from a low valued yuan compared to the dollar.   The 176 million worldwide customers of Wal-Mart also benefit from the low valued yuan.   With nearly 70% of Wal-Mart’s products coming from China a sharp increase in the value of the yuan against the dollar can be devastating

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    services. If the economy is seeing a spike in prices at the grocery store that means there is inflation and the Federal Reserve can withhold dollars from entering the system – creating a lower amount of available dollars to spend, ultimately increasing the value of the dollar and lowering the prices at the grocery store back down to normal. The value of the American dollar can be a very powerful tool when it comes to the government trying to balance the American economy, the Federal Reserve could use this

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    the American footprint. The article however does state there are negative effects of the King Dollar – Low energy rate economy, yet it signifies there is major gain to the American economy based on the high dollar effect or value of currency. Some of the negative effects are to include depreciation of natural resources and high energy costs in production. In adverse, a few positive effects of the High Dollar – low energy ratio are to include a gain of profit and room for innovation to later encompass

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    their own currencies, using mostly coins from Portugal, Spain, France and England. However, there was no consistency among the states in exchange rates for these foreign coins, which made it difficult to carry out transactions. The creation of the dollar as the monetary unit and coinage for the new nation was logical and necessary because it helped to unify the colonies and to establish an identity for the new nation that was separate from its European origin. As a result of mercantilism, British

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    Answer 1: a. This article shows and gives an example of why people are going back to the agricultural life and abandoning the urban city life. Due to lack of jobs and low waged jobs, cause of education this has made it incredible hard to live life in the city coming from an agricultural background. Living check by check is the transition of rural to urban back to rural, lots of money is being lost when these rural people seek better opportunity and life in the city they are using their own money

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    can hire women for $100 dollars per month to assemble the shoes. In the past, previous manufactures have received push back from human rights activists stating the manufactures were adopting exploitive labor practices for similar wages. Assuming I am filling the role of upper-level management making this decision on behalf of my company, I would have to

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    House of Commons admitting that his company manipulated the LIBOR (the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate). LIBOR has been used since 1969 as a reference rate in the operations of international financial markets and become the basis for trillions of dollars of financial transactions. This case study gives background and overview on the events that lead to and who were all involved with what happened. Ethical challenges are ever present here with one institution dealing with corruption and perceived ‘cheating’

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    That means that the dollar was backed up my only trust, not gold. In the article, the author talked about reserving a hotel room using bitcoin. Once arrived, the hotel owner was showed much enthusiasm with the purchase. The owner, Jefferson Kim, discussed how “he liked that the currency was governed by a set of logical rules, rather than the mysterious machinations of the Federal Reserve”. Kim continuous on with other points such as a nickel bought things a century ago what a dollar can buy today. Kim

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    world’s payment system and take over our cash-based society (Wonglimpiyarat, 2015). It may be the payment system of the future but the vulnerability that it possesses is dangerous. In a recent event that resulted in the loss of around 1.8 million dollars, BitPay, an Atlanta-based bitcoin payment processor, was hacked. It was done by email and the modifications of a Google document. This is a huge security risk. Not

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