56 articles on "economic"

The United States Vs. The Rest Of The World The Numbers Are In And They Are Not Good

As Americans, we like to tell ourselves that we are the best in everything we do. The biggest, the fastest, the smartest, etc. And while that may have been a true statement in the past, in looking at a slew of recent statistics and numbers from relia...

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The Delicate Art of Balancing the Budget

Delicate Art of Balancing the Budget by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Government budgets represent between 25% and 50% of he Gross Domestic Product (GDP), depending on the country. The members of the European Union (Germany, France) and the Scandinavian co...

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Economic Development: Balancing Public and Private Interests

The collection of essays in this symposium focuses on a single key issue in the somewhat parochial history of modern thought on local economic development: its tendency to promote contrasting patterns of growth and decline. Many are convinced that th...

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Are The Failed Japanese Government Economic Policies And Obamanomics One and The Same?

Robert Samuelson had an interesting article in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine, "Why Japan Fell And What It teaches Us." Mr. Samuelson reviews how Japan got into its current and long running economic slump, highlights of which include the follo...

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Pussyfooting Diplomacy

Every now and then the English language produces an interesting word filled with imagery. One of my favorites is "pussyfooting" as it describes how someone or something behaves cautiously or timidly like a cat before making a commitment to action. It...

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Recession-Proofing Employee Motivation

ssion-Proofing Employee Motivation by: Dr. Douglas Waldo c/o ARA Content (ARA) - As we hear more predictions of an economy showing signs of weakening, managers around the country are asking a couple of key questions: Are we prepared for a recess...

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Macro Morality

A nation is only as good as the character of its people. Most Americans consider the United States a good nation and prove it with statistics citing the massive amounts of money our government, charities, and philanthropists donate to third world cou...

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The Economy and Its Affect on America's Crime Rate: Past and Future

In the 1990s the crime rate in the U.S. dropped dramatically in all significant categories, including violent crime and property crime. Some experts attribute this drop to the strong economy that existed throughout most of the decade, when the per ca...

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Summer’s Interest Rate Mystery

Summer’s Interest Rate Mystery by: Mike Fitzpatrick The end of the Spring brought an end to the Federal Reverse’s view interest rates need to positioned in a way of stimulating the economy. For most of the past few years interest rates consi...

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Prepare Yourself to Fight Economic Circumstances

The tough time of financial crisis of these two years is stirring every nation to think towards a new dimension and develop new schemes to encounter the fatal strokes of economic crash! Even after the world economy recovers totally with style the dev...

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