Essays on F.S.A.

December 12, 2010

Inflation in Macroeconomics

The most effective indicator of country’s economic health is its financial state. Financial system not only provides interconnections in economics, but also conducts macroeconomic regulation, and serves as a tool for governments to regulate economic development. For this reason, the activity of executive power in every country is directed towards stability of financial and credit system and overall financial state. In order to ensure the stability, inflation processes must be controlled. It is necessary because inflation results in harmful socio-economic outcomes: inflation leads to deformation of macroeconomic regulation instruments. Inflation is a process of price level ...

This paper is going to discuss the European sovereign debt crisis of 2010 to date, and especially the crisis that hit two particular governments in the sovereignty, Greece and Ireland. The two governments have recently received bailouts, or financial support from the EU/ IMF following the two nation’s financial crisis of 2010. The two countries had similarities in regards to the support owing to the fact that the two states had troubles with their government finances. The causes of the troubles, in addition to the terms of the support received by each nation, and the prospects of the ...

Arguably, no country is ready to stand the effects of inflation, recession and rising rate of unemployment. Monetary policy is a method used by monetary authority of a country to regulate the supply of money in the economy. In most cases they use rate of interest in order to promote stability, growth, stabilization of prices and regulating the level of unemployment. Fiscal policy on the hand entails use of taxation and government spending to control the economy.

According to my colleagues, they recommend the president to lower rate of interest. In this case the president doesn’t have any power to ...

The aim of this report is to enhance understanding of the managers at the P &G through an intelligence analysis of the main competitors, and the comparison between the company and its main competitor. Unilever International Corporation has been investigated in detail as the main rival to the company. Its current market analysis has been elaborated in detail, while its current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat are explained in detail in the SWOT analysis section. Opinions on the industry and the marketing strategies have been sought from various sources, in order to allow managers to understand what the ...

1. What were the causes of revolution in the British colonies of North America in the 18th century; France in the 18th century; and Mexico in the 19th and 20th centuries? The feeling of inadequate representation caused unpopular unrest that led to revolutions in France, America and Mexico. Americans opposed taxation without representation and in France, heavy taxation and king’s incompetence made the people rise up to overthrow the political establishment. In Mexico, oppression of the majority by a clique of powerful elite made the masses take up arms. Desire for equality and freedom informed these revolutions. ...

Introduction

An economic indicator refers is statistics which in most cases is issued by the government and indicates the growth and stability of the economy. Some of economic indicators include the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation rates, employment rates, consumer price index and changes in money supply among others. They apply in analyzing business conditions in a country.

Gross domestic product is the sum of all good and services produced within a country in a given fiscal year valued at the prevailing market prices. It can be measured using either income or expenditure approaches. Many governments use the GDP in estimating the economic ...

Abstract

The Spanish economy was not adequately developed until the 1980s. It was liberalized when Spain joined the European Union (EU) in 1986. The government then began numerous programs aimed at economic reforms. In the 1990s the economy demonstrated steady progress until 2007 when it began to decline. In 2009, it contracted by 3.7% when compared to 2008 when a growth rate of 1.1% occurred. This was caused by many factors including; reduced external and domestic demand; decline in international environment; struggling stock markets; burst real estate industry; and high unemployment rates. The Spanish government has put several measures in place ...

Executive summary

The aim of this report is to enhance understanding of the managers at the P &G through an intelligence analysis of the main competitors, and the comparison between the company and its main competitor. Unilever International Corporation has been investigated in detail as the main rival to the company. Its current market analysis has been elaborated in detail, while its current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat are explained in detail in the SWOT analysis section. Opinions on the industry and the marketing strategies have been sought from various sources, in order to allow managers to understand what the ...

The state budget of Arizona combines both the one-year budget and the two-year budget. A fiscal year (FY) runs from 1st July to 30th June of the following year. In this work, I am going to consider the fiscal year 2008-2009 and the factors that influenced its budget. The factors can be said to be political, economical, social, and cultural. However, they can broadly be grouped as the economic and demographic factors, the fiscal structure, and the political decision making. In every fiscal year, both the two budgets (one-year budget and the two-year budget.) are adopted. However, in ...

Managed care programs can best be described as initiatives that are meant to provide better quality care for its enrollees, while cutting budget and making the dissemination of health care more efficient. The aim of managed care programs is to eliminate waste, and make the market more competitive by providing economic incentives that inspire health care professionals to offer more affordable alternatives for their services. In the state of Georgia, there are two primary managed care programs existing within Medicaid – Georgia Families and Georgia Better Health Care. In this essay, I will evaluate the criteria which allow them to ...

The depression of 1930’s was known as the great depression because its ripples were felt in all countries of the word. It originated from United States and its spread was attributed to the forged relationship between United States and European economies. The further spread to primary producing countries is attributed to the trade interrelation which had developed between these countries and the already developed countries. The primary producing nations included Latin America, Asia and Africa states. This depression strongly pressed countries like Britain and Germany because they had a lot of loans obtained from United States. Employment in these ...

Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the structure, behavior, and the performance of the economy in its entirety. The major goal of macroeconomics is to achieve price stability, economic growth, full employment and external balance. The United States economy has not been doing well in the recent past. Statistics from the Federal Reserve indicate that the economy grew by a mere 1.7% in the year 2009 and although everyone attributed the dismal growth to the infamous economic recession, things are not looking any better this year. Unemployment rates stand at a high of 9.6% and the consumer price index ...

Q. 1. Why did a former president of the liberal party in 2003 call the new party financing reforms as dumb as a bag of hammers?

To begin with, Stephen LeDrew, the president of the Liberal party, used the expression “dumb as a bag of hammers” to criticize and portray the new party financing reforms as being actually stupid, foolish, unthinkable, idiotic, imbecilic and absurd. These new party financing reforms were introduced by the Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, in the Common’s House on 11th February, 2003. The legislation was actually aimed at reducing the financial influence of money in the political ...