Michael Ferrai Economics 001 Income Distribution November 13‚ 2012 Over the last 30 years the participation of women in the work force has increased dramatically‚ unfortunately the pay gap between men and women has not decreased much at all. On top of that the pay gap between the classes of working America is increasing. While there have been some improvements there is still a lot of room for improvement. As of 2011 women’s median hourly wages were about 84 percent of males median hourly
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Question 14-4 Internal Revenue Code Section 351 permits shareholders of a corporation to defer recognition of a gain or loss on the transfer of assets to the corporation. The transfer of property may be made when a new corporation is formed or may reflect additional capital contributions to an existing corporation. Without Section 351‚ a sole proprietorship or a partnership would have difficulty adopting the corporate form of organization for legal and/or tax purposes because the transfer of appreciated
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UNITED STATES ECONOMIC FORECAST THROUGH 2012 The US economy is expected to grow at a really slow pace given the fiscal outlook and government cuts in spending. It is unlikely that there will be a government stimulus package in 2012 and the reason being a divisive politics in congress and also the piling up of the public debt. Fiscal policy in the past years helped to stimulate the economy especially after the inauguration of Barack Obama. Obama signed into law 787 billion dollar stimulus package
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Sales Forecast Memo The objective of this memo is to discuss the predictions of automobile sales in the US for the month of March 2012. The prediction is to take into account the historic data (provided) and current marketing environment. At first‚ two approaches of the analytical (quantitative) method were used – moving average and exponential smoothing. The objective of doing so was to get an idea of the prediction based on historic data only. Once that was done‚ the marketing environment
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My essay is on the piece "Five Day Forecast"‚ 1991‚ second edition‚ by Lorna Simpson. The piece was originally done by Simpson in 1988 using a Polaroid camera. This second edition was done in 1991 and she shot with a large format 4 x 5 camera with silver gelatin print on paper. The size is 622 x 2464 mm. This essay is an analysis and interpretation of Five Day Forecast using methodology(1) as follows: Description: pure description of the object without value‚ judgments‚ analysis‚ or interpretation
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Australian Dollar Analysis History: * The Australian Dollar is the currency of the Common Wealth of Australia‚ including Christmas Island‚ Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Islands as well as the independent Pacific Island States of Kiribati‚ Nauru and Tuvalu. Within Australia it is almost always abbreviated with the dollar sign ($)‚ with A$ sometimes used to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is subdivided into 100 cents. * Prior to 1983‚ Australia maintained
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Gold Prices Forecast As we all know that gold prices are fluctuating widely over the last few years‚ and a wide increase in the bullion rates has been recorded. According to economists and forecasters‚ there are different reasons of this widespread increase in gold prices. Most of them say that this is because of the relationship between crude oil and gold. And because of this correlation between prices of oil and gold‚ the gold prices are constantly changing but its not the only reason these
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movement of goods and services in an economy (BLS‚ 2007). It is a continual rise in price levels and‚ subsequently‚ purchasing power is falling. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures inflation as experienced by consumers in their day-to-day living expenses and is separated into two groups or populations of consumers: The CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) and the CPI for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The current status of inflation as measured by calculating the current CPI-U
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Is a college education worth the expense? People often ask the question is a college education worth the expense? College education is as we all know a more advanced level of education. An education that has become more and more demanded. It is frequently now mandatory for a variety of jobs. The jobs that recommend a college education are usually the jobs that have a higher pay. Rather then the jobs that are offered to people that only have a high school diploma. The higher paying jobs require the
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NATIONAL INCOME:- What is National Income? National Income is the sum that is total money value of all the goods and services produced in one accounting year. So when we talk about goods and services we are only talking about the final goods and services and not the semi processed‚ when we take the money value of all the goods and services produced within the domestic boundary on India only and to not other countries. CONCEPTS OF NATIONAL INCOME IN TERMS OF MARKET PRICE:- 1) Gross Domestic
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