Zimbabwe: A worthless currency | The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/11751346/print Zimbabwe A worthless currency The local dollar is fast shrivelling away Jul 17th 2008 | JOHANNESBURG | from the print edition WITH prices doubling every few days‚ Zimbabweans now spend huge amounts of time and energy preventing their meagre cash resources from completely evaporating. Trying to catch up with galloping hyperinflation‚ now officially running at 2.2m per cent a year and at least
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1. Barker Corp. has a beta of 1.10‚ the real risk-free rate is 2.00%‚ investors expect a 3.00% future inflation rate‚ and the market risk premium is 4.70%. What is Barker’s required rate of return? Answer D | | | |2010 |21.00% | |2009 |-12.50% | |2008
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HL Chapter seven might as well have turned The Grapes of Wrath into how to force misfortunate people to buy cars. The author’s tone turns invective during this character’s lines‚ and this must of been how back in the Great Depression people cursed each other. The tone also creates hate toward the car salesmen‚ and maybe this is where the stereotype of sales people being thieves. Tenant farmers are placed as the prey instead of the predators which is the precedent of what this books is. Steinbeck
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it still gives copyright rights to the owner. 5. They offered a giant amount of money to anyone who could find gold in their mine. 6. It was important because India was always the one that bought the items after they have already been used. 7. They benefitted because when people were sharing through their websites‚ they also received information as well. 8. Offshoring is when a company sells a product in one country but their factory is in a different country. Apple’s factories are in
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Investigative journalism 1. The use of detective-like reporting to unearth scandals‚ scams‚ and schemes‚ putting reporters in adversarial relationships with political leaders 6. Print media 1. Newspapers and magazines as compared with broadcast media 7. Broadcast media 1. TV and radio‚ as compared with print media 8. Chains 1. By 1994‚ more than 80 percent of Americas daily papers were controlled by national and regional chains 9. Narrowcasting 1. Media programming on cable TV or the Internet
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of a price of goods or products. This term is specially used as revaluation of a currency‚ where it means a rise of currency to the relation with a foreign currency in a fixed exchange rate. In floating exchange rate correct term would be appreciation. Altering the face value of a currency without changing its foreign exchange rate is a redenomination‚ not a revaluation. In general terms‚ revaluation of a currency is a calculated adjustment to a country’s official exchange rate relative to a chosen
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Week Seven Notes: The Stepsirhines: Lemurs and Lorises Prosimians(Same thing as Stepsirhines): Lemurs‚ Lorises‚ Tarsiers: Most primitive of the primates Exhibit the fewest derived traits (as a group) of all primates Ancestral Characteristics (ie. Inherited from mammals) • Rely more on olfaction • Moist noise and long snout • Eyes slightly more lateral Classification of Prosimians: Lemurs‚ Lorises‚ and Tarsiers Order- primates Suborder: Strepsirhines (used to be Prosimians) • Means “wet-nosed”
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One-world Currency With the development of international communication‚ the world becomes smaller. Many areas such as foods and culture from different part of the world become integrate. Some parts of the world connect closer than ever before range from law to currency‚ like the European Unions. Some people come up with such an idea that is what if we use the same currency all over the world? There is no doubt that using one-world currency will bring lots of benefits to international
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Vietnam’s decision to devalue its currency by 5 per cent last week to protect itself from undervaluation of the Chinese renminbi‚ and the worried response from Thailand and other Asian countries‚ suggests the move towards global trade conflict may already be unstoppable. As one group of countries seeks to gain or maintain trade advantage by manipulating their currencies‚ the historical precedent suggests that countries that are not able to devalue will respond with trade protection‚ especially tariffs
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Chapter 9 #1 What are the three basic functions of money? Money is a medium of exchange that is usuable for buying and selling goods and services‚ as a unit of account (monetary units=dollars)‚ and a store of value that allows people to transfer purchasing power from the present to the future. Describe how rapid inflation can undermine money’s ability to perform each of the three functions. Rapid inflation greatly reduces the use of money so money loses its value. Since people only accept money
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