Thinking big is all the rage these days with U.S. money managers. Many are hiring high-profile economists to help them better navigate global economic and geopolitical events. Hedge funds and other institutional investors are tapping so-called macro thinkers like economists Martin Feldstein‚ Henry Kaufman and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at a time when fundamental analysis is often being overwhelmed by big-picture political and governmental risks. This year alone‚ hedge fund
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than HDI because GDP focus on the wealth in total‚ but HDI focus on people. Even in HDI‚ there is a component of income‚ but income per capital not total income of the whole country as GDP. HDI place focus on people‚ each citizen in the country with easy access to good education‚ health and income will maintain the strength of the country. It stay tuned with the definition of societal well-being in the 21st‚ meaning a developed society is where citizens are treated well. If we base on GDP‚ the US ranked
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Macro environments relates to the larger forces that have an impact on society as a whole and not just on one or a few organizations. A single organization cannot usually have a significant impact on these forces and therefore can only adapt its marketing mix to account for the opportunities and threats that arise. One of the evidence about this is the article ’Optus hit with $5 million fine’ which was published in The Age of the July 8‚ 2011‚ it identify and explain the impacts and affects this
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St Atanagio is a remote island in the Atlantic. The inhabitants grow corn and breed poultry. The accompanying table shows the maximum annual output combinations of corn and poultry that can be produced. Obviously‚ given their limited resources and available technology‚ as they use more of their resources for corn production‚ there are fewer resources available for breeding poultry. Maximum annual output options Quantity of Corn (pounds) Quantity of Poultry (pounds) 1 1200 0 2 1000 300
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1. PRINCIPES OF ECONOMICS-MANKIEW CHAPTER 1- QUESTION FOR REVIEW (18) No 3. What is inflation and what causes it? = Inflation is an increase in the overall level of prices in the economy. Inflation happen because culprit is growth in the quantity o money when a government creates larges quantities of the nation’s money‚ the value of the money. No 5. Explain the two main causes of market failure and give an example of each! = Externality‚ is the impact of one person’s action on the well being
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Experiment 6: Microbial Cultivation Objectives: To successfully cultivate microorganisms from different sources to medium. Materials: Broth‚ Agar‚ Sterilized cotton swab‚ Procedure: 1) Get your broth with cotton swab inside containing your bacteria. 2) Remove the cotton and flame sterilize the mouth of the testtube. 3) Get your cotton swab inside‚ flame sterilize again the mouth of the testtube then plug it with cotton. 4) Grab the inverted plated media and flame sterilize the
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Econ 2200 Midterm #1 fall 2011 Section I Answer Four of the following six questions. Each question is worth 5 points. a. What is the difference between the Income Effect and a Change in Income? b. True or False: The slope of the budget line represents the rate at which the consumer is willing to trade one good for another at any given bundle. Explain. c. An Engel curve can be both positively and negatively sloped‚ why does this happen? d. What do we mean by the term “Consumer Surplus”? e
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Opportunity cost of an activity (or goods) is equal to the best next alternative foregone. Although opportunity cost can be hard to quantify‚ the effect of opportunity cost is universal and very real on the individual level. In fact‚ this principle applies to all decisions‚ not just economic ones. Since the work of the Austrian economist Friedrich von Wieser‚ opportunity cost has been seen as the foundation of the marginal theory of value[citation needed]. Opportunity cost is one way to measure
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QUESTION 1 a. A downward-sloping demand curve shows in both graphs when the quantity at each price is doubled what it was. However‚ the curve in demand for pharmaceutical drugs is drawn with a relatively steep slope as inelastic products. Equilibrium price down-sloping along the demand curve while quantity in both market increased to some extent. b. In inelastic demand of pharmaceutical drugs‚ the percentage change in price is greater than the percentage change in quantity demanded. While in elastic
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01DEFINE AND EXPLAIN A RANGE OF CORE ECO TERMS AND CONEPTS INCLUDING ECONOMIC SURPLUS OPP COST AND SUNK COST DEFINE AND EXPLAIN A RANGE OF CORE ECO TERMS AND CONEPTS INCLUDING ECONOMIC SURPLUS OPP COST AND SUNK COST CHAPTER !: THINKING LIKE AN ECONOMIST Scarcity principal: due to limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants‚ trade offs occur in terms of having more of one good and less of another Economic decision: any decision when securing something of value means going without something
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