Economics

How the Bailout Bill failed the American People - #2

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My first post on the bailout bill focuses mainly on how Congress is flawed. How the leaders in the Congress can buy votes to pass legislation using American taxpayer money which ultimately may lead to funding obscure "projects". This post is going to focus more on the economics of the issue.  Read More »

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Your Diet Can Determine Your Economics

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Did you ever think that economics was a lot like your diet?  Read More »

What it Means to Graduate in '09

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Graduation is coming up, and I could not be happier! But what does it really mean to graduate in 2009?  Read More »

Golden Parachutes and Great Depressions

You know that time in you're life, when everything that could be going bad is going bad, and you stop yourself and wonder how this could have happened?

America is having one of those moments right now.

And as if that weren't bad enough, us poor self-respecting citizens will have to pay for it?  Read More »

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Where's our Robin Hood?

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been noticing that the gas prices have been going down. I was very excited to see that the gas price went from 3.77 to 3.23. Every cent is important to me as a poor college student. However, just the other day I came across an article on msnbc news about our country’s debt.  Read More »

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Economic DownFall

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed yesterday at just above 8,500. If it drops another 1,500 points then it will have dropped 50% From October 9th, 2007(which by the way, is the highest it had ever reached at 14,164). People say this is a sign of Economic collapse or at least a recession.  Read More »

Mellonomics and America's Youth

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As a senior in high school looking forward to entering college next year, I look at the stock market and tuition prices with woe. With today's economy going down the bucket, I ask myself "Why?" Well, I believe there are several factors that contribute to this.  Read More »

Why To Vote For McCain (Not Why You Shouldn’t Vote For Obama)

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As the days draw closer and closer to November 4th, the day we elect a new president, Americans must look at each candidate and choose which one they want to support.
Both Obama and McCain have idea’s that they feel will better the country, but those ideas, for the most part, are vastly different.  Read More »

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