Deregulation

The shadow banking system can be defined as a network of institutions that provides financial services that consist of non-depository banks. In a broad term, it can be utilized for non-bank financial intermediaries who provide services same as traditional commercial banks, but are affected in an activity outside the regular banking system. Shadow banking is commonly attributed to the economist McCulley (2007) who used the term shadow banking during his address at the annual financial…

According to Abramovitz (2014), the post-World War II welfare state was the “golden age of capitalism” (p.4). During this period actual income and living standard rose for everyone, the inequality gap between poor and rich become narrower, the middle-class dream of a good job and a good home became more of a reality, more employment and equal opportunity were created, better wage and good benefits were introduced for the workers and sexual equality and civil rights movements were steady. “The…

The fourth historical period is the Modern, between 1750 to 1980, when the Pacific islands were being influenced by Europe’s political, economic, and cultural exchange. During this time, Europeans take up the role among themselves to be the world’s guardians of civilization and morality. However, their views and practices only promoted racism and inequality. “In spite of their persistent claims to universal leadership, however they remained strangely oblivious to their racist practices and the…

immunoblot analysis. Our results showed that GD has little effect on forebrain NPCs but causes significant depletion of midbrain and hindbrain NPCs, suggesting that the neurodevelopmental abnormalities in GD neuronal progenitors are likely due to deregulation of the Wnt pathway. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that FoxG1 and TBR1 levels were approximately equal in control and GD NPCs, while HoxB4…

The media’s effect of the Affordable Care Act has caused quite a stir in the government and the United States. The Affordable Care Act, referred to as “ObamaCare”, is a federal healthcare law aimed to increase the number of people covered under health insurance. Even from the beginning of the Affordable Care Act, the media geared towards Republican’s would publish articles and news story’s speaking of President Obama’s overhaul of this bill forcing it to be signed by Congress. This wasn’t the…

Summary Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2 In chapter 2 Freedman describes the time between the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and 9/11 was a time of great technical advancements in America. During this time Freedman says Americans became confident/unconcerned and gained a sense of entitlement that changed the traditional American principles, they increasingly got what they wanted when they wanted. According to Freedman after 9/11 Americans lost sight of American principles and priorities were flipped…

a “researcher of education at New York University” (prologue), and once served “in the U.S. department of education from 1991 to 1993” (prologue). Her personal experience in the field of education has shown that “privatization inevitably means deregulation, greater segregation, and less equality” (361). Some major key points that challenge the achievement gap consist of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and socio-economics. Progress has been made towards closing the gap, but it still remains.…

Donald Trump. [That horse has left the barn, figuratively speaking] The part I felt disappointed with the Democratic Party is, that Hillary Clinton and the DNC were getting to be bedfellows with free trade, privatization, the money changers and deregulation. In other words, they lost their focus on really helping the little guy, and jumping to the defense of capitalist that prey on that little guy. The Democratic party became the party of soft Republican plagiarism. the Democratic Party used to…

Driven by beliefs that stricter criminal laws, increased chances of conviction and more punitive sanctions will deter criminal behavior, governments in the developed world have engaged in systematically tightening up criminal justice systems. The article makes thee basic arguments: first, that the brand of state regulation known as corporate crime has basically disappeared; second, that it has been argued into obsolescence through neoliberal knowledge claims advanced thorough specific discourses…

Here is a comparative look at the following four ideologies: populist, libertarian, conservative, and liberal. Starting with a brief overview of the varying political views toward economic and social regulations in each of the four groups. First the populist believes in both strong economic and social regulations, as opposed to the libertarian who believes in both weak economic and social regulation. Next the conservative believes in weak economic regulations and strong social regulations, while…