Marijuana Policy Project

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is part of the executive branch and presides over much of the health care within the country by implementing health policy. Through policy, some of the most significant advances in the 20th century have occurred. The health of the population has been greatly improved by the government’s management of immunizations, motor-vehicle safety, workplace safety, safe and healthy food handling, family planning, fluoridation of drinking water, control…

was generated by a number of factors, the key ones being the contractionary policies on the monetary and fiscal spheres, and the great financial crisis (G.F.C.). According to the Banco de la Republica (Colombian Central Bank), “The international crisis hit Colombian economy in a moment when the economic dynamism was already decreasing, after years of rapid growth. This slowdown is the result of a restrictive monetary policy, the impact of the rise in the prices of basic goods to both producers…

various political and socioeconomic thoughts that affect our daily lives (Eveline & Richard, 2013). The focus will be on Chapters 6 and 7 where the authors discuss about macroeconomic policy and the subsequent political debate. The two authors in chapter eleven and twelve discuss the form and nature of macroeconomic policy and some of the associate political thought (Eveline & Richard, 2013). This includes the appetizer section whereby they outline the main macroeconomic concepts. Accordingly,…

The End of Summer Complacency The end of summer has seemingly brought a fresh wave of sobriety to global financial markets. The catalyst was Fed Chair Yellen’s speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual conference on monetary policy in Jackson Hole. She stated that the case for a higher federal funds rate had recently strengthened. This hot topic of conversation subsequently shifted to one of how many hikes are potentially likely in 2016, as well as their timing. Chair Yellen’s…

Today, more than ever, there is an emphasis on high-quality education and its crucial role in the success of the individual and our society. This means that once they graduate, students are expected to have more than just a working knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic. On top of the material that has traditionally filled textbooks, populated lesson plans and crowded standardized tests, students today must be exposed and prepared to communicate and collaborate with individuals across a…

Fiscal policy is the federal government’s plan for funding and running federal programs. The goals of fiscal policy are to make it possible for government programs to run so that they can help struggling Americans. The tools that are used for fiscal policy are taxing US residents to fund government help programs and spending the money from taxes for the year in the aid programs. The federal government uses fiscal policy to help stabilize and promote growth in the economy by focusing parts of the…

expense of the taxpayers. The silver purchases did not do anything to aid the recovery of the American economy and in the late 1930s, President Roosevelt took the U.S. off the gold standard domestically (Friedman 1994). The last major outcome of this policy was that it rose the price of silver on the world market that China who was on a silver standard at the time could not pay for the remainder of its imports resulting in inflation. That inflation gave the communists an opening to attack the…

RBA and its relevance to banking and finance lawyers RBA is a statutory authority and it is Australia’s central banking. RBA’s key role is monetary policy. The RBA explains monetary policy as the process of setting the interest rate on overnight loans in the money market. This is known as the “cash rate”. RBA further explains that the cash rate influences other interest rates in the economy (including the money-market rates and the key rates of banks and financial intermediaries such as…

other developed country. Prescription drugs only represent 12 percent of total health care costs in the United States, but the rising prices of those drugs is an issue that keeps reoccurring not only for patients, but for prescribers, payers, and policy makers. There are people that believe that the rise in price of these drugs is appropriate, but if they keep on rising in price, the United States will start suffering not only financially but medically. Despite a lot of other aspects of the…