Mutual assured destruction

Many people are afraid off bees and because of that not many people care about saving them and their habitats even though they are very essential to humans. In the article Helping the bee and its habitat before the food chain gets stung Juliet Elperin talks about how bees are very important to the environment, but how they’re in danger. She shows how th bees are in danger and the causes of them being in danger eve though they’re very important to humans, but through the help of humans how them…

Communities of people and ecosystems in nature both work hand in hand in order to achieve one goal -- to ensure that all of their components function and work smoothly. When one thinks about their community, they have to take into consideration all of its parts that help in making it run smoothly. These components of a community can include things like those who produce, consume, and decompose or break down. Consequently if one of those key components becomes damaged or missing, it can have…

The available technology points toward the use of lead/acid batteries to supply the power for ZEVs. The negative consequences associated with lead/acid batteries are numerous. For example, lead/acid batteries contain a large amount of lead. When the life of the battery is lost, the disposal of the lead within the battery must be dealt with appropriately. An analysis by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon found that the mass production of electric cars using lead/acid battery packs would exponentially…

Is it important to maintain the colonies of prairie dogs in Colorado? What exactly makes prairie dogs so important? Who supports them and fights for them, and what is killing them? Prairie dogs, like many other livings on Earth, are valuable to our ecosystem. They are responsible for keeping the cycle of life going and helping to maintain a healthy structure in the wild, both as predator and prey. There are wildlife activists who support prairie dogs and who support non-lethal methods of…

Case Study: Macphie’s Push to Innovate Introduction There are many decisions organizations make to drive a product from concept to customer. Stakeholders both internal and external can create a ripple that results in the need for innovation. The effect is felt when external stakeholders intentionally or unintentionally interrupt the process. Many times the company has no control over these influences. In this case, Macphie could no longer compete with their competition due to their new pricing…

bought or sold with little effect on the price of the securities. Furthermore, short term investments usually provide a firm with an increase in return on investments (ROI). Additionally, some short term securities include treasury bonds, stocks, mutual funds, money market funds or even certificates of deposits, in which a company may use to earn quick cash. Some firms have a short term investment account, if their financial position is strong; whereas the company makes investments to gain a…

Adding the risk-free government securities would result in a lower beta for the new portfolio. The new portfolio beta will be a weighted average of the individual security betas in the portfolio; the presence of the risk-free securities would lower that weighted average. q. The comment is not correct. Although the respective standard deviations and expected returns for the two securities under consideration are equal, the covariances between each security and the original portfolio…

Quick Ratio measures the ability of a company to fulfill its current liabilities with its most liquid assets. Overall, a rising quick ratio indicates that the company has enough cash to pay back its current liabilities. From the calculation, a decrease of Sleep Country’s quick ratios is prevalent between the 2014 to 2015 fiscal years. In 2014, the ratio reveals that Sleep Country had approximately $1.06 in quick assets for every $1 in current liabilities. However, in 2015 the quick ratio…

Introduction I chose the national bank JP Morgan Chase. The reason I chose this global company is because I wanted to research a topic that was a part of my major. I want to major in finance and possibly accounting then one day go into banking so I saw it fitting that I chose this company. “JPMorgan Chase & Co. is one of the oldest, largest and best-known financial institutions in the world.” (JP Morgan Chase 2016). This company goes all the way back to 1799. JP Morgan Chase operates in over…

What is a Mutual Fund and Why Should I Care? It is unfortunate that there is not more time spent in school teaching young adults and teenagers the in’s and out’s of the financial industry. For many, terms such as “mutual funds”, “bonds”, “401k’s”, and “annuities” are scary and unfamiliar. Young adults assume that only people with a lot of money, who have the resources to hire financial advisors, need to know what these words mean or, what they can do for them. This is a mistake. Every working…