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are in a currency crisis or heading into a currency crisis. The article mentions that Brazil’s currency hit a 12-year low recently, and currencies in Southeast Asia are at levels experienced in the last financial crisis in the late 1990’s. The exchange rates in Mexico and South Africa are at the lowest levels ever compared to the dollar (CNN Money, 2015). According to the article, a large-scale currency crisis could be a significant impact to the global economy, including the United States.…

1. If I had to choose between using my phone or having a face-to-face conversation, I would chose face-to-face. I prefer emotions and real laughter. Phones to me are so fake. It’s not a real person behind those written words. You say so much more and can hold out a conversation better when you are face- to-face. It is easier to relate and understand the person. There is nothing more that I hate then missed communication over text messaging. Words can’t express and show action like someone’s tone…

the entire business. The best way to ensure that the communication is advantageous is to set up basic framework for all communication. There has to be standards set in place that all parties within the communication can expect to happen on every exchange. Five of the most important parts of that communication are honesty, fairness, opportunity, timeliness, and follow-through. Associations that exercise this framework have the opportunity to increase the usefulness of all communication within…

Twitter: Twitter is an online platform which connects people instantly and is into social media industry. It is a way through which people can share their views and opinions. They enable in creating, distributing and discovering the contents which can reach the entire world. They have some unique features like limitation in the number of characters entered which is 140 (U.S. SEC, 2013, p. 126). This made them to become more viral as short and effective messages were circulated by people. Twitter…

Currently, you are losing your money, if you are just saving your money in your bank account or safe. In this year, you lost 1.6% of your money. It is lower than the United States annual average, 3.22% (S), but it is still 1.6%. The price of goods keeps increasing and we need more money to buy the same goods. However, banks do not pay us enough interest. In fact, inflation rate in this year, 2016 is 1.6% according to Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (S), while we have 0.01% of interest rate of…

Money controls everything. The state of all economies around the world depends whether or not the country makes money from exports. Without money, these economies cannot function at their full potential. The world economy depends on whether or not the independent economies of countries thrive. The world economy is shrinking because of china’s economic slowdown and the overpricing of oil. The world economy is comprised of individual economies and their international trading of goods and…

There are many forms and its consumption is increasing. Cultural products are continuously standardised into commodities that offer false needs and satisfaction through pseudo-individualisation. Entertainment has expanded yet still lacks depth, and exchange value dominates. Individuals seek escape in what the culture industry offers, and succumb to the socio-psychological effects of escapism, one-dimensional self, and continue to react rather than reflect. The culture industry argument continues…

How Technology Makes the World Smaller The idea that the world is becoming flatter all the time is a very interesting idea. Saying the world is becoming flatter or talking about globalization, means that people all over the world are becoming more connected. There are many things that have and are contributing to the making of a flatter world such as advances in transportation and overall greater wealth. However, technology is the driving force behind a flatter world. The forces that lead to a…

also thinking that the act was bad for US companies and that maybe these problems should have been dealt with in a different manner as there was a decrease in the number of companies that registered in the US Stock Exchange and there were more companies registered in the UK stock exchange in 2008. (Wikipedia, 2014). The amount cost of SOX definitely discourages small firms and foreign firms from entering the US stock…

what Marx identifies as the real subsumption of labor under capital.[2] This term refers to the tendency of capitalism to not only maximize its control over the traditional spaces of labor and exchange, but also its need to valorize those moments that used to be outside the expectations of commercial exchange. In the frame of the sharing economy, one is not sufficiently “hustling” if there is a product or waking that cannot be transitioned into a valorized product – your car is wasting money…