Public policy

fiscal policy was put into place to help stimulate the economy in the event or possibility of a recession. The fiscal policy helps narrow or close the gap by stimulating the economy and increasing jobs. The Expansionary monetary policies focus more on boosting the money flowing throughout the economy with the right amount if interest decrease. The reasoning for the monetary policies is to help fix the business-cycle contraction and focus on unemployment. Both fiscal and monetary policies help…

Both Iceland and Japan’s language policies are resistant to change – both countries are seen as homogenous both internally and externally, which especially in Japan has resulted in language planning and policy being slow to respond to changes (Gottlieb 2008; Hilmarsson-Dunn 2006). In Iceland, long traditions in lexical purism have affected the official language policies, but in recent years, the focus has shifted more towards ensuring Icelandic’s status at the national language in the country…

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…

they participate in the discussions about the economy and contribute the options on which policy should be used (Federal Reserve, 2014). The committee meets eight times a year, unless an emergency meeting is held to discuss economic and financial development (Federal Reserve, 2014). The committee issues a policy statement that summarizes each meeting in accordance to the economic position and the policy decision (Federal Reserve, 2014). The chairman speaks to the press four times a year on…

the reserve ratio is set at 10%, banks must reserve 10% of all deposits. The remaining 90% is available for loans. If the reserve ratio is indeed 10% in the previous scenario, 90% of the Fed’s check is added to the supply of money available to the public. This is just one of the tools available to the Fed to increase the supply of money in the economy. The Fed cannot take this ability lightly. “The Fed has unlimited ability to create money. It can write checks against itself to purchase…

France’s Resistance to the Great Depression Unlike other leading industrial economic during 1920s, France resisted the onset of the Great Depression until 1931. By the beginning of 1927, France had avoided the road to total monetary disaster and national bankruptcy that other Continental countries were experiencing. Into 1930, France remained immune to the effect of the Great Depression; when most of the industrial world was bogging down, most of the parts of French industry was still…

This policy is characterized by increased government spending or lowering taxes in order to increase money supply in the economy. During recession, aggregate demand is lower than in full employment, which results to recessionary gap. In order to close this gap…

Ⅱ “Public welfare” and “political economy” in Dazai Shundai In the event that any contradiction arise among “interests” and the activity of giving priority to “interests” even if lowering the gain of “the world and the nation” in the long term is not prohibited, or in the case that “interests” can be temporarily restricted to increase the gain of society, would it be “beneficial” to establish institutions based on the urgency of current affairs in light of “public welfare”? It was Dazai Shundai…

the privacy of students is a primary concern. Some sites have privacy policies that give them the right to sell or share information posted on the website, which could violate a student’s right to intellectual property (Rodrgiuez). Oftentimes if the use of a website account is free of charge, the security of personal information is probably minimal. Although settings can be tuned so that only specific people of the general public have access to information, the website provider itself may…

such as high officials of the Bank of Canada have attributed the high interest rates to Canadians’ spending habits. To validate this assertion, it is important to understand the economic model called the market for loanable funds, the government policies that can encourage the increase of the economy’s investment and saving, and finally…