Quincy Jones

At the end of the 1920s there was a huge imbalance between the rich and the poor: 0.1 percent of society earned the same total income as the bottom 42 percent.6 This imbalance, combined with production of more and more goods and rising personal debt, would soon doom our country. When giving his state of the union address in 1928, President Calvin Coolidge remarked that "America had never been met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time.”7 The next year,…

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Donald Trump What if one normal man was able to go from a small time businessman, to a large scale Entrepreneur and reality TV star, to finally becoming the President? This is a brief summary of the life of Donald Trump, the current President of the United States. Donald Trump has benefitted the United States by reducing regulations and allowing jobs to prosper, winning the Presidency while running against a politically elite figure, and succeeding as a businessman and helping to inform his…

analysts were expecting. Citigroup was up two percent while Key-Corp went up by four percent. The shares in technology also rose in the beginning of trading. The Standard and Poor’s 500 indexes rose seven points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,001.While Dow Jones average went up by thirty points. The NASDAQ average rose by twenty nine points. The prices of bonds fell. Also the ten year Treasury note rose to around two percent. The price of oil fell by one percent to around forty six dollars per barrel in…

General Electric Company is the world’s global digital industrial company that introduces software-defined machines to create solutions in the industry1. They have been a Fortune 500 company for 21 years2. GE is listed on the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) in the United States, and many others for non-U.S. exchanges3. Over the years they have broadened their technologies and services into eight different industrial operating segments and one financial services operating segment4. Industrial…

in the stock market were the perfect ingredients to create a deadly cocktail for the market. The markets rose faster than anyone could have imagined, “it had taken more than twenty years, from 1906 to 1927, for this key stock-market indicator [Dow Jones Industrial Average] to climb to 200 from 100. But in just over a year, the average jumped from 200 to 300.” (Blumenthal). The market continued to grow which led rich and poor investors alike to continue to pump massive sums of money into it,…

Case Study: The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Market Efficiency in the North American Security Markets As discussed in the previous sections, security markets around the world are using information technology in a verity of applications, and they are computerized to different degrees. Prior to Freund and Pagano (2000), there has been little done in terms of studying the impact of using information technology on the efficiency of exchange markets. Also, there were not enough empirical…

Introduction to 3M Corporation 3M Corporation is an industrial conglomerate that develops products which serve propose in a variety of industries. The original function of 3m was mining. Founded in 1902, 3M was originally known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. This firm’s main function was to harvest the mineral corundum, extremely hard aluminum oxide. This mineral is found in a crystalline form. Some precious stones such as rubies and sapphires are some types of corundum. 3M mined…

billion merger “General Electric 2000 Merger Sub, Inc.” with Honeywell (HON), a rival industrial conglomerate. GE is an American multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut. It is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896. In 2000, General Electric employed 223,000 people in over one hundred countries, counting 85,000 in Europe only , and reported net earnings of $13billion on revenue…

“Super Bowl predictor”—a theory popularized by the stock analyst Robert H. Stovall, after sportswriter Leonard Koppett first discovered that the subdivisions in which the Super Bowl winners belonged to, correlated with the rise or fall of the “Dow Jones Industrial Average” the concurrent year (Fortune). Similarly, the article by The Telegraph assesses the phenomenon…