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for people to be able to reconnect with cultures different from there’s. Thomas Loren Friedman, three time Pulitzer Prize winner, and current writer for the New York Times foreign affairs column since 1995, is a famous journalist who took a closer look into Globalization. Covering the topic in his prologue “Globalization: The Super- Story,” from his book Longitudes and Attitudes, Thomas Friedman uses…

economists he influenced, Milton Friedman arose to fame with his own economic theories partially based off of Friedrich Hayek’s theories. Although Friedman was influenced by Hayek, both economists have since diverged on many different economic topics, analyzing different types of data and creating their own theories. Both economists have played an important role in politics, the economy during different hardships in this country’s history, and creating many different…

significance to be attributed to money related elements. It was effortlessly watched that the cash supply, yield, and costs all fell abruptly in the constriction and rose quickly in the recuperation; the trouble lay in setting up the causal connections among these variables. In their excellent investigation of U.S. financial history, Friedman and Schwartz (1963) introduced a monetarist elucidation of these…

The Great Depression was a period of time between 1929 and the late 30’s in which unemployment rates skyrocketed and America’s economy was hanging on by a thread due to multiple triggers one of which was the stock market crash. The two long-term causes of the Depression were the decline in industry growth and the overproduction of crops. Industry decline was one of the main factors that contributed to the Depression because former consumers no longer had the means to pay for goods or services…

Chris Martenson explained, during the Accelerated Crash Course, how the economy and financial status of our country will continue to rapidly decline if we do not adress it now. Martenson also suggested that everyone should always be prepared for times like these. He expounded on the Three E’s which are important topics we should focus on to save the economy from deteriorating. The Three E’s include the economy, energy, and environment and all three criteria should be thought of in the same sense…

Reading Two: Why the Fed Is Watching China Closely Quantitative Easing (QE) is an unusual form of monetary policy where a Central Bank –in this case, the Federal Reserve – electronically creates new money, increasing money supply to enable purchasing of financial assets, such as government bonds, government securities and other securities. (“What is quantitative easing?”, 2015) When short-term interest rates are near or approaching zero, this process is used to increase the private sectors’…

Effects of Prayer The power of prayer is a common belief that many Americans possess, especially when they are Roman Catholics. So, it might not be a surprise if someone says that they believe in the power of prayer. When that person is a Roman Catholic Priest, it is even less of a surprise. Father John Murray not only believes in the power of prayer but says he can prove that prayer can heal. In the year 2010, Father John Murray had a bone chip from his neck and it sliced down into his…

Friedman vs. Keynes Everybody knows that economics is simply defined as the study and understanding of the economy, including the system of government, the people, and anything else that deals with money and all financial matters. When people discuss economics, some of them prefer to split it into two separate branches which are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics is the branch that reviews the market’s act specifically for individuals hoping to understand how they make decision…

social networking, Gmail, blogger getting a job in this company; people might think you need a higher lever degree or good GPA. Well after reading this article it pointed out that a high GPA or scores are worthless as a criteria hiring. Thomas L. Friedman, interviewed Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google he does the hiring process. In interview he mentioned that Google has five hiring attributes and they are very strike with those rules. This article was…

Planning theory developed from a range of disciplines. It borrows ideas from economics, sociology, political science, psychology and geography. From these disciplines, planning has adopted ideas which are applied to the planning process to arrive at normative prescriptions of how planning is to be done. According to Alexander, planning practice needs a theory of what planning is or should be, and theory provides scientific explanation and description of facts. Planning used to be viewed as an…