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Most countries around the world wanted to regulate transactions between countries within the world trade market around the mid to late-1800’s. For this reason, the gold standard was implemented. The gold standard specified that the government would exchange any amount of paper money for its worth in gold. This meant transactions no longer had to be done with heavy gold bars or coins, and could be easily handled with paper transactions. Countries had to separately elect to follow the rules of…

Why America Should Trash the U.S. Penny America lost $55 million dollars producing pennies in 2014 alone. Pennies waste our taxpayers and governments’ money. Also, they’re bad for the environment around us. Not only that, but they’re also quite impractical. Therefore, America should get rid of the penny. Pennies waste both American government and taxpayers money. Conforming to the 2014 Annual Report from the U.S. Mint, it currently costs 1.7 cents to make a single penny. That’s 70% more than…

congress to contract the economy, they have to control the supply of the money within the country that the interest rates and other methods, which have profound influence on the business cycle. Through money contraction, they create a recession by dollars that would cover the financial transaction between customers and businesses which drives up unemployment. What does the Federal Reserve do to stimulate the economy? The Federal Reserve stimulates the economy through the ensuring that maximum…

Treasuries and yield dollar denominated foreign government bonds. The end result is a DCF value denominated in U.S. dollars. * 2. The second approach is to discount foreign cash flows using a foreign WACC, and then translate the foreign DCF into a dollar DCF using the spot exchange rate. However, a major drawback to this method is that betas are not estimated for many stocks in emerging…

Dollarization is the replacement of a countries domestic currency with that of a foreign currency. Dollarization has occurred in several countries including, but not limited to, Panama, El Salvador, and Ecuador. For countries with volatile currencies, dollarization offers them the ability to stabilize their economy. While dollarization has its pros, it is not without its cons, and for Ecuador, this is no exception. In my initial discussion, I believed that dollarization was a positive move for…

The Forecasting for the June 15th financial instruments of the S&P 500, 10 year T-Notes (yield), the gold price, the oil (WTI), the unemployment rate, and the Euro. My reasoning for these instruments was a mix between guessing and little economic reasoning. Out of the 6 financial instruments I was closest to 10 year T-Notes (yield), and the oil (WTI). While the other four instruments I was either in the right direction or the market went in the opposite of what I predicted. On May 18th the S&P…

2.1 Introduction In this chapter, previous literature concerns with the determinants of foreign currency hedging will be discussed and assessed. Theories for the determinants of foreign currency hedging can be evaluated from two aspects: the level of foreign exchange exposure and how firm’s value will be affected; what kinds of characteristics for the firm influence its decisions for hedging. I will discuss the determinants of foreign currency hedging from this two points of view in the…

“In God We Trust” is the official motto of The Unites States. It was adopted in 1956 as an alternative to the US unofficial motto “E Pluribus Unum” which is the Latin for “Out of many, one”. The motto was later adopted by the US coins and paper money. Some people argue that the motto violates the first amendment of the Unites States constitution and it is oppressive to atheists and people of different religions. However, the motto is part of America history, in fact, most of the American…

products followed distantly at 8% and 1% respectively. The survey results indicated that the plastic resin trade in Malaysia takes place in four key currencies. 76 respondents, which comprised 84.4% of all the respondents, indicated the United States Dollar (USD) as the current transaction currency with plastic resin suppliers. 12.2% of the respondents identified the local currency, Malaysia Ringgit (RM) as the current transaction currency among plastic resin suppliers. Two respondents…

How would we lynch or get rid of Jesus Christ in today’s world? We would get rid of stuff related to him. People use money everyday. Money plays a large role in almost every American’s life. Everyone thinks that people have to have it to live. American paper money contains the religious phrase “In God We Trust”. We could attempt to remove religious phrases from American money by getting rid of Christ. These phrases should not be removed from our money. Although some religious phrases offend some…