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    years created a drug culture. The film inside jobs talked about how many people were using cocaine and hired hookers since the economy was doing well, but then it crashed. In 1987 the stock market plunged. Financial sectors/industries caused the crisis. The Reagan Industries made risky decisions, causing people to lose their life savings. No one was doing their job correctly. In 1998, the New York Stock exchange and the city struck a nine-hundred…

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    Latin America Case Study

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    by Canadian mining projects will validate my argument that these projects are exploitive rather than development oriented. The following paragraph will provide a brief history of Canada’s involvement with mining in Latin America. A substantial debt crisis in the 1980s caused great economic instability in Latin America when debts owed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) exceeded what countries could repay (Gordon and Webber 2008:66). The IMF and WB used the dire…

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    The 2007-2008 Recession experienced by the United States and later experienced by the rest of the world was caused by a handful of people. It was an inside job caused by individuals exploiting the deregulated environment. The greedy pursuit for profit of a few individuals left millions in financial despair. The sad reality is that this recession could have been avoided. Massive deregulation allowed for companies to exploit the economic system. Deregulation was in the works for decades. As…

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    go through a legal process on their own, which would cause a major logistical nightmare for the bank (Morran, 2016). So rather than sit back and wait, the plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit are calling Wells Fargo’s bluff, arguing that since the CAA’s are not meant to cover illegal bank transactions, then the bank should have no ability to shield itself from this lawsuit. A recent court filing has even gone to the point of identifying that the CAA does not cover illegal actions and that it…

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    George Soros Refugees

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    6, 2016. To stem the refugee and migrant crisis, governments and the private sector alike need to be at the forefront of developing a sustainable social and physical support infrastructure. Soros hopes to expand his initiative to cover refugees and immigrants in Europe and other parts of the world. The decision by Soros to inject $500 million…

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    Iran's post-upset difficulties have incorporated the burden of monetary assents and suspension of strategic relations with Iran by the United States because of the prisoner emergency, political help to Iraq and different demonstrations of psychological warfare that the U.S. government and some others have blamed Iran for supporting. Displacement has lost Iran a vast number of business people, experts, professionals, and gifted craftspeople and their capital. For this and several reasons Iran's…

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    Out of the many events that happen in the history of the United States Of America, these are my top 5 important events in history. These changed the U.S and we will never forget. 5. The Great Depression The Great Depression was an economic downfall in America and many other parts of the world. This was a dark time for America as well as the other countries that this affected. It started in 1929 and lasted for about 10 years. This depression did not end until we entered the war causing a need…

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    Skeletal Outline • Jefferson County, Alabama o Two major reasons for Jefferson County’s $4 billion debt (largest before Detroit’s case) is due to sewer project and corrupt financial dealing. o Revenue are raised from residents who uses the service. o JPMorgan Chase was able to influence Jefferson County to a bond deal that had complicated terms and the ability to interest-rate swap. o With no increase in revenue as the market interest rate went up due to the swapping interest rate deal, so…

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    Transgender Bathroom Law

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    The Republican Party is once again trying to push for a law, making transgenders use the bathroom of their birth gender. Previous laws that have tried to discriminate against transgenders using bathrooms of their birth gender have backfired. Transgender laws are unnecessary and hurtful for Texas because it’s impossible to enforce, will hurt the Texas economy, and does nothing to counteract public safety concerns in bathrooms. One of the biggest problems with the transgender bathroom law once it…

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    1. How can you compare "tulip mania" from 17th century Holland to the dot.com debacle of the 20th century from a financial point of view? Tulip mania occurred similarly as did the dot.com debacle because both grow rapidly and then crashed the market. Mr. Earl Thompson noted he believed the market responded to changing financial regulation especially with the government’s future contracts. The problem arouse was investors who were to buy tulips in the future were no longer required to purchase…

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