The American Crisis

In the wake of the financial crisis, which occurred in 2008, financial reforms focused more strictly on the financial industry such as the markets, and financial institutions. A survey titled “ The Street, The Bull, and the Crisis: conducted by Ann Tenbrunsel, and Jordan Thomas, found that 47 percent of respondents thought it was “likely their competitors have engaged in unethical…

people are dying from waterborne illness and dehydration, arguments are all but futile. The simple answer comes like a hit between the eyes of ignorance. Only Bottled water can be counted on to sustain the life of our dying planet. Most American homes are supplied with water…

study by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), a combination of record high temperatures and sparse rainfall during California’s current drought have produced the worst drought conditions in 1,200 years. A key component to this drought, is the substantial water consumption in the Coachella Valley, a valley located in Southern California. Residents all throughout California, and even outside of the state, are putting partial blame onto the valley for facilitating in this severe water crisis.…

five thousand Indians lived to the east of the Mississippi, mostly away from American society in the woods of the area. However, there were still some Indians who had embraced the new society the Europeans had brought with them. Called the Five Civilized Tribes, the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles all tried to assimilate themselves into American society and were successful for the most part. Americans had long admired the Indians and felt that they could be equals to the…

How the Lack of Sustainability Impacts our world For decades the world has been facing an ever increasing crisis in which the sustainability of our planet is not strong enough to support the expanding population. As our population grows, the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere increases dramatically, causing a change in our climate that threatens the balance of nature. This essay will touch on just a few of the adverse impacts that a lack of sustainability in our world has had on…

Many times throughout world history, economic downturns called recessions or depressions have devastated both individual lives and countries’ economies. On a microscale, many people lose their jobs, businesses, and in extreme cases, their homes. On a macro level, unemployment rises, and gross domestic product (the way economists measure the success of an economy) sinks to new lows. Recessions and depressions are the cause of the ruination of many. Although these economic crises are seen as…

Raghuram Rajan’s book “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy” provides an in-depth view of the forces that brought about the worst financial and economic crisis in at least half a century and look at what can be done to prevent the next one. Rajan argues that the reasons for the crisis are more complicated than just blaming one single stakeholder (e.g., financial professionals, regulators, government officials), rather, there are serious flaws in the economy. Each…

behavior can be changed by making more jobs available for un-financially fit people. Also by giving more financial opportunities for those who have been to college, but the degree doesn't get them a good paying job or a job at all to handle the financial crisis that they may be going through. A point he made that stuck with me was a hypothetical statement about men who don't pay for child support. Yes it's some out there who choose not too but for those who literally can't pay don't have a job…

Global Financial Crisis (hereinafter the Crisis) has been the most significant financial disaster of the twenty-first century thus far. With hindsight, it is possible to isolate the causes of the crisis and so be able to gauge the responses of political thinkers. As the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression, it was natural that the political responses of the time would be both highly important and highly controversial. In order to understand the causes of the crisis, one…

United States economy slipped into a recession that would become the most profound financial crisis since the Great Depression. The origin of the recession varies by which economist is asked. Some economist contribute the recession to the rise in oil prices and the weak dollar. The common theory to the 2007-08 financial crisis is the collapse of the housing market bubble and the related subprime mortgage crisis. Consequently, the results of these two problems contributed to the decline of both…