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analyze products that give the countries absolute and comparative advantage as well as factors that might prevent achievement of the two states. Economic, Political, and Cultural development Australia Australia’s GDP for the year 2016 was 1.205 trillion US dollars. Australia’s economic growth rate is 2.8% per year. It has an unemployment…

kept the land it used to have (including Texas) it would have had around yearly 4.355 trillion more US dollars (Or $4,355,000,000). In fact California makes up to 2.4 Trillion US dollars yearly (Or 2,400,000,000), so basically half of the GDP in Mexico's former territory. So, in conclusion if Mexico had kept their territory and all the company's that are currently there, Mexico would have a GDP of 5.616 Trillion Dollars (Or $5,616,000,000). US didn’t really want war, instead it was because in…

The CBO estimates the costs of the Iraq war, projected out through 2017, might top $1 trillion, plus and extra $705 billion in interest payments, and the total cost of Iraq and Afghanistan combined could reach $2.4…

Title “The war on drugs is a war against the communities” (Holly Near). In 1971, President Nixon called a war on drugs. Since then, millions of people have been incarcerated for drug offenses. The U.S. Prison System has used the “war on drugs” as an excuse to lock up millions of people in the U.S. Targeted drug laws, unfair enforcement of drug use, and drug sentencing disparities are all major issues that need to be addressed. People are getting targeted for drugs. One of the texts that…

Money Pit “It’s reminiscent of a shark that will die if it doesn’t keep moving and ripping little fish to shreds”, says Mark Lebovich of the New York Times. American Football has become a religion. American Football is everywhere and seems to be governed by some Constitution-like power. “The sport provides a belief system at a time when faith in so many community institutions - government, religion, actual families – is weakening.” Currently the league faces many challenges such as player health…

people. We have 7 billion people in the world. Every person has two parents, and every one of them had two parents, every one of them had two parents. If you keep going back, that’s like trillions of people in the world. But in the past there weren’t trillions of people in the world. So how do you get trillions of parents but you only had a fraction of the population that we have today? The family tree of humanity is converging. If someone asks you, What are you?, typically implying what is your…

mentioned that our deficit now is larger than it was in 1945 and every year since but at the time this article was written he noted that the total debt stood at $16 trillion and while it was not yet at the debt ceiling that the government has set, it was quickly approaching it. Even now our debt continues to grow, it is now at over $19 trillion dollars. The federal deficit has gotten smaller, it dropped from 10.1% of the GDP in 2009 to 9.0% in 2010 and it dropped even further to 8.7% and 7% in…

that America has given this generation with polluted air, water, and sound as a so called “gift”. Over the years, the world has become more and more polluted. 1.2 trillion gallons of sewage and waste is dumped into waters around the United States every single year. Pollution is irreversible and we’ve been left with trillions and trillions of gallons of sewage. We can’t reverse the damage it’s done to our country, our planet, and our people. Our water sources are becoming toxic due to the…

countries like the US and the UK, Eventually got Ireland to eradicate the Double Irish arrangement. World powers like the US, UK, France, and Germany need to start taking the issue of tax avoidance more seriously. Corporate tax evasion is stealing trillions of dollars from the world economy and putting it in a bank somewhere. Global trade is meant to strengthen all countries by allowing money to be more freely flowing. However, allowing corporations to steal and stash money is hurting everyone…

The global derivative market had reached nearly 530 trillion dollars and the global Credit Default Swap (CDS) market was up to 62 trillion by mid-2008. Of the 62 trillion dollars in CDS, 80 percent were reportedly speculative. American International Group (AIG) had sold 440 billion in CDS that were tied to mortgage securities. The company was not required to have…