a day jobs, there are entrepreneurs who become self-made CEO’s and start businesses on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter. Unfortunately one tradition that many have chosen to continue from our parents past is astronomical amounts of debt (Alini 2010). The main difference…
Would you Do This Deal? PimerMed Products, Inc. Ben Carlile 4-17-16 Welcome back. Last week we presented an opportunity to finance $6MM in production equipment for a medical device manufacturer. We are reviewing the transaction from the perspective of an equipment finance firm (ABC) that was recently acquired by a local bank (FCB). More information here: ________________ Below are simplified highlights of our decision-making process: First, in checking our Risk Appetite Statements, we…
Fiscal policy is the federal government’s plan for funding and running federal programs. The goals of fiscal policy are to make it possible for government programs to run so that they can help struggling Americans. The tools that are used for fiscal policy are taxing US residents to fund government help programs and spending the money from taxes for the year in the aid programs. The federal government uses fiscal policy to help stabilize and promote growth in the economy by focusing parts of the…
Legalization argumentative essay Harrison Lantier As one walks through a ghettoized, gang-ridden state, one might wonder; how is this happening in our first-world democracy?”. Whilst walking through the south side of Chicago, one might be reminded of the city of Aleppo. Like many other American cities, Chicago is plagued by a disease much more dangerous than the common cold, and indeed many increments more tragic. For this infection that plagues innocent people and claims their lives is not…
Figure 16 displays church payments for all things (excluding capital projects like renovations) at the individual attendee level. As a church increases in attendance size its per person non-capital spending increases. The conference spends $1,705 per attendee on non-capital expenses. Larger churches spend more per attendee; except for Group 400+ at $1,468. Figure 17 – Capital Spending per Attendee Capital spending per attendee shows how much the church is spending on projects of property,…
U.S. debt is the total of all outstanding debt owed by the federal government. As of September 2014, the national debt is over $17. Trillion. (1) America's debt is the largest in the world for a single country. It is second only to that of the European Union, which is an economic union that consist of 28 countries. (2) At this point, it is important to define what “debt” is and what types of debt exist. What Is Debt ? There are two types of debt, “Public Debt” and “Private Debt”. Public debt is…
December 2015 National Debt American politicians should address the key issue of national debt as a platform to carry them through their presidential campaign. The increasing national debt is at an all time high of 18.2 trillion dollars. This national debt affects the citizens of the United States by raising their interest rates, inflation and decreasing economic growth. If the national debt doesn’t get addressed, the United States could be looking at 20.6 trillion dollars in debt by the year…
Throughout the history of the United States, the country has almost always had some form of public debt since it's inception in 1776. This is true, not only for the U.S., but every country around the world. Almost any governing body, including the world's population, has incurred debt at some point in their existence. If this pertains to every country around the planet, who is there to pick up each nation's "tab" besides other governments? Centuries of assistance and development between nations…
difficult to tell the difference between U.S. deficit and U.S. debt. To make a distinction, the national is consider the total amount of the federal government owed to individuals, corporations, states, local governments, foreign governments, and other entities outside of the United States Government; while the deficit is the difference between what the governments take in and what it have to spend annually. According to US Debt Clock, the U.S. debt had hit $19.9 trillion as of March 24, 2017.…
Going for Broke, Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis The presenter was Michael Tanner, Senior Fellow, at Cato Institute. He talked about the budget deficits which was more than $1.3 trillion in 2011 and becomes around $0.44 trillion in 2015. After that, the economists such as Paul Krugman said “the deficit problem is mostly solved”. But there is a problem, the projected deficits will be more than 1 trillion dollars in 10 years. The budget deficit is how much money the government spend…