Martin Wolf MARCH 24 2020
The coronavirus seeks only to replicate. We seek to halt that replication. Unlike the virus, humans make
choices. This pandemic will pass into history. But the way in which it passes will shape the world it leaves
behind. It is the first such pandemic for a century. And it comes to a world that — unlike in 1918, when
the Spanish flu hit — has been at peace and enjoys unprecedented wealth. We should be able to
manage it well. If we do not do so, this will be a turning point for the worse. Making the right decisions
requires that we understand the options and their moral implications. We now confront two
fundamental sets of choices: within our countries and across borders. In high-income countries, the
biggest choice is how aggressively to halt transmission of the virus. But we also need to decide who will
bear the costs of that choice and how. Some continue to argue that it is wrong to force the economy
into a depression to suppress transmission of the virus. This, they suggest, will cause unnecessary
disruption. If, instead, the virus is left to spread relatively freely, we can achieve “herd immunity”,
sustain the economy and still focus resources on the vulnerable. Yet it is not clear that the economy
would fare better under this relatively laissez faire “mitigation” policy than under one of determined
“suppression”. Long before government-imposed lockdowns, many people stopped travelling or going
to restaurants, cinemas or shops. Decisive action to suppress the virus and follow up with testing and
tracking of new infections could well end the inevitable economic slump even sooner than otherwise.
What seems quite certain is the global health system would fare much better under suppression than
mitigation. Under the latter, argues the Imperial College Covid-19 Response Team, the health systems of
the UK and US would be overwhelmed: large numbers of predominantly old people would be left to die
untreated. It was presumably to prevent this from happening across China that the government
suppressed the virus so fiercely in Hubei. Could a health calamity that is unacceptable in China be
acceptable in the UK or US? Yet the critics are also right: it will be impossible to close large parts of our
economies for very long. If suppression is to be tried, it must be successful quickly and resurgence of the
virus must be throttled. Meanwhile, central banks and governments must seek to keep as much of the
economy going as possible, preserve as much productive capacity intact as possible and ensure that the
people, above all the vulnerable, are generously protected in whatever way a country finds practical.
The solidarity between countries needs to be as strong as within them. The financial instability and
looming recession (probably depression) we see coming will inflict huge harm on emerging and
developing countries. The IMF states that investors have already removed $83.
The end of globalization with the new coronavirus pandemicFernando Alcoforado
This article aims to demonstrate that contemporary globalization is threatened due to the continuing depression in the world economy that started in 2008, the pandemic of the new Coronavirus that shook international trade, the dizzying public, family and business indebtedness further aggravated by the pandemic. and the deepening of the economic stagnation that hit the entire world economy. The world faces the prospect of profound change with a return to the national economy that would be self-sufficient. This shift is the exact opposite of globalization. The longer the pandemic lasts, it will compromise globalization and reinforce the discourse of the search for national self-sufficiency.
CASE STUDY CAPITALISM This case views the global, capitalistMaximaSheffield592
CASE STUDY CAPITALISM
This case views the global, capitalist economic system through the prism of the 2007–2008 financial crisis (referred to here as the
Financial Crisis). More than a decade later, what more do we now know? How did the crisis emerge, and what were its consequences
(short- and long-term)? What challenges does it present for capitalism today? What was the role of social responsibility? And
perhaps most importantly, what changes does a strategic CSR perspective suggest moving forward?
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
In many ways, the dramatic economic events that began toward the end of 20071 (widely reported as “the most serious financial
crisis since the Great Crash of 1929”2 or the “Great Recession”3) brought into focus the comprehensive nature of CSR. From
individual greed and the abdication of responsibility to organizational fraud and the mismanagement of resources, to governmental
failure to monitor and adequately regulate the financial system, the crisis emphasized the many interlocking factors that make CSR so
complex. At the same time, and with the benefit of hindsight, these events demonstrate how straightforward CSR can be. At its
simplest, CSR is not rocket science. It is often common sense, combined with an enlightened approach to management and decision
making. To look back at some of the decisions that contributed to the economic crisis and try to rationalize why they were made,
however, represents an exercise in exasperation:
What do you call giving a worker who makes only $14,000 a year a nothing-down and nothing-to-pay-for-twoyears
mortgage to buy a $750,000 home, and then bundling that mortgage with 100 others into bonds—which
Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s rate[s] AAA—and then selling them to banks and pension funds the world over?4
Essentially, the crisis resulted from the cumulative effects of multiple bad decisions by many individuals who had lost their sense of perspective.5 What was amazing
at the time was “how so many people could be so stupid . . . and self-destructive all at once”
6
to produce “a near total breakdown of responsibility at every link in our financial chain.”7 The scale of
At the height of the boom, the subprime mortgage industry in the United States had clearly lost all sense of proportion. The result
was higher default rates and, as a consequence, higher rates of home repossessions:
Between 2005 and 2007, which was the peak of sub-prime lending, the top 25 subprime originators made almost
$1,000bn in loans to more than 5m borrowers, many of whom have [since] had their homes repossessed.10
The industry as a whole experienced all the signs of a bubble, the aftermath of which generated dramatic headlines such as “Sex,
Lies, and Mortgage Deals.”11 As a society, we should have picked this up earlier and acted to diffuse it. As such, the Financial Crisis
highlights the central role of CSR in today’s global business environment. It is a lens through which excesses ...
The end of globalization with the new coronavirus pandemicFernando Alcoforado
This article aims to demonstrate that contemporary globalization is threatened due to the continuing depression in the world economy that started in 2008, the pandemic of the new Coronavirus that shook international trade, the dizzying public, family and business indebtedness further aggravated by the pandemic. and the deepening of the economic stagnation that hit the entire world economy. The world faces the prospect of profound change with a return to the national economy that would be self-sufficient. This shift is the exact opposite of globalization. The longer the pandemic lasts, it will compromise globalization and reinforce the discourse of the search for national self-sufficiency.
CASE STUDY CAPITALISM This case views the global, capitalistMaximaSheffield592
CASE STUDY CAPITALISM
This case views the global, capitalist economic system through the prism of the 2007–2008 financial crisis (referred to here as the
Financial Crisis). More than a decade later, what more do we now know? How did the crisis emerge, and what were its consequences
(short- and long-term)? What challenges does it present for capitalism today? What was the role of social responsibility? And
perhaps most importantly, what changes does a strategic CSR perspective suggest moving forward?
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
In many ways, the dramatic economic events that began toward the end of 20071 (widely reported as “the most serious financial
crisis since the Great Crash of 1929”2 or the “Great Recession”3) brought into focus the comprehensive nature of CSR. From
individual greed and the abdication of responsibility to organizational fraud and the mismanagement of resources, to governmental
failure to monitor and adequately regulate the financial system, the crisis emphasized the many interlocking factors that make CSR so
complex. At the same time, and with the benefit of hindsight, these events demonstrate how straightforward CSR can be. At its
simplest, CSR is not rocket science. It is often common sense, combined with an enlightened approach to management and decision
making. To look back at some of the decisions that contributed to the economic crisis and try to rationalize why they were made,
however, represents an exercise in exasperation:
What do you call giving a worker who makes only $14,000 a year a nothing-down and nothing-to-pay-for-twoyears
mortgage to buy a $750,000 home, and then bundling that mortgage with 100 others into bonds—which
Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s rate[s] AAA—and then selling them to banks and pension funds the world over?4
Essentially, the crisis resulted from the cumulative effects of multiple bad decisions by many individuals who had lost their sense of perspective.5 What was amazing
at the time was “how so many people could be so stupid . . . and self-destructive all at once”
6
to produce “a near total breakdown of responsibility at every link in our financial chain.”7 The scale of
At the height of the boom, the subprime mortgage industry in the United States had clearly lost all sense of proportion. The result
was higher default rates and, as a consequence, higher rates of home repossessions:
Between 2005 and 2007, which was the peak of sub-prime lending, the top 25 subprime originators made almost
$1,000bn in loans to more than 5m borrowers, many of whom have [since] had their homes repossessed.10
The industry as a whole experienced all the signs of a bubble, the aftermath of which generated dramatic headlines such as “Sex,
Lies, and Mortgage Deals.”11 As a society, we should have picked this up earlier and acted to diffuse it. As such, the Financial Crisis
highlights the central role of CSR in today’s global business environment. It is a lens through which excesses ...
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MAT308Chapter 10 Test (75 Points)Show You Work!(1) The mean .docxtienboileau
MAT308
Chapter 10 Test (75 Points)
Show You Work!
(1) The mean number of hours of sleep for adults in the population of the U.S. is 6.8. A researcher believes that the mean number of hours that college students get per night is significantly different from adults in the population. The mean number of hours of sleep in a sample of 25 college students is 7.1 hours. The standard deviation of this sample is 0.87. Does the data provide support for the researcher's prediction? α level: 0.05
(15 Points)
Ho:
Ha:
Level of Significance:
Test Statistic:
P-Value:
Decision Reject or Fail to Reject:
Conclusion:
(2) Is the percentage of Creamery customers who prefer chocolate ice cream over vanilla less than 80%? In a sample of 50 customers 60% preferred chocolate over vanilla. α level: 0.05 (15 Points)
Ho:
Ha:
Level of Significance:
Test Statistic:
P-Value:
Decision Reject or Fail to Reject:
Conclusion:
(3) A manufacturer finds that baseballs dropped 24 ft. onto a concrete surface are supposed to bounce an average of 93 in. The manufacturer of the balls has moved to a new facility, and there is concern that the balls are different. One hundred balls were sampled and it was found that the average of the bounce height was 92.232 with a standard deviation of 1.56. . α level: 0.05 (15 Points)
Ho:
Ha:
Level of Significance:
Test Statistic:
P-Value:
Decision Reject or Fail to Reject:
Conclusion:
(4) The mean Verbal SAT score for the population of all first students at Radford is 520. The standard deviation of scores in this population is 95. An investigator believes that the mean Verbal SAT of first year psychology majors is significantly different from the mean score of population. The mean of a sample of 36 first year psychology majors is 540. Please test the investigator's prediction using an alpha level of 0.05. (15 Points)
Ho:
Ha:
Level of Significance:
Test Statistic:
P-Value:
Decision Reject or Fail to Reject:
Conclusion:
(5) First graders in the state of Virginia get an average score of 20 on a reading test (higher score reflect higher levels of performance). A teacher is using a new method to teach reading. She predicts that by the end of the first grade, students getting her new method will have significantly higher scores on reading than those in the population. The mean of the 25 students in her class is 23.2 and the standard deviation of the students in the class is 4.7. Use an alpha level of 0.05. (15 Points)
Ho:
Ha:
Level of Significance:
Test Statistic:
P-Value:
Decision Reject or Fail to Reject:
Conclusion:
Two Part assignment requiring articulate, professionally written content, that is non repetitive? Plagiarism sensitive. Please use MLA format and must cite all resources and references.
Part One - Following the works Cited listed below of scholarly articles regarding The play “The Homecoming”, by Harold Pinter create10 pages of competent, utilizing those listed or others of schol.
Masters level forum Compare and contrast what President Woodrow .docxtienboileau
Masters level forum
Compare and contrast what President Woodrow Wilson and Frank Goodnow said about politics and public administration. Discuss and critique their writings and analyze the politics-administration dichotomy, whether the dichotomy is real or ideal, and how they impacted public administration today.
3 citations
500 word minimum
lesson attached
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Mass movementChoose oneA. happens only when the slope .docxtienboileau
Mass movement
Choose one:
A. happens only when the slope of a hill gets steeper than the angle of repose.
B. can't happen underwater because the buoyancy force of water is too great.
C. is a gravity-driven downslope movement of natural materials.
D. is more likely to happen under dry conditions than under wet conditions.
Which of the following processes most logically explains the different tilts of gravestones in a hillside cemetery?
Choose one:
A. slump
B. creep
C. mudflow
D. liquefaction
Avalanches
Choose one:
A. are slow mass-movement events.
B. never happen twice in the same place; therefore, the pathway an avalanche creates is a safe place to build.
C. always contain snow and/or ice.
D. can be triggered by explosions, people, or even just new snow.
Solifluction
Choose one:
A. is a kind of creep that is found in high-elevation regions or in the Arctic on slopes that are underlain by permafrost.
B. is the proper term for alternate expanding and contracting of swelling clays.
C. means that the level of the water table fluctuates with precipitation.
D. is a faster-than-usual kind of slump in wetlands.
Identify the true statement.
Choose one:
A. The angle of repose is the steepest angle at which unconsolidated sediments can sit without slipping downhill.
B. The head scarp of a slump is found at the base of the slump block.
C. Lahars are mudflows that have been triggered by earthquake shaking.
D. Slow movement of unconsolidated material downslope is called a turbidity current.
Which of the following is a suitable method of managing snow avalanches?
Choose one:
A. increasing the slope's load by planting vegetation on the cornice of mountain slopes
B. expansive water drainage systems
C. targeted, controlled explosions
D. allowing skiers to use only avalanche chutes (regions where avalanches will not occur)
Identify the true statement.
Choose one:
A. Weathering does not affect the stability of a slope.
B. Vegetation is heavy, and therefore deforesting an area can help keep slopes stable.
C. Forest fires followed by heavy rains are likely to result in severe mud and debris flows.
D. Saturating a slope with water tends to hold unconsolidated grains together and thus helps stabilize slopes.
Consider the following eight phrases:
1. careful inventory and mapping to determine dangers
2. weathering of minerals to produce clay
3. controlled blasting of unstable slopes
4. controlled water drainage
5. retaining walls along highway embankments
6. spraying shotcrete on road cuts
7. removing support at the toe of the slope
8. adding weight at the top of the slope
Which of these are factors that lead to mass movement?
Choose one:
A. choices 3 and 8 only
B. choices 2, 7, and 8
C. choices 1, 2, and 4
D. choices 2, 4, 7, and 8
Watch the
Submarine Slide
portion of the
Slides
topic of the animation. How can a submarine slide at the edge of a continental shelf create a tsunami?
Choose .
Marys one year old daughter is due to be given the Measles, Mum.docxtienboileau
Mary's one year old daughter is due to be given the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine during her next visit to the doctor. Mary is upset and concerned because one of her friend's sons became ill after a similar vaccination. She has also heard rumors that MMR vaccine causes rubella. Mary was also told that her daughter will need to be vaccinated before Mary returns to work. Mary is not alone. Many parents face this issue. Therefore, it is important for Mary and all such parents to make decisions that are best for their children, based on facts and not emotions. Place yourself in the role of a health care worker, submit to the discussion area your plan to validate the importance of vaccination by addressing the following questions:
Why are vaccinations necessary components of the healthcare programs?
Are there reasons for people not being vaccinated despite of such elaborate healthcare programs? Explain.
What are the consequences of people not being vaccinated?
What is the impact of religious, cultural, legal, and ethical issues that parents need to consider before vaccination?
What type of information will help the parents make an informed decision about vaccinating their children?
As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
Your initial posting should be addressed at 150-300 words. Be sure to cite your sources using APA format.
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Masaccio, Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1426-27.docxtienboileau
Masaccio, Trinity, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, 1426-27
Often credited with being the first painting employing scientific, single-point perspective—discovered by Brunelleschi only a few years earlier—looks like actual space that recedes—at center of fresco we see Holy Trinity—body of Christ, dove, and God the Father—head of dove looks down at Christ—incredible rendering of human body—pulled, tortured, affected by gravity—what happens to muscles of body—evokes sympathy (hollow of abdomen), bleeding—deep faithfulnessscientific observation—on left Mary points towards Christ, holds out hand (way to salvation)—on right St. John—donors on lower level—at bottom exposed tomb—inscription reads ‘As I am now, so you shall be. As you are now, so once was I.’—memento mori—imminence of death—reminder of death, prepare now for salvation—eternal life in Heaven—innovation of new perspective—specific viewpoint for viewer—architecture based on ancient Greek and Roman architecture—Masaccio shows off—not simple tile floor—modeling to show dimension, sculptural relief—proportional accuracy of the bodies—culture of trade in Florence—buy/sell, fractions, space volumes, analytic and rational culture
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1500
Investigation of the
Ferguson Police Department
United States Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
March 4, 2015
i
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. REPORT SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ 1
II. BACKGROUND .................................................................................................................. 6
III. FERGUSON LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS ARE FOCUSED ON
GENERATING REVENUE ............................................................................................... 9
IV. FERGUSON LAW ENFORCEMENT PRACTICES VIOLATE THE LAW AND
UNDERMINE COMMUNITY TRUST, ESPECIALLY AMONG AFRICAN
AMERICANS .................................................................................................................... 15
A. Ferguson’s Police Practices ............................................................................................ 15
1. FPD Engages in a Pattern of Unconstitutional Stops and Arrests in Violation
of the Fourth Amendment ..................................................................................... 16
2. FPD Engages in a Pattern of First Amendment Violations .................................. 24
3. FPD Engages in a Pattern of Excessive Force in Violation of the Fourth
Amendment ........................................................................................................... 28
B. Ferguson’s Municipal Court Practices ........................................................................... 42
1. Court Practices Impose Substantial and Unnecessary Barriers to the
Challenge or Resolution of Municipal Code Violations .......................
Matthew Shepard Was Killed Due To His Sexual Orientation. Defend, Ch.docxtienboileau
Matthew Shepard Was Killed Due To His Sexual Orientation. Defend, Challenge, Or Qualify This Statement
qualify his death
thesis statement There is substantial evidence to support that Matt Shepard's death was because of his sexual orientation. However, there is also a growing body of evidence that suggest Matt's death was because of drug dealing and drug uses
have two supporting evidence paragraphy a nd site the source
Turn-it –in the report and checkyour work and make sure it will be Grammarly approved.
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MBA 665 Final Project Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric .docxtienboileau
MBA 665 Final Project Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of an impact of governmental action on a business paper. For Milestone Three you will submit the
Analysis section of your final project, which is Section II of the critical elements. Your analysis should include answers to all the questions in the Analysis section
on business environment, sustainability, internal resources, communication, company image, response, impact, and external resources.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I. Analysis: After submitting your overview, your boss is having second thoughts about bringing Jack Harris and his firm, Crisis Consulting, on board. Before
he makes his final decision he has asked you to provide him with a thorough analysis of the situation faced by your business. He asks you to prepare a
memorandum to him (the CEO) analyzing the situation that your business faces as well as the resources that are available to it. Address the following:
A. Business Environment: Based on your analysis of the governmental action or political challenge, what will be the impact of the governmental
action or political challenge on the business’s financial situation and operations? Does the action represent an opportunity or a threat?
B. Sustainability: Based on your analysis of the governmental action or political challenge, how will the governmental action or political challenge
impact the sustainability of the business?
C. Internal Resources: Evaluate the internal resources of the company, including the business project teams that are available to respond to the
opportunity or threat. In other words, is the business adequately organized to address the opportunity or threat?
D. Communication: How has information about the situation been communicated to various stakeholders? For example, have any public hearings
been held? Have the radio, newspapers, or social media been used?
E. Company Image: Assess how the situation has affected the company’s public image. Has the impact been primarily positive or negative? If the
impact has been primarily negative, what are the positive aspects in addition to the negative aspects? If the impact has been primarily positive,
what are the negative aspects in addition to the positive aspects?
F. Response: What are the potential courses of action to respond to the situation in the current macroeconomic and business environment? In
other words, what is the range of options for the business in this situation?
G. Impact: How will these courses of action impact the business? Make sure to consider both short- and long-term impacts, including operational,
financial, and ethical implications.
H. External Resources: Evaluate the roles and functions of third parties or external resources in the situation. Consider questions such as these in
your response: How will lobbyists be involved in the situation? .
max 200 words due in 2 hoursSummarize the article by parap.docxtienboileau
max 200 words
due in 2 hours
Summarize the article by paraphrasing the major points in it. Begin with the central idea and give an overview. Then describe the supporting points. As well, capture the development of the supporting points and show how the writer supports them. Be objective and avoid evaluative and judgmental statements in this section. (200 words maximum)
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MBA 599 – Strategic Management Case Project This capsto.docxtienboileau
MBA 599 – Strategic Management Case Project
This capstone course requires each student to construct a detailed and well-thought-out analysis of a
business employing all the relevant strategic analysis tools studied in the course. This project will take the
full term to complete. It is our sincere hope that you will find this project to be the most rewarding effort in
your educational career.
Project Overview
This course is designed to help you develop strategic skills that can be used in management. The
process of strategic planning is an iterative cycle of research and analysis, ending with a series of choices
about what will be attempted and how it will be approached. The most tangible output is the strategic
planning document. The most important output is the increased understanding that the participants
acquire. Accordingly, the assessment of the final project will be heavily dependent on the quality of the
strategic thinking inside that polished report. Students that focus on the expeditious completion of the
steps may find that they have shortchanged the important and time-consuming exploration and thinking
that is necessary to create a quality strategic case. Since not all tools can tell the planner which factors
and alternatives are important to consider, the planner should pull in as much diverse information and
perspectives as possible. Additionally, you should put yourselves in the competitor’s shoes and consider
how the “game” will play out. Your homework and subsequent improvements are intended to become a
primary basis for the exploration and questioning that drives your strategic understanding and creative
ideas. In addition, it is important to test your strategic thinking and your use of analytical tools in
preparation for your final project.
Tips for Selecting an Organization
As you select an organization for your class project, it is important that you select one that is interesting,
possibly useful to you in your career, industry, or interests, and allows you to explore strategic challenges
in a meaningful way. If you select the industry in which you currently work, you must address two critical
issues: (1) integrating and clearly citing existing information. (You will need to delineate work you’ve
contributed as opposed to pre-existing information), and (2) succinctly presenting existing information
while adding new insight, analysis, and plans that substantially add to strategy development,
implementation, and/or assessment of the organization. An organization or industry you are interested in
should give you better access to information although you need to pay careful attention to the points
made above.
Do not underestimate the degree to which you will need to be an expert in the selected industry and
related areas. It is impossible to create a strategy without understanding the terms, technologies, market
changes, and so forth in great depth. A.
MBA 640 Final Project Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric .docxtienboileau
MBA 640 Final Project Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric
Overview: The final project for this course is the creation of an external capital funding proposal.
Most businesses face a landscape of uncertainty and a never-ending stream of risks and opportunities. Managers must continually project the likely financial
impact of decisions, make recommendations, act on those decisions, determine how to pay for them, and evaluate the costs and effectiveness of what has been
done. Many decisions are short-term, routine, and operational. Others are longer-term investment decisions that require substantial new resources, such as
developing new services, expanding into new geographic markets, or undertaking business combinations or spin-offs. Each requires managers to forecast, plan,
and make decisions based on a thorough understanding of both internal and external factors that can affect a company’s financial success.
For the summative assessment in this course, you will bring your finance and economics knowledge to bear by preparing an external capital funding proposal for
a major international investment at a publicly traded corporation. In order to secure the support of potential financial backers, your proposal will need to lay out
what the proposed investment opportunity is, how it fits within the company’s broader mission and goals, its financial impact, and the amount being requested
and why (including alternative funding mechanisms considered). In addition, it will also need to include information on the organization’s context, risk factors,
and microeconomic assumptions that could affect the success of the investment.
Prompt: Submit a paper that addresses critical element IV, Risks, of the final project. Discuss any risks that might affect the success of the project and how you
have planned for those contingencies.
Note: The risks (and opportunities) you identify should demonstrate your understanding of the company you selected, the industry, the investment project you
are proposing, and your project’s country and timing. Your estimates of financial impacts will be only preliminary; you will most likely revise them in your final
submission at the end of Module Nine.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
Section IV Risks:
1. Internal. What are the company’s most significant internal risks and opportunities related to the project? How might they affect your financial estimates
and how will you address them? Support your response with specific examples.
2. External. How will you address significant qualitative risks outside the company that might affect project success? Give specific examples. For example,
how might culture or politics in the target country affect the proposed investment’s financial success? Natural disasters? How have you planned for
these risks?
3. Microeconomic. Assess the microeconomic factors that might affect decisions about the proposed investment. .
Mary and Elmer’s fifth child, Melvin, was born 6 weeks prematurely a.docxtienboileau
Mary and Elmer’s fifth child, Melvin, was born 6 weeks prematurely and is 1-month old. Sarah, age 13, Martin, age 12, and Wayne, age 8, attend the Amish elementary school located 1 mile from their home. Lucille, age 4, is staying with Mary’s sister and her family for a week because baby Melvin has been having respiratory problems, and their physician told the family he will need to be hospitalized if he does not get better within 2 days.
Choose two or three areas of prenatal care that you would want to discuss with Mary, and then write brief notes about what you know and/or need to learn about Amish values to discuss perinatal care in a way that is culturally congruent.
Discuss three Amish values, beliefs, or practices to consider when preparing to do prenatal education classes with Amish patients.
Submission Instructions:
Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.
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Maryland Technology Consultants is a fictitious company create.docxtienboileau
Maryland Technology Consultants is a fictitious company created for the IFSM 300 Case Study.
MTC Case Study 11/23/2019 Ver. 1 1
Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc.
Maryland Technology Consultants (MTC) is a successful Information Technology consulting firm
that utilizes proven IT and management methodologies to achieve measurable results for its
customers. Its customer base includes small to mid-tier businesses, non-profit organizations
and governmental agencies at the local, state and federal levels. MTC feels strongly that its
success is dependent on the combination of the talent of its IT consultants in the areas of,
Business Process Consulting, IT Consulting and IT Outsourcing Consulting and their ability to
deliver truly extraordinary results to their clients.
Corporate Profile
Corporate Name: Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc.
Founded: May 2008
Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland
Satellite Locations: Herndon, Virginia; Bethesda, Maryland
Number of Employees: 450
Total Annual Gross Revenue: $95,000,000
President and
Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Samuel Johnson
Business Areas
MTC provides consulting services in the following areas:
• Business Process Consulting - Business process redesign, process improvement, and best
practices
• IT Consulting - IT strategy, analysis, planning, system development, implementation, and
network support
• IT Outsourcing Consulting – Requirements analysis; vendor evaluation, due diligence,
selection and performance management; Service Level Agreements
Business Strategy
MTC's business strategy is to provide extraordinary consulting services and recommendations
to its customers by employing highly skilled consultants and staying abreast of new business
concepts and technology and/or developing new business concepts and best practices of its
own.
Maryland Technology Consultants is a fictitious company created for the IFSM 300 Case Study.
MTC Case Study 11/23/2019 Ver. 1 2
Excerpt from the MTC Strategic Business Plan
While the complete strategic plan touches on many areas, below is an excerpt from MTC’s
latest Strategic Business Plan that identifies a few of MTC's Goals.
Goal 1: Increase MTC Business Development by winning new contracts in the areas of IT
consulting.
Goal 2: Build a cadre of consultants internationally to provide remote research and analysis
support to MTC’s onsite teams in the U. S.
Goal 3: Continue to increase MTC’s ability to quickly provide high quality consultants to
awarded contracts to best serve the clients’ needs.
Goal 4: Increase MTC’s competitive advantage in the IT consulting marketplace by increasing its
reputation for having IT consultants who are highly skilled in leading edge technologies and
innovative solutions for its clients.
Current Business Environment
MTC provides consultants on-site to work with its cli.
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Martha Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings
FOR THE THEORY CRITIQUE of Martha Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings
SUGGESTION: Get article/s which are CRITIQUES of the THEORY ASSIGNED TO YOU
CRITERIA
UNITS OF ANALYSIS
CRITIQUE ARTICLE NO. 1
(Author of Critique)
CRITIQUE ARTICLE NO. 2
(Author of Critique)
MY VIEWPOINT
(3.1) Relationship between
structure and function
(3.1.1) Clarity
(3.1.2) Consistency
(3.1.3) Simplicity / Complexity
(3.1.4) Tautology / Teleology
(3.2) Diagram of Theory
(3.2.1) Visual and Graphic Presentation
(3.2.2) Logical Representation
(3.2.3) Clarity
(3.3) Circle of Contagiousness
(3.3.1) Graphical origin of theory and geographical spread
(3.3.2) Influence of theorist versus theory
(4) Usefulness
(4.1) Practice
(4.1.1) Direction
(4.1.2) Applicability
(4.1.3) Generalizability
(4.1.4) Cost Effectiveness
(4.1.5) Relevance
(4.2) Research
(4.2.1) Consistency
(4.2.2) Testability
(4.2.3)
Predictability
(4.3) Education
(4.3.1) Philosophical Statement
(4.3.2) Objectives
(4.3.3) Concepts
(4.4) Administration
(4.4.1) Structure of Care
(4.4.2) Organization of Care
(4.4.3) Guidelines for Patient Care
(4.4.4) Patient Classification System
(5) External Components of Theory
(5.1) Personal Values
(5.1.1) Theorist implicit/explicit values
(5.2) Congruence with other professional values
(5.2.1) Comlementarity
(5.2.2) Esoterism
(5.2.3)
Competition
(5.3) Congruence with social values
(5.3.1) Beliefs
(5.3.2) Values
(5.3.3) Customs
(5.4) Social Significance
ISM 645 Mission, Vision, and Time Horizon Statement (MVTH)
Worksheet
The following information is provided to assist you in writing the Mission, Vision, and Time Horizon
Statements.
Writing the Mission Statement – Comparisons
The mission statement describes the purpose of the organization and the reason the business or business
unit exists. You will be creating an IT mission statement for the Acme Company. Review the article,
“Mission Statements.” Then, based on what you have learned, evaluate the mission statements of the
following service companies:
• Microsoft®
“At Microsoft, our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the
world realize their full potential.”
• Apple®
“Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork
and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes
online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App
store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.”
In your evaluation, consider the positive aspects as well as the shortfalls of the statements. Do your own
additional research on these companies and consider whether the company’s strategic approach aligns
with its mission statement.
Writing the Vision Statement – Comparisons
The vision statement describes the business o.
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MTC Case Study 11/23/2019 Ver. 1 1
Maryland Technology Consultants, Inc.
Maryland Technology Consultants (MTC) is a successful Information Technology consulting firm
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CRITERIA
UNITS OF ANALYSIS
CRITIQUE ARTICLE NO. 1
(Author of Critique)
CRITIQUE ARTICLE NO. 2
(Author of Critique)
MY VIEWPOINT
(3.1) Relationship between
structure and function
(3.1.1) Clarity
(3.1.2) Consistency
(3.1.3) Simplicity / Complexity
(3.1.4) Tautology / Teleology
(3.2) Diagram of Theory
(3.2.1) Visual and Graphic Presentation
(3.2.2) Logical Representation
(3.2.3) Clarity
(3.3) Circle of Contagiousness
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(3.3.2) Influence of theorist versus theory
(4) Usefulness
(4.1) Practice
(4.1.1) Direction
(4.1.2) Applicability
(4.1.3) Generalizability
(4.1.4) Cost Effectiveness
(4.1.5) Relevance
(4.2) Research
(4.2.1) Consistency
(4.2.2) Testability
(4.2.3)
Predictability
(4.3) Education
(4.3.1) Philosophical Statement
(4.3.2) Objectives
(4.3.3) Concepts
(4.4) Administration
(4.4.1) Structure of Care
(4.4.2) Organization of Care
(4.4.3) Guidelines for Patient Care
(4.4.4) Patient Classification System
(5) External Components of Theory
(5.1) Personal Values
(5.1.1) Theorist implicit/explicit values
(5.2) Congruence with other professional values
(5.2.1) Comlementarity
(5.2.2) Esoterism
(5.2.3)
Competition
(5.3) Congruence with social values
(5.3.1) Beliefs
(5.3.2) Values
(5.3.3) Customs
(5.4) Social Significance
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and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes
online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App
store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.”
In your evaluation, consider the positive aspects as well as the shortfalls of the statements. Do your own
additional research on these companies and consider whether the company’s strategic approach aligns
with its mission statement.
Writing the Vision Statement – Comparisons
The vision statement describes the business o.
Materials for Your Works Cited PagesNOTE When you are writing.docxtienboileau
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NOTE:
When you are writing your papers for this class, you will notice that some of the versions of the primary texts that I have posted do not have any publication information. This is because I like to present the works to you in a consistent Word format. However, when you write your papers, you will be required to provide a works cited page in proper MLA format. So below you will find pre-made entries that you can cut and paste into the works cited page at the end of your papers. Of course, for any additional material you use, you will have to create the citations yourself.
If you are writing about Dante:
Alighieri, Dante.
The Inferno. Dante On Line
. Societa Dantesca Italiana, n.d. Web. 09 May 2016.
If you are writing about Antigone:
Johnston, Ian, trans.
Sophocles’
Antigone.
442 B.C. n.p. Johnstonia Web. May 2005. Web. 9
May 2016.
If you are writing about The Code of Hammurabi:
"Ancient History Sourcebook: Code of Hammurabi, C. 1780 BCE." Internet History Sourcebooks. n.p., n.d. Web. 16 May 2016.
If you are writing about: Deuteronomy:
Deuteronomy.
New International Version
. Bible Gateway. Web. 5 May 2016.
If you are writing about “The Lottery”:
Jackson, Shirley. “The Lottery.”
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Diana Gioia. 6th ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. 298-300. Print.
If you are writing about “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”:
Le, Guin U. K. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.”
The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Short Stories
. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Print.
If you are writing about the Trial of Susanna Martin:
Mather, Cotton.
The Wonders of the Invisible World
. 1693. London: John Russell Smith, 1862.
Project Gutenberg
. Web. 9 May 2016.
If you are writing about
12 Angry Men
:
12 Angry Men
. Dir. Sidney Lumet. Perf. Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb. MGM Entertainment, 2001.
Berkeley College Digital Campus
. Web. 27 Aug. 2016.
If you are writing about “A Jury of Her Peers”:
Glaspell, Susan. "A Jury of Her Peers."
A Jury of Her Peers
. Provincetown: n.p., 1916. 1-16.
Interactives
. Literature. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.
If you are writing about “In a Grove”:
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. "In a Grove." 1922.
Feedbooks
. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Aug. 2016.
If you are writing about “The Lynching of Jube Benson”:
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “The Lynching of Jube Benson.”
The Heart of Happy Hollow
. 1904.
Lit2Go.
N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Aug. 2016.
If you are writing about “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”:
Doyle, Arthur Conan. “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire.” 1924.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Canon
. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Aug. 2016.
If you are writing about “They Can Only Hang You Once”:
Hammett, Dashiell. “They Can Only Hang You Once.” 1932.
E-Reading Club
. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Aug. 2016.
If you are writing about “An Unbelievable Story of Rape”:
Miller, T. Christian and Armstrong, Ken. “An Unbelievable Story of Rape”
P.
MasubenPrivate equity firm can be very helpful for a company’s g.docxtienboileau
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Private equity firm can be very helpful for a company’s growth as its money helps in various restructuring of the company as large amounts of funding are invested in the company . It could be very helpful in developing companies' growth from grass root level. As optimum money is invested the production of goods will be more and retailers will get the product on time. Also as money is invested in advancement of technology the cost of production can be low so the retailers could make some more profit and manufacturers can make the product much quicker. As private equity holders are more concerned about their money they are actively involved in business to maximise the value. As the funding is major the return on investment will be huge which can be very helpful for manufacturers and retailers.(Piloto Sincerre, B., Sampaio, J., Famá, R., & Flores, E. S. 2019)
As every coin has two sides, sometimes private equity has its own downside. The biggest threat is to manufacturers as it can lose its ownership. As with private equity, more money is involved in business which leads to loss of a larger share of the business as private equity firms always take the larger majority stake of the business. As a private equity holder becomes actively involved in business, sometimes they overpower the management decision like hiring, business strategy, business decisions and other valuable management responsibilities. The main mission of equity holders is to generate revenue on their investment which might lead to unethical activities as larger money is involved. Also as production is increased there might be more pressure on retailers to sell the item as supply of goods will be more and demand is low.(BACON, N., WRIGHT, M., MEULEMAN, M., & SCHOLES, L. 2012) As larger money is involved the business can grow rapidly across the countries so to conclude private equity can help in growing business more.
2. Maheshwari
Private equity refers to capital that is not traded publicly. The acquisition of public manufacturing and retail firms, therefore, refers to privatization. Part of the entire firm is purchased by a high net worth individual or firm that aims at controlling it. This mostly involves buying the shares of the firm. This is mostly done by institutional investors such as pension funds and equity private firms (Chen, et al., 2020). This kind of acquisition has several effects on the firm. Some of these effects are outlined below.
a)
Huge amounts of funding
The process of private equity acquisition provides firms with a lot of capital that can transform their operations if properly budgeted for and utilized.
b)
Investor Involvement
As a result of the huge amounts of money invested by the institutional investors into the firms, they are actively involved in the operations of the firm to ensure maximization of value as opposed to other options of funding which allow for limited involvement by the lenders.
c)
Higher Retu.
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MATH 114
Discussion Board Forum 2 Prompt
Please also pay close attention to any additional specifications provided by your professor. Professors often will clarify their expectations regarding the format and presentation of your submission.
Topic – Causes of Death in 1980 and 2016
According to the 1980 Census, the United States population was approximately 226,540,000 in 1980. It grew to approximately 323,120,000 at the beginning of 2016. Using Census data for 1980 and estimates derived from mortality data for 2016, we arrive at the population estimates given in the table below:
Year
Total Population
Ages 15–24
Ages 25–44
Ages 45–64
1980
226,540,000
42,475,000
62,707,000
44,497,000
2016
323,120,000
43,500,000
85,150,000
84,300,000
The National Center for Health Statistics published a document entitled “Health, United States, 2015: With Special Feature on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities” that includes a table listing the leading causes of death in 1980 by age bracket. The CDC further produced a National Vital Statistics Reports that provided similar information for the year 2016. Under the Project Instructions link in Blackboard, you’ll find Discussion Board Forum 2: Data, a spreadsheet showing the leading causes of death in both 1980 and 2016 for these 3 age categories. Each of the first 3 questions has both a computational part and a discussion part. To get full credit for each of the discussion parts, please cite a reference to support your claims. This should not be an excessively difficult task: you can easily find information online for most of the illnesses or other causes listed in the report. All you need to do is provide the website you used (though other resources are also permitted if you prefer to use one of those).
1. Assuming that the population numbers in the above table are relatively accurate, use the Discussion Board Forum 2: Data spreadsheet to compute the deaths per 1000 people for each age group in both 1980 and 2016. Deaths per 1000 people is computed using the formula Deaths per 1000 = (# of deaths) / (total population) Do not round your answer to the nearest whole number, provide at least 2 decimal places (but no more than 4). Give these 6 values (e.g. deaths per 1000 people for ages 15–24 in 1980) and then cite a reference to discuss what might account for the changes between the deaths per 1000 in 1 of these 3 age categories between 1980 and 2016. Your discussion should be at least 40 words.
2. Besides the changes in the overall death rate in the past 3 decades, the leading causes of death vary somewhat between 1980 and 2016. Choose 1 of the 3 age ranges and select 1 cause of death from the Discussion Board Forum 2: Data spreadsheet that strikes you as noteworthy and that appears in both the 1980 and 2016 lists. For the cause of death that you selected, compute the number of deaths per 1000 in both 1980 and 2016 for your chosen age group. Do not round your answer to the nearest whole number,.
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Materials:
Geology.com (
https://geology.com/rocks/
) as a reference.
Rock pictures available in in the Google folder “Pictures for Rocks Lab”
Part 1 - Igneous Rocks
1. The texture of igneous rock is typically described as phaneritic, aphanitic, glassy, or vesicular. Briefly
describe
what each of these textures means, and how it relates to the
rate of cooling
to form the rock.
Texture
Description
Rate of Cooling
Phaneritic
Aphanitic
Glassy
Vesicular
2. Using the website and your lecture notes, state the texture for each of the following rocks.
Rock
Texture
Gabbro
Rhyolite
Obsidian
Andesite
Pumice
Granite
Basalt
Diorite
3. The composition of igneous rock is typically described as felsic, intermediate, mafic, or ultramafic. The composition of the igneous rock is determined by the minerals that are in the magma or lava that forms the rock. State the type of color that is found in igneous rocks of each type of composition. (Choose from
light, dark, dark greenish, and in between light and dark.
)
Composition
Color
Felsic
Intermediate
Mafic
Ultramafic
4. Using the website and your notes, state the composition (felsic, intermediate, mafic, ultramafic) for each of the following rocks.
Rock
Composition
Gabbro
Rhyolite
Obsidian
Andesite
Pumice
Granite
Basalt
Diorite
5. Complete the following table to identify the pictures of igneous rocks.
Texture:
phaneritic, aphanitic, glassy, or vesicular
Composition:
felsic, intermediate, mafic, or ultramafic
Igneous Rock Name:
Basalt, granite, etc.
Number
Texture
Composition
Igneous Rock Name
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Part 2 - Sedimentary Rocks
1. Sedimentary rocks are classified by the materials that most directly make up the rock. Briefly describe the three basic types of composition for sedimentary rocks.
Composition
Description
Clastic
Chemical
Organic
2. Using the website and your lecture notes, state the composition of each of the following types of rocks.
Rock
Composition
Sandstone
Coquina
Shale
Bituminous coal
Limestone
Conglomerate
3. Carbonate minerals, such as calcite (CaCO3) will undergo a chemical reaction with HCl to create CO2, which is a gas at room temperature. Therefore, when HCl is applied to these minerals, they will bubble or fizz. Considering which carbonates we have discussed, and which sedimentary rocks are made of these minerals, complete the chart below with which rocks you would expect to produce bubbles when you apply HCl.
Rock
Produce bubbling when HCl is applied?
Sandstone
Coquina
Shale
Bituminous coal
Limestone
Conglomerate
4. Complete the following table to identify the pictures of sedimentary rocks.
Composition:
clastic, chemical, or organic
Mineral Composition
(
for chemical sedimentary rocks only!
): state dominante mineral present
Reaction with HCl:
if reaction with HCl is expected, based on chemical composition
Sedimentary Rock Name:
sandstone, bituminous coal, e.
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Human Resource Information Management Model based on
Blockchain Technology
Xin Wang
School of Traffic and Transportation Management
Dalian Maritime University
Dalian, P. R. China
Libo Feng*, Hui Zhang
Digital Society & Blockchain Laboratory,
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
Beihang University
Beijing, P. R. China
Chan Lyu,
Assistant Professor, School of Business,
Macau University of Science and Technology
Macau, P. R. China
Li Wang Yue You
School of Economics and Management
Beihang University
Beijing, P. R. China
Abstract
The authenticity of human resource
information has become an important factor that
affects the cost and efficiency of human resource
management. With the rapid development of
mobile devices and Internet technology, various
human resource risks caused by information
asymmetry constantly bring economic loss, and
even a fatal blow, to enterprises. Based on
Blockchain(BC), this paper aims to combine
traditional encryption technology with Internet-
distributed technology, to establish a human
resource information management model that
reduces the risk of authenticity of human resource
information. This model aims to solve the lack of
discrimination of the authenticity of human
resource information, and to provide authentic and
effective decision support information to the
human resource management of an organization.
The operation method, such as Bitcoin, is used to
certify the human resource documentations, as
well as to bind the information and the
documentation. Furthermore, human resource
information is recorded in an accounting book
based on BC technology; thus, modifying and
validating may be difficult in the entire net work.
Consensus mechanism, smart contract, accounting,
and payment functions of BC can provide the basic
support for human resource information
management. Moreover, decentralization of the
protection mechanism can be achieved to achieve
low cost and high efficiency of information transfer,
and to ensure a.
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at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
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In this research, it concludes that while the readiness of teachers in Caloocan City to implement the MATATAG Curriculum is generally positive, targeted efforts in professional development, resource distribution, support networks, and comprehensive preparation can address the existing gaps and ensure successful curriculum implementation.
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This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Martin Wolf MARCH 24 2020 The coronavirus seeks only t.docx
1. Martin Wolf MARCH 24 2020
The coronavirus seeks only to replicate. We seek to halt that
replication. Unlike the virus, humans make
choices. This pandemic will pass into history. But the way in
which it passes will shape the world it leaves
behind. It is the first such pandemic for a century. And it comes
to a world that — unlike in 1918, when
the Spanish flu hit — has been at peace and enjoys
unprecedented wealth. We should be able to
manage it well. If we do not do so, this will be a turning point
for the worse. Making the right decisions
requires that we understand the options and their moral
implications. We now confront two
fundamental sets of choices: within our countries and across
borders. In high-income countries, the
biggest choice is how aggressively to halt transmission of the
virus. But we also need to decide who will
bear the costs of that choice and how. Some continue to argue
that it is wrong to force the economy
into a depression to suppress transmission of the virus. This,
2. they suggest, will cause unnecessary
disruption. If, instead, the virus is left to spread relatively
freely, we can achieve “herd immunity”,
sustain the economy and still focus resources on the vulnerable.
Yet it is not clear that the economy
would fare better under this relatively laissez faire “mitigation”
policy than under one of determined
“suppression”. Long before government-imposed lockdowns,
many people stopped travelling or going
to restaurants, cinemas or shops. Decisive action to suppress the
virus and follow up with testing and
tracking of new infections could well end the inevitable
economic slump even sooner than otherwise.
What seems quite certain is the global health system would fare
much better under suppression than
mitigation. Under the latter, argues the Imperial College Covid-
19 Response Team, the health systems of
the UK and US would be overwhelmed: large numbers of
predominantly old people would be left to die
untreated. It was presumably to prevent this from happening
across China that the government
suppressed the virus so fiercely in Hubei. Could a health
calamity that is unacceptable in China be
acceptable in the UK or US? Yet the critics are also right: it
3. will be impossible to close large parts of our
economies for very long. If suppression is to be tried, it must be
successful quickly and resurgence of the
virus must be throttled. Meanwhile, central banks and
governments must seek to keep as much of the
economy going as possible, preserve as much productive
capacity intact as possible and ensure that the
people, above all the vulnerable, are generously protected in
whatever way a country finds practical.
The solidarity between countries needs to be as strong as within
them. The financial instability and
looming recession (probably depression) we see coming will
inflict huge harm on emerging and
developing countries. The IMF states that investors have
already removed $83bn from emerging
economies. The fall in the prices of commodities, upon which
many emerging and developing countries
depend, is also deep. These countries must also grapple with the
domestic spread of the virus and the
weakening of their own domestic demand. Their ability to
manage these internal and external pressures
is limited. The outcome could be huge economic and social
disasters. The IMF itself already faces 80
requests for rapid financial support. The aggregate external
4. financing gaps of emerging and developing
countries are likely to be far beyond the IMF’s lending capacity.
These vulnerable countries will benefit if
high-income countries succeed in suppressing the disease and
rescuing their economies. But this will not
be true in the short run. Emerging and developing countries will
need much assistance. That will also
help every country’s economic recovery. The virus is a shared
challenge. So, too, is the coming global
slump. Practicality and the demands of solidarity justify
generous help. The same is true within the
eurozone. The defining characteristic of a currency union is that
individual members have given up the
insurance of fiscal autonomy and a sovereign currency in favour
of collective mechanisms. During the
global financial crisis, that largely failed a number of member
countries. Yet, in that case, a moralistic
argument could plausibly assert that it was in good part their
own fault. This pandemic is not anybody’s
fault. If the eurozone cannot show solidarity in such a crisis, its
failure will be neither forgotten nor
forgiven. The wounds will be deep, perhaps mortal. Without
visible solidarity in a crisis for which nobody
5. bears blame, the European project will be morally, maybe
practically, dead. Any cross-border aid
cannot, moreover, be purely financial. Medical help will be
needed too. A crucial step will be ending the
spate of export controls that are destroying medical supply
chains. Fortunately, the disease we now
confront is nothing like as bad as the plagues that repeatedly
devastated the lives of our ancestors. Yet it
is still something virtually no living person has experienced. It
is a practical challenge that must be met
with well-informed decisions. But it is also an ethical
challenge. We should recognise both aspects of the
decisions we must make. Do leaders project calm and use
reason? Do we defeat the disease, while
minimising the economic damage? Do we ensure that the
weakest people and countries are protected?
Do we choose solidarity over hostility and global responsibility
over inward-looking nationalism? Do we
seek to bequeath a better post-pandemic world, not a worse one?
Unlike viruses, human beings have
choices. Choose well.
6. INFLATIONARY CULTURE:
STEFAN ZWEIG'S WORLD OF YESTERDAY
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the
currency; the second is war. Both
bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But
both are the refuge of political and
economic opportunists.
Ernest Hemingway
Notes on the Next War
Introduction
Inflation in the twentieth century has become the object of
social and literary, as well as economic analysis,
as suggested by the quotation above. Like other economic
crises, inflation produces severe hardship and
political instability, creating in turn vast human tragedies. Thus
severe economic conditions disrupt social
and political, as well as financial and commercial life. It is the
human element of these crises that has
attracted writers such as Hemingway and Stefan Zweig. Yet
unlike the garden variety recessions and
unemployment, or even "moderate" inflation, hyperinflation--
the accelerating and uncontrolled explosion in
7. the money supply and prices-- creates a particularly devastating
and lasting effect on a nation's psyche.
The German experience with hyperinflation in 1923 eroded the
German people's confidence in the Weimar
Republic and paved the way for Hitler's rise to power. Yet even
after the second world war, the memories
of the 1923 hyperinflation created a strong and typically
German aversion to inflationary policies, even
those "moderately" excessive monetary policies that became a
common tool of stabilization measures
among governments in the wake of the "Keynesian Revolution."
In terms of its historical impact, the
German hyperinflation can be compared only with the Great
Depression for leaving its mark on current
economic policy. The main channel of its influence is the
Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) of the
European Community, which is dominated by German monetary
policy.
In 1922, the exchange rate of the German mark was 70 marks
per U.S. dollar. By November 1923, the
mark was trading at 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar. In a six-
month period from May to November 1923,
the annual inflation rate in Germany was 1.3 trillion percent.
The causes of this incredible situation have
8. been the subject of much economic study, but in general it was
the punitive burden of war reparations
imposed upon Germany after world war I that lay at the root of
the crisis. The German economy had been
severely weakened by the war and its aftermath; as a result the
economy could not generate output
sufficient to meet the requirements of the reparations demanded
by the victorious allies. Unable under
these conditions to borrow or to collect more taxes, the
government turned to the printing presses to meet
its obligations. A vicious circle of political instability, rapidly
declining confidence in the mark, and
greater expansion of the money supply followed, exacerbated by
events such as the assassination of
German foreign minister Walther Rathenau in June of that year,
described by Zweig below. The crisis
finally ended in November 1923 with the currency reform
implemented by Gustav Stresemann, but the
damage to the credibility of the Weimar Republic was
irreparable and the trust in its democratic institutions
was broken. The coming of the next economic crisis, the Great
Depression, left the way open for Hitler to
seize power.
9. Stefan Zweig was born in Vienna in 1881. His literary career
focused on biographies and literary and
psychological portraits of historical figures such as Erasmus
and Dostoyevsky, but also generated poetry,
essays, drama and novels. In his writings one senses above all
else a cosmopolitan dedication to European
culture; Zweig was steeped in the literary traditions of Austria,
Germany and France (he also translated
literary works from French into German). Like many German
and Austrian Jewish intellectuals of his time,
however, he was forced to leave his homeland by Hitler's racial
policies. This separation from his cultural
and literary roots proved to be devastating to Zweig. He finally
settled during the war years in Rio de
Janiero and managed to continue his writing, but under the
increasing burden of psychotic depression. His
last work, a memoire entitled The World of Yesterday, recalls
the Europe of the early twentieth century and
the events that destroyed it. In a sense they also destroyed
Zweig. Just after mailing the final manuscript to
his publisher in New York in 1942, Zweig and his wife carried
out a suicide pact that had evidently been
planned for months. The following passages represent both his
observations on the role of inflation in the
10. 2
crumbling of political and moral institutions, and his final
tribute to the civilization that he longed for
during his exile.
In the first passage, Zweig describes the famine and inflation
immediately following the first world war in
Austria. The second passage begins with a description of the
news of Rathenau's assassination in June,
1923, which helped to trigger the political instability that fueled
the hyperinflation of that year.
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY
by Stefan Zweig
(New York: Viking Press, 1943)
The Austrian Inflation
Every descent into the town at that period was a moving
experience; it was my first sight of the yellow and
dangerous eyes of famine. The bread crumbled into black
particles and tasted like pitch and glue, coffee
11. was a brew of roasted barley, beer like yellow water, chocolate
like colored sand and the potatoes were
frozen. Most people raised rabbits, in order not wholly to forget
the taste of meat; a young lad shot squirrels
in our garden for his Sunday dinner and well nourished dogs or
cats returned only seldom from lengthy
prowls. Such textiles as were for sale were no more than
specially treated paper, ersatz for an ersatz; men
crept about almost always dressed in old uniforms--even
Russian uniforms--which they had obtained from
some depot or hospital and in which more than one had already
died; trousers tailored from old sacks were
not uncommon. Every step through the street, where show-
windows had a plundered look, where decaying
houses shed crumbling mortar like scurf, where visibly
undernourished people painfully dragged
themselves to their work, served to trouble one's soul. Out in
the country the food situation was better; no
peasant-farmer allowed himself to be influenced by the general
breakdown of morale to sell his butter,
eggs, or milk at the legally prescribed "maximum prices." He
concealed his goods wherever he could and
waited at home for the highest bidder. This procedure gave rise
to the "black market." A man would set off
12. with an empty bag or two and go from farm to farm, sometimes
even taking the train to particularly
productive illicit sources of provisions which he would then
peddle in town at four and five times the cost
price. ln the beginning the peasants gloated over the shower of
paper money for which they had sold their
butter and eggs, and which made them profiteers. However,
when they brought their bursting wallets to
town to make purchases, they discovered to their exasperation
that while they had merely quintupled
normal prices, the scythe, the hammer, the kettle which they had
come to buy had meanwhile risen twenty
or fifty times in price. Thereafter they sought to exchange only
for manufactured goods and demanded
substance for substance, merchandise for merchandise; mankind
with its trenches having been content to
retrogress to cave-dweller times, it now dissolved the thousand-
year-old convention of money and reverted
to primitive barter. The whole country was seized with a
grotesque traffic. The city dwellers hauled out to
the farms whatever they could get along without-- Chinese
porcelain vases and rugs, sabers and rifles,
cameras and books, lamps and ornaments--thus, entering a
Salzburg peasant's home, one might be surprised
13. by a staring Indian Buddha or a rococo book case with French
leatherbound books of which the new
owners were particularly proud. "Genuine Leather! France!"
they bragged impressively. Substance,
anything but money, became the watchword. There were those
who had to take their wedding ring from
their finger or the leather belt from around their body merely to
keep that body alive.
Finally the authorities interfered to stop the subversive trade in
the execution of which none but the well-to-
do derived benefit; in every province cordons were thrown
around key points and illicit goods arriving by
train or bicycle were confiscated for the benefit of the
municipal food offices. The hoarders responded by
organizing nightly deliveries by lorry with Western desperado
accompaniment or by bribing inspectors,
themselves the fathers of hungry children; sometimes there were
real battles with revolvers and knives
which these youths, after four years of practice at the front,
knew how to use just as well as they knew the
approved military way of finding cover when in flight. The
chaos grew from week to week, the population
became more excited. The progressive devaluation of money
14. became increasingly manifest. The
neighboring states had substituted their new currency for the old
Austro-Hungarian notes, thus saddling
tiny Austria with the main burden, more or less, of redeeming
the old krone. The first sign of distrust was
the disappearance of hard money, for people tended to value a
bit of copper or nickel more highly than
mere printed paper. The government did its best to get
maximum note production from the printing presses,
3
following Mephistopheles' prescription, but it could not keep
pace with the inflation; then every city and
town, eventually every village, began to print its own
"emergency money" which neighboring villages
could reject and which, for the most part, was recognized to be
worthless and was thrown away. An
economist who knew how to describe graphically all the phases
of the inflation which spread from Austria
to Germany, would find it unsurpassed material for an exciting
novel, for the chaos took on ever more
fantastic forms. Soon nobody knew what any article was worth.
Prices jumped arbitrarily; a thrifty
15. merchant would raise the price of a box of matches to twenty
times the amount charged by his upright
competitor who was innocently holding to yesterday's quotation;
the reward for his honesty was the sale of
his stock within an hour, because the news got around quickly
and everybody rushed to buy whatever was
for sale whether it was something they needed or not. Even a
goldfish or an old telescope was "goods" and
what people wanted was goods instead of paper. The most
grotesque discrepancy developed with respect
to rents, the government having forbidden any rise; thus tenants,
the great majority, were protected but
property owners were the losers. Before long, a medium-size
apartment in Austria cost its tenant less for
the whole year than a single dinner; during five or ten years (for
the cancellation of leases was forbidden
even afterwards) the population of Austria enjoyed more or less
free lodgings. In consequence of this mad
disorder the situation became more paradoxical and unmoral
from week to week. A man who had been
saving for forty years and who, furthermore, had patriotically
invested his all in war bonds, became a
beggar. A man who had debts became free of them. A man who
respected the food rationing system
16. starved; only one who disregarded it brazenly could eat his fill.
A man schooled in bribery got ahead, if he
speculated he profited. If a man sold at cost price, he was
robbed, if he made careful calculation he yet
cheated. Standards and values disappeared during this melting
and evaporation of money; there was but one
merit: to be clever, shrewd, unscrupulous, and to mount the
racing horse instead of being trampled by it.
To top it all, during the financial whirlwind when Austrians
were deprived of every economic yardstick,
certain foreigners recognized how our misery might be made to
serve their purposes. The only thing that
remained stable within the land during the three years in which
the inflation progressed at accelerating
tempo was foreign currency. Because Austrian money melted
like snow in one's hand everyone wanted
Swiss francs or American dollars and foreigners in substantial
numbers availed themselves of the chance to
fatten on the quivering cadaver of the Austrian krone. Austria
was "discovered" and suffered a calamitous
"tourist season." Every hotel in Vienna was filled with these
vultures; they bought everything from
toothbrushes to landed estates, they mopped up private
collections and antique shop stocks before their
17. owners, in their distress, woke to how they had been plundered.
Humble hotel clerks from Switzerland, stenographers from
Holland, would put up in the deluxe suites of
the Ringstrasse hotels. Incredible as it may seem, I can vouch
for it as an eyewitness that Salzburg's first-
rate Hotel de l'Europe was occupied for a period by English
unemployed, who, because of Britain's
generous dole were able to live more cheaply at that
distinguished hostelry than in their slums at home.
Whatever was not nailed down, disappeared. The tidings of
cheap living and cheap goods in Austria spread
far and wide; greedy visitors came from Sweden, from France;
more Italian, French, Turkish and Rumanian
was spoken than German in Vienna's business district. Even
Germany, where the inflation started at a much
slower pace even if eventually to become a hundred thousand
times greater than Austria's, exploited our
shrinking krone to the advantage of her mark. Salzburg, a
border town, afforded me an opportunity to
observe these daily raids. Bavarians from neighboring villages
and cities poured into the little town by
hundreds and by thousands. They patronized the tailor, they had
their cars repaired, they consulted
18. physicians and bought their drugs. Munich business men mailed
their foreign letters and filed their cables
from Austria so as to pocket the saving in the rates. Then, at the
instigation of the German Government, a
border control was established to stop Germans from buying
their supplies in Salzburg where a mark
fetched seventy Austrian crowns. Merchandise coming from
Austria was strictly confiscated at the custom
house. One article, however, that could not be confiscated
remained free of duty: the beer in one's stomach.
And the beer-drinking Bavarians would watch the daily rate of
exchange to determine whether the falling
krone would allow them five or six or ten liters of beer in
Salzburg for the price of a single liter at home.
No more superb enticement could be imagined, and so they
would come in hordes with their wives and
children from nearby Freilassing and Reichenhall to enjoy the
luxury of gulping down as much beer as
belly and stomach would hold. Every night the railway station
was a veritable pandemonium of drunken,
bawling, belching humanity; some of them, helpless from
overindulgence, had to be carried to the train on
hand-trucks and then, with bacchanalian yelling and singing,
they were transported back to their own
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country. The merry Bavarians did not, to be sure, suspect how
terrible a revenge was in store for them. For,
when the krone was stabilized and the mark in turn plunged
down in astronomic proportions, it was the
Austrians who traversed the same stretch of track to get drunk
cheaply, and the spectacle was duplicated
but this time in the opposite direction. This beer war between
two inflations remains one of my oddest
recollections because it was a precise reflection, in grotesque
graphic miniature, of the whole insane
character of those years.
The strangest thing is that I cannot recall, however I may try,
how we kept house during that era, or in what
manner the Austrians kept on raising the thousands and tens of
thousands of kronen and the Germans, in
their turn, the millions which were daily needed to keep body
and soul together. Mysteriously enough, they
did raise them. Habits are acquired and the chaos became
normal to life. It stands to reason that one who
was not a witness would imagine that, at a time when an egg
20. cost what a fine motor-car used to cost (in
Germany eggs went up to four billion marks, the approximate
past value of all the real estate in Greater
Berlin), women must have been running wildly through the
streets with tousled hair, that shops were
deserted for lack of purchasing power and that theaters and
amusement places were surely empty.
Astonishingly enough, just the opposite was the case. The will
to pursue life was great enough to overcome
the instability of the currency. Financial chaos prevailed yet the
daily round seemed little affected. There
were widespread individual changes, such as those who had
wealth in the form of cash in bank or
government bonds became impoverished, speculators became
rich. But the balance-wheel maintained its
rhythm unconcerned with single fates, there was no standstill;
bakers baked bread, cobblers made boots,
authors wrote books, peasants sowed and reaped, trains ran on
schedule, the morning newspaper never
failed, and it was just the places of entertainment, bars, and
theaters, that were filled to capacity. The very
fact that what once represented the greatest stability--money--
was dwindling in value daily caused people
to assess the true values of life-work, love, friendships, art and
21. Nature the more highly, and the whole
nation lived more intensively and more buoyantly than ever
despite the catastrophe; young people went on
mountain tramps and returned healthily tanned, dance halls kept
going until late at night, new factories and
business enterprises sprang up. I don't think that I ever lived
and worked with greater zest than in those
years. Whatever had meant much to us in days gone by meant
even more now; at no time had we ever been
so devoted to art in Austria as in those years of chaos, because
the collapse of money made us feel that
nothing was enduring except the eternal within ourselves.
I shall never forget what an opera performance meant in those
days of direst need. For lack of coal the
streets were only dimly lit and people had to grope their way
through; gallery seats were paid for with a
bundle of notes in such dcnominations as would once have been
sufficient for a season's subscription to the
best box. The theater was not heated, thus the audience kept
their overcoats on and huddled together, and
how melancholy and gray this house was that used to glitter
with uniforms and costly gowns! There never
was any certainty that the opera would last into the next week,
22. what with the sinking value of money and
the doubts about coal deliveries; the desperation seemed doubly
great in this abode of luxury and imperial
abundance. The Philharmonic players were like gray shadows in
their shabby dress suits, undernourished
and exhausted by many privations, and the audience, too,
seemed to be ghosts in a theater which had
become ghostly. Then, however, the conductor lifted his baton,
the curtain parted and it was as glorious as
ever. Every singer, every musician did his best, his utmost, for
each had in mind that perhaps it might be
his last time in this beloved house. And we strained and
listened, receptive as never before, because
perhaps it was really the last time. That was the spirit in which
we lived, thousands of us, multitudes, giving
forth to the limit of our capacity in those weeks and months and
years, on the brink of destruction. Never
have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a
surge of life as at that period when our very
existence and survival were at stake.
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Germany: The Hyperinflation
23. On that day [in June, 1923], I was already in Westerland.
Hundreds of vacationists were bathing gaily in
the surf. Again, as on the day when the assassination of Franz
Ferdinand was announced, a band played to
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carefree people when, like white petrels, the newsboys stormed
over the boardwalk. "Walter Rathenau1
assassinated." A panic broke out and the tremor spread through
the whole Reich. Abruptly the mark
plunged down, never to stop until it had reached the fantastic
figures of madness, the millions, the billions
and trillions. Now the real witches' sabbath of inflation started,
against which our Austrian inflation with its
absurd enough ratio of l5,000 old to 1 of new currency had been
shabby child's play. To describe it in
detail, with its incredibilities, would take a whole book and to
readers of today it would seem like a fairy
tale. I have known days when I had to pay fifty thousand marks
for a newspaper in the morning and a
hundred thousand in the evening; whoever had foreign currency
to exchange did so from hour to hour,
24. because at four o'clock he would get a better rate than at three,
and at five o'clock he would get much more
than he had got an hour earlier. For instance, I sent a
manuscript to my publisher on which I had worked for
a year; to be on the safe side I asked for an advance payment of
royalties on ten thousand copies. By the
time the check was deposited, it hardly paid the postage I had
put on the parcel a week before; on street
cars one paid in millions, trucks carried the paper money from
the Reichsbank to the other banks, and a
fortnight later one found hundred thousand mark notes in the
gutter; a beggar had thrown them away
contemptuously. A pair of shoe laces cost more than a shoe had
once cost, no, more than a fashionable
store with two thousand pairs of shoes had cost before; to repair
a broken window more than the whole
house had formerly cost, a book more than the printer's shop
with a hundred presses. For a hundred dollars
one could buy rows of six-story houses on Kurfurstendamm, and
factories were to be had for the old
equivalent of a wheelbarrow. Some adolescent boys who had
found a case of soap forgotten in the harbor
disported themselves for months in cars and lived like kings,
selling a cake every day, while their parents,
25. formerly well-to-do, slunk about like beggars. Messenger boys
established foreign exchange businesses and
speculated in currencies of all lands. Towering over all of them
was the gigantic figure of the superprofiteer
Stinnes2. Expanding his credit and in thus exploiting the mark
he bought whatever was for sale, coal mines
and ships, factories and stocks, castles and country estates,
actually for nothing because every payment,
every promise became equal to naught. Soon a quarter of
Germany was in his hands and, perversely, the
masses, who in Germany always become intoxicated at a
success that they can see with their eyes, cheered
him as a genius. The unemployed stood around by the thousands
and shook their fists at the profiteers and
foreigners in their luxurious cars who bought whole rows of
streets like a box of matches; everyone who
could read and write traded, speculated and profited and had a
secret sense that they were deceiving
themselves and were being deceived by a hidden force which
brought about this chaos deliberately in order
to liberate the State from its debts and obligations. I have a
pretty thorough knowledge of history, but
never, to my recollection, has it produced such madness in such
gigantic proportions. All values were
26. changed, and not only material ones; the laws of the State were
flouted, no tradition, no moral code was
respected, Berlin was transformed into the Babylon of the
world. Bars, amusement parks, honky-tonks
sprang up like mushrooms. What we had seen in Austria proved
to be just a mild and shy prologue to this
witches' sabbath; for the Germans introduced all their
vehemence and methodical organization into the
perversion. Along the entire Kurfurstendamm powdered and
rouged young men sauntered and they were
not all professionals; every high school boy wanted to earn
some money and in the dimly lit bars one might
see government officials and men of the world of finance
tenderly courting drunken sailors without any
shame. Even the Rome of Suetonius had never known such
orgies as the pervert balls of Berlin, where
hundreds of men costumed as women and hundreds of women as
men danced under the benevolent eyes of
the police. In the collapse of all values a kind of madness
gained hold particularly in the bourgeois circles
which until then had been unshakeable in their probity. Young
girls bragged proudly of their perversion, to
1 Walther Rathenau (1867-1922): German statesman,
industrialist and philosopher, also founder of the
27. centrists German Democratic Party. As foreign minister, he
negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo, which ended
hostilities between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1922.
Reviled by right-wing groups as a "Jewish
conspirator" and for his dealings with the communist Soviet
government, he was assassinated by fascist
extremists. As a result, the German government enacted new
state security measures, which were
ironically used mainly to suppress left-wing groups, facilitating
the rise of national socialism (Nazism).
2 Hugo Stinnes (1870-1924): German industrialist. He pursued
strategies of vertical integration to create
huge industrial trusts controlling river and ocean barges and
steamers, coal and iron mines, factories and
power plants. Later acquisitions focused on timberlands,
insurance companies, paper manufacturing plants
and newspapers. Stinnes thus represented the trend in Germany
at the time towards unrestricted industrial
concentration, and opposed any efforts at government regulation
of industry. He was a member of the
Reichstag (Parliament) from 1920-1924.
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28. be sixteen and still under suspicion of virginity would have
been considered a disgrace in any school of
Berlin at that time, every girl wanted to be able to tell of her
adventures and the more exotic, the better. But
the most revolting thing about this pathetic eroticism was its
spuriousness. At bottom the orgiastic period
which broke out in Germany simultaneously with the inflation
was nothing more than feverish imitation;
one could see that these girls of the decent middle class families
much rather would have worn their hair in
a simple arrangement than in a sleek man's haircut, that they
would much rather have eaten apple pie with
whipped cream than drink strong liquor; everywhere it was
unmistakable that this over-excitation was
unbearable for the people, this being stretched daily on the rack
of inflation and that the whole nation, tired
of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little
security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated
the republic, not because it suppressed this wild freedom, but on
the contrary, because it held the reins too
loosely
Whoever lived through these apocalyptic months, these years,
disgusted and embittered, sensed the coming
29. of a counterblow, a horrible reaction. And behind the scenes,
smiling, there waited, watch in hand, those
same people who had driven the German nation into the chaos:
"The worse it is for the country, the better
for us." They knew that their hour was at hand. Around
Ludendorff3, more than around the then still
powerless Hitler, the counterrevolution was already
crystallizing openly; the officers whose epaulettes had
been torn off their shoulders organized in secret, the small
tradesmen who had been cheated out of their
savings silently closed ranks and aligned themselves in
readiness for any slogan that promised order.
Nothing was as fateful to the German Republic as the idealistic
attempt to give liberty not only to the
people but even to its enemies. For the German people, a
disciplined folk, did not know what to do with
their freedom and already looked impatiently toward those who
were to take it from them.
The day the German inflation ended (1924) could have become
a turning point in history when, as if at the
sound of a gong, each billion of artificially inflated marks was
exchanged for a single new mark, a norm
had been created. And, truly, the muddy tide with all its filth
and slime flowed back soon, the bars, the
30. honky-tonks disappeared, conditions became normal again,
everybody could now figure clearly how much
he had won, how much he had lost. The great majority, the
mighty masses, had lost. But the blame was laid
not on those who had caused the war but on those who with
sacrifice and without thanks had undertaken
the burden of reconstruction. Nothing ever embittered the
German people so much--it is important to
remember this-- nothing made them so furious with hate and so
ripe for Hitler as the inflation. For the war,
murderous as it was, had yet yielded hours of jubilation, with
ringing of bells and fanfares of victory. And,
being an incurably militaristic nation, Germany felt lifted in her
pride by her temporary victories; while the
inflation served only to make it feel soiled, cheated, and
humiliated; a whole generation never forgot or
forgave the German Republic for those years and preferred to
reinstate its butchers. But all of that was still
far away. On thc surface, in 1924 the wild phantasmagoria
seemed to have passed like a dance of will-o'-
the-wisps. It was day again, one saw one's way in and …
Finance Essay Questions
Use 200 – 250 words for each question. Ensure to answer the
whole question not partly. The files attached are for question 2
31. and 4.
1. Covered interest differentials and covered interest parity.
What motivates covered (as opposed to uncovered) borrowing
and investing strategy in international finance? Show how
market forces tend to cause the covered interest differential to
converge to zero, and what can prevent absolute convergence to
zero?
2. How has Coronavirus affected emerging market economies.
In terms of their output, attractiveness for foreign investment,
and exchange rates against the US dollar? What is the strongest
economic argument for making loans and aid available to these
countries during the crisis?
3. What are the advantages for an emerging market to be a
foreign direct investment host country? In your answer, address
the incentives for good economic governance, advantages over
other forms of capital flows, trade, domestic savings and
investment, and economic growth. Describe any potential
negative effects of FDI.
4. Based on the article by Stefan Zweig on the German
hyperinflation, describe how this event affected prices, the
nature of economic exchange, income distribution, and lifestyle
at the time. What role did foreign exchange play in the German
hyperinflation? What economic policy was required to end the
crisis?