Saving Xanadu's Economy - Spartacus and I

... the travel industry be next on the government bailout list? Not likely. Despite the woes over the decline in the economy, travel is down only slightly compared to previous years. In fact, according to a study by an independent group representing ... has weathered far worse declines in domestic travel than that suffered from the current economic crisis. While a lot of jobs have been lost and many have lost their homes or are in danger of losing their homes, it seems that the bulk of Americans are more plagued by the ... percent of international respondents to the same survey stated that...

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... down to those in full-time employment, the risk of losing one`s job will be a very real threat to more and more of us. To help encourage spending and inject life back into the economy, the retail industry recently asked the government for tax holiday periods, periods during which shoppers could buy items tax-free. The thinking behind this was that if more ... good were being purchased, prices could come down, and therefore more goods would be purchases once the taxes were applied again. However, the problem with this system is that consumers, hungry to go shopping again, could easily ru...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... medicine or treatment. No one expected him to do all this in four years. It was almost a given that we would give him eight. Then the mortgage industry crashed, and the economy tanked with it. Barack Obama will now have to spend at least his first four years putting American back to work, funding projects that are necessary, but were not at ... his dream. We will get better roads and structurally better schools. Maybe the tax code will get fixed, maybe not. A lot of what he dreamed he could make happen will have to wait. There will be no paying down the deficit, at least not anytime soo...

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... greatly differed for the three ethnic groups. Black households had $5,677 in wealth on average, Hispanic households had $6,325, and white households average $113,149 in wealth. Furthermore, unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics rose at a faster pace than for whites, according to a study by the Center for American Progress. At ... groups than for whites (The Huffington Post). "The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times of Hispanic households," wrote a market analyst (Chung). While these reports revealed some startling figures, they also pr...

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... Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner joined the group of supporters right before Lagarde was voted in (Rooney) "Minister Lagarde's exceptional talent and broad experience will provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy," Geithner said (Rooney). Lagarde will succeed Dominque Strauss-Kahn, who was recently arrested in New York for sexual assault. Lagarde ... is the first woman to hold this position and was selected by a consensus vote (Rooney), "I am deeply honored have the trust ... (Rooney). The fund was originally established ...

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... American Housing Conference, every 8 seconds someone turns 60. As it is, baby boomers make up about 37% of all U.S. households and 28% of the total population. And, as can be imagined, such a large segment will definitely have gargantuan impact on the economy, generally, and the housing market, specifically. In many ways, the baby boomers have dominated the real estate market since the 1970's when ... they bought their first homes, again in the 1980's when they began their families and bought larger, but relatively inexpensive houses, and again the 1990's when they built large houses, m...

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... new cell phone carrier dramatically improves their coverage all over a country. Suddenly that carrier is growing and the competitors are suffering. With the globalization of any economy, this simple market shift will be felt around the world. Collective action then, makes an individual's actions become ... amplified and extended, whether they realize it or not. To further illustrate this point, if one person at ... companies, a hegemony can support these violations much more so than an individual can. It logically follows that breaks in trade between a hegemony and another state - no ma...

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... U.S. in poverty, largely due to the social systems surrounding them. Job scarcity, poor living conditions that compound crime, violence, and drug abuse issues in these marginalized groups enhance an already problematic situation of basic survival in the American economy. From a gender standpoint, it is mostly women and their children in poverty. The social construction of the personalities of the poor encourage welfare reform ... and discourage the families involved in the welfare system. Those in poverty are used as scapegoats to describe the multitude of ... ...

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... OPEC business model as oil speculators are driving down the cost of a barrel of oil depending on the relative performance of the economy and key economic indicators throughout global economies. OPEC however still controls the demand curve for their products and can easily rise or drop production quickly, yet at this point with pricing being so capricious in nature, a rise or fall ... in oil production could actually lead to a member of OPEC no longer being able to underwrite their nations' operations. With so much uncertainty surrounding the price of petroleum products and the indices a...

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