Oil and the american economy

When Oil goes up, what is affected in the american economy and how? very briefly explain what happens (if anything) to each and why Consumption Investment Government Spending Imports Exports National Income Aggregate Supply Aggregate Demand Inflation Exchange Rates Interest Rates

Data sets for a economic concern

As an employee of the World Bank you have been asked to research the needs of two countries with a particular concern. I have picked Mexico and Argentina. The economic concern is industry. I need data sets for that concern. I need to know where to get the data sets. What is the relationship between the variable that you s ...continues

A New Economy

Beyond surfing on the web and exchanging emails, how has information technology helped create a New Economy?

Macroeconomic Principles and Policy

As a member of the Federal Reserve you are speaking with a group of newly elected members of Congress to explain your operations. The members of Congress have asked you to address the following issues. The Federal Reserve has traditionally conducted open market operations through the purchase and sale of government bonds. In ...continues

Trade Imbalance or Trade Deficit

Is a trade deficit bad for the US economy?

The New Economy

1)Take a look at the Productivity Growth Rate over the last 20 years and over the last 5 years , and explain the macro-economic implications such as Potential GDP, GDP growth, inflation, etc. Explain the implications for the thresholds that economic policy makers look at, in particular the speed limit that the federal reserve pu ...continues

NAFTA vs Comparative Advantage

Explain unequivocally why the foundation of trade has nothing to do with absolute advantage and only the law of comparative advantage is relevant. Isn't free trade good for two countries even if one of them has an absolute advantage (in terms of low costs and productivity) in all goods and services produced?

NAFTA - Getting some information straight helps do a more thorough analysis of the issue

Getting some information straight helps do a more thorough analysis of the issue. You need to back them up with some more specific hard facts and a couple of economic principles that apply to NAFTA. These facts and economic principles have the same implications for free trade in general. 1)What was the Unemployment Rate in 1 ...continues

Gantt Chart

Show a gantt chart that displays possible processes involved in developing or starting a website, preferrably a website for a modeling agency where they will showcase individuals profiles, there bio, photos etc. Try and include at least 7-10 steps of things or processes in an order. Example, you would not list software developme ...continues

Macro Economics - money supply (and money base) in an economy

Given that money supply (and money base) in an economy increases as companies borrow from banks, does a decrease (or increase) in oil prices not affect the growth of an economy. - if the price of oil goes down, won't companies borrow less to expand , thereby allowing less new money to be created? Alternatively, if oil prices ...continues