Economic question.
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Sweetness... I love this new design. How long has it been up? I need to start visiting CP more often. My economics instructor is asking students to brainstorm some important economic issues. I'd be glad if anyone could pitch in to the following prompt: "For this assignment I would like you to brainstorm with your friends and co- workers. What should be our most important priorities to encourage economic growth and stability? How might we go about achieving this goal? All I'm looking for is a list of issues and a very short description of what they are and why they are important." Alex Korchemniy
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Sweetness... I love this new design. How long has it been up? I need to start visiting CP more often. My economics instructor is asking students to brainstorm some important economic issues. I'd be glad if anyone could pitch in to the following prompt: "For this assignment I would like you to brainstorm with your friends and co- workers. What should be our most important priorities to encourage economic growth and stability? How might we go about achieving this goal? All I'm looking for is a list of issues and a very short description of what they are and why they are important." Alex Korchemniy
Tax cuts. Proven to stimulate economic activity.
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Sweetness... I love this new design. How long has it been up? I need to start visiting CP more often. My economics instructor is asking students to brainstorm some important economic issues. I'd be glad if anyone could pitch in to the following prompt: "For this assignment I would like you to brainstorm with your friends and co- workers. What should be our most important priorities to encourage economic growth and stability? How might we go about achieving this goal? All I'm looking for is a list of issues and a very short description of what they are and why they are important." Alex Korchemniy
Well, to prevent a large-scale economic implosion people should keep some of their earnings and not get into debt ---so basically people should learn to manage their money. Many would probably flame me for the 1st comment, but it's true...and the 2nd thing i was gonna say is something should be done about the education "industry"...that includes the colleges AND the financial institutions that specialize in student loans. I mean they basically canibalize their customers, especially those students who don't have money in the first place. College students borrow money to go to school to get ahead in the the work place, but then they might not recieve a pay raise that would justify the education spending PLUS the money they lose by not being able to work full time. But anyway, i'm talking about long-term growth and stability Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
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Well, to prevent a large-scale economic implosion people should keep some of their earnings and not get into debt ---so basically people should learn to manage their money. Many would probably flame me for the 1st comment, but it's true...and the 2nd thing i was gonna say is something should be done about the education "industry"...that includes the colleges AND the financial institutions that specialize in student loans. I mean they basically canibalize their customers, especially those students who don't have money in the first place. College students borrow money to go to school to get ahead in the the work place, but then they might not recieve a pay raise that would justify the education spending PLUS the money they lose by not being able to work full time. But anyway, i'm talking about long-term growth and stability Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI think you got some great points. I think that the rule of one price is strongly driving our currency down. We need to innovate and education should be a high priority. Alex Korchemniy
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I think you got some great points. I think that the rule of one price is strongly driving our currency down. We need to innovate and education should be a high priority. Alex Korchemniy
Alex Korchemniy wrote:
We need to innovate and education should be a high priority.
I like your point and it stands true in almost any context. In fact you summarised what is the essence of progress -- innovation and education. Lack thereof results in what we call the Dark Ages, an economic, social and intelectual standstill. But a point i unfortunately have to make is that what i have said in my prior post was not something i can keep at an arms lenght and just coldly analyse like i would look at the stock market, but instead it's something that i can never let rest in the back of my mind... I always remember that i would probably not get a chance to go college, because one -- neither i nor my family are ready for that financially, while i'm still in high school, which means working and saving for either - a car, funds for a rainy day (such as unemployment, a bodily injury, etc) future rent/utilities/food/savings(or perhaps even a down-payment on a house, since a lot of times rent is higher than a mortgage, and paying rent also means you will never see that money again)...OR the college tuition, which will in fact mean i might lose a job because i won't fit their schedule or simply have to cut back on hours, AND the money i would have saved would be gone too. With outsourcing in the picture my degree/certification might actually equal so many years of experience, and it would be financially sound to work and insted of spending the earnings on the degree. Keep them instead because they might total the dollar amount a pay raise for being more "qualified" would bring in. Two -- the honor students i've seen, as well as other scholarship recipients are also the ones whose parents are higher on the socioeconomic scale and can afford to let their kids study and not have to worry about their finances. If that applies to you, please don't be offended, i'm simply being blunt in providing a look from the other side. But i'll still stand by my observation that the rich kids can spend enough time studying that they get the honors and a few grand in scholarships for supposedly being good citizens and so forth, but the common folks that can still qualify for the same things if they had the chance, don't have the chance. Because they don't have the time for heavy academic work and their work is a full time job and they don't have the money to pay for things like AP exams...they instead have bills to pay. Fairness is relative. Roswell
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Sweetness... I love this new design. How long has it been up? I need to start visiting CP more often. My economics instructor is asking students to brainstorm some important economic issues. I'd be glad if anyone could pitch in to the following prompt: "For this assignment I would like you to brainstorm with your friends and co- workers. What should be our most important priorities to encourage economic growth and stability? How might we go about achieving this goal? All I'm looking for is a list of issues and a very short description of what they are and why they are important." Alex Korchemniy
1. Cut Tax to _reasonable_ level 2. Encourage Innovation 3. Address monopolies 4. Ensure good reliable public services Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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1. Cut Tax to _reasonable_ level 2. Encourage Innovation 3. Address monopolies 4. Ensure good reliable public services Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
Ray, Do low rates of income tax and good, reliable public services mix? It could be argues that good, reliable public services, particularly health, are a bottomless pit for public money. Perhaps we should argue for low rates of income tax and healthy competition rules. Regards Sluice.
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Well, to prevent a large-scale economic implosion people should keep some of their earnings and not get into debt ---so basically people should learn to manage their money. Many would probably flame me for the 1st comment, but it's true...and the 2nd thing i was gonna say is something should be done about the education "industry"...that includes the colleges AND the financial institutions that specialize in student loans. I mean they basically canibalize their customers, especially those students who don't have money in the first place. College students borrow money to go to school to get ahead in the the work place, but then they might not recieve a pay raise that would justify the education spending PLUS the money they lose by not being able to work full time. But anyway, i'm talking about long-term growth and stability Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAstudent loans are pegged very close to inflation. Excepting promotional gimics they're the closest you'll ever get to free money. It's the creditcard debts that need to be avoided. I'm a bad CC user, got a cahsback card and pay my balance in full every month. I'm only earning them ~1% in transcation fees, not 10-30% in intrest and penalty fees.
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Well, to prevent a large-scale economic implosion people should keep some of their earnings and not get into debt ---so basically people should learn to manage their money. Many would probably flame me for the 1st comment, but it's true...and the 2nd thing i was gonna say is something should be done about the education "industry"...that includes the colleges AND the financial institutions that specialize in student loans. I mean they basically canibalize their customers, especially those students who don't have money in the first place. College students borrow money to go to school to get ahead in the the work place, but then they might not recieve a pay raise that would justify the education spending PLUS the money they lose by not being able to work full time. But anyway, i'm talking about long-term growth and stability Roswell
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAtelling people to do what's right is a never win situation. You might get %10 of the population to follow that. The only way to trully change behavior is with incentives (ie, lower taxes creates more desire to work because they get more of the benefits of that work as well as allows them to spend productively into the economy). For that matter, the education thing is severely overblown. The fact is that the incentive to get a good education is directly tied to the economic benefits someone will see after they get that education. How many people do you think would study to be a doctor if doctors got paid minimum wage (not many). It's all about the incentives on the individual that make people do things on the large scale.
