The unemployment figures can be explained partially in that unemployment is considered to be a lagging indicator. Inflation, however, is not a lagging indicator. As such, it would be expected to increase if the economy was increasing strongly, given that interest rates are very low. Not only is inflation not increasing, but it is decreasing, and long-term interest rates do not indicate that that the U.S. needs to be concerned with inflationary pressure either. The case for fiscal stimulus is that government spending is going to increase the GDP. Given the equation GDP = C + I + G + X -- M, we can understand that consumer expenditures are going to remain relatively low in the current economy as the result of the high rate of unemployment. Business investment might be expected to increase given the low interest rates, but that has yet to materialize. Two factors influencing that are the expensive dollar, relative to the euro certainly and the yuan, which the Chinese government is holding artificially low to spur Chinese exports....
These currency influences stunt U.S. exports while encouraging U.S. imports. GDP increases, therefore, can be understood to be coming largely via increases in imports. The need for stimulus is therefore to spur domestic consumption, which ideally would serve to stimulate business investment given the low rates. Fiscal stimulus would therefore increase the GDP directly, and ideally would have spinoff effects that would increase C, I and E. As well, pushing growth beyond the limited growth currently associated with M.
Macroeconomic Analysis Economically, recession is described as a significant drop in economic activity over a short period of time usually a few months (bbc news, 2008). Gross Domestic Product (GDP), household income and other macro-economic indicators drop while others such as unemployment and bankruptcy rises. Recession can be caused by many factors e.g an external trade shock or the burst of an economic bubble such as the United States housing bubble.
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In terms of size, the largest stock market is, by far, represented by NYSE, which trades the highest volumes of shares and which has the highest value of the transactions. The New York Stock Exchange and the Brazilian Exchange are both companies created as a result of mergers between two other entities, namely Sao Paolo Stock Exchange and the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange in the case of BM&F Bovespa
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Foreign currency and macroeconomic analysis on the material currency against the U.S. dollar over the 5-year period ending with 2010. Imagine studying what is going on with currency in the world today, especially with what is going on outside and within the United States. What will one discover through this research? Has the dollar improved or become worse over the years? By learning various coinage, one is able to grasp ways
With Iraq opened up, companies from the U.S. could benefit from an expanding market, with natural resources and qualified, cheap labor. The result is, however, that the current security environment is unstable, which means that the U.S. companies are only benefiting in a limited manner from the potential advantages of the market. As a conclusion and result of the cost-benefit analysis, it seems that the war in Iraq had, in
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